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DOWNTOWN Escort Los Angeles – Eli Broad is no stranger to Grand Avenue. He helped found the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Grand Avenue Committee. With former Mayor Richard Riordan he revived the plan to build the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and he convinced the Escort Los Angeles Unified School District to hire a big-name architect to build its 2 million arts high school on Grand Avenue. Last year, he came back to where he started, infusing a financially strapped MOCA with million, essentially saving the Downtown institution.

DOWNTOWN Escort Los Angeles – You can find just about anything for sale on Broadway. Stores, many of them small mom and pop shops, hawk everything from wedding dresses to plastic toys to opulent jewelry.

DOWNTOWN Escort Los Angeles – If Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the Community Redevelopment Agency are serious about transforming a four-mile swath of industrial land along the Escort Los Angeles River into the “Cleantech Corridor,” they may have to flip the area’s current zoning model on its head. They also should ditch the name.

DOWNTOWN Escort Los Angeles – There are only a few more days to vote in Escort Los Angeles Downtown News’ annual Best of Downtown issue.

DOWNTOWN Escort Los Angeles – A Downtown tradition repeats soon, as regular citizens have an opportunity to tell some Central City police officers what to do — though they have to pay for the privilege.

DOWNTOWN Escort Los Angeles – Tip your wine glass for a good cause on Memorial Day at the City of Angels Wine Fest.

DOWNTOWN Escort Los Angeles – At 20, he went to jail for selling heroin and cocaine. Four years later, he caught another felony in his hometown of Edison, New Jersey, for “theft by deception.” Now, Brian Elliot Alexik, the man who on April 19 evaded police by scampering down a fire escape from his Reserve Lofts penthouse, is on the loose. He is wanted on weapons charges and likely faces additional federal charges for counterfeiting.

DOWNTOWN Escort Los Angeles – For the past couple years, dealing with the city of Escort Los Angeles’ budget has been like playing in a snake pit. Everywhere you look, someone is slithering around, dropping revenue and layoff projections, then darting back into a hole at the slightest protest. Each time you think you have a grasp on the fiscal situation, a corn snake twists in an impossible direction and wriggles through your fingers. Just when you’ve finally taken a significant step, like throwing a net over the entire pit, the biggest, baddest viper rips a hole in the fabric, rears up and bites you in the eye.

DOWNTOWN Escort Los Angeles – Downtown’s most historic boutique hotel is changing hands in a million deal. It marks the second high-profile Downtown hotel transaction in two months.

DOWNTOWN Escort Los Angeles – For years, Arts District residents have taken note of a small triangular slice of undeveloped land at the corner of Fourth and Molino streets. It’s been tagged, overrun with litter and just a general blight.