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The plan suggests a stronger connection between Broadway and the “City” and “Markets” districts.  It sets out architectural and program ideas for Broadway as an arts and entertainment center. The building is located at a cultural juncture, a “wall” between a high cost, high density, business-oriented “city” and industrial, old and badly used, low cost “markets”.  An open lot on the block connecting Perching Square and Broadway was chosen as to reinforce the cultural axis from the Los Angeles Library to the activities of Broadway and the cultural elements in the southern part of it.  The public activities of the square and the cultural activities of the building would be seen as to reinforce the other and thus create a sense of place.