Broadway Bar Sparks Downtown Night Life
Downtown Los Angeles’ night life is revving up with the surge of loft dwellers taking up residence in the area. One of those capitalizing on the situation is nightclub owner Cedd Moses, who just opened his second downtown bar, The Broadway Bar, at 830 S. Broadway, near Eighth Street.
Moses—who owns the popular Golden Gopher, located at 417 W. Eighth St., as well as Los Angeles bars 4100, Liquid Kitty, Cobra Lily and Cobras & Matadors—said he had the fashion industry in mind when he opened his Broadway night spot.
Champagne cocktails are the specialty of the house. There is giant neon signage, wallpaper and an upstairs mezzanine that offers full views of the floor below.
“It’s definitely old school,” Moses said. “We’ve geared it for the fashion industry. It’s set up for private parties. We even plan on having ’fashion happy hours.’”
The ambiance has been described as a little bit of Las Vegas with a taste of Jack Dempsey’s of New York. Moses helped create the concept with noted designer Ricki Kline and partnered with Joe Baxley to finance the project.
The 4,000-square-foot establishment is open from 5 p.m. until 2 a.m. daily and is closed on Sundays.
“They did a great job with it,” said landlord Steve Needleman, principal of Anjac Fashion Properties. “It’s a little bit of the old but hip enough to draw in the crowds from the area.”
Moses has several other projects in the works. Most answer the growing downtown residential element’s demand for night life. Residential projects such as the Orpheum Lofts a few doors down from the Broadway Bar and Santee Court on Los Angeles Street have brought a lot of single and married professionals downtown, an area that until recently had been sparsely populated after the evening rush hour.
“There’s going to be a huge residential influx here,” Moses said. “The people that are moving in are generally young, single and work in fashion, architecture, do Web sites.”
Moses is the head of 213 Ventures, which has a number of other downtown Los Angeles night spots planned, including Seven Grand, at Seventh Street and Grand Avenue. The club, being built at the old Clifton’s cafeteria site, will include a steakhouse and whiskey bar when it is completed at the end of the year. Also on tap is The Neptune Bar, a rooftop bar at Third and Alameda streets that is set to open in spring 2006.
For information, visit www.thebroadwaybar.net. —Robert McAllister
