LOS ANGELES Here’s a look at the most anticipated Los Angeles restaurants, hotels, party rooms, corporate event venues, museums, and arenas to open this year. These new and renovated Los Angeles venues can accommodate groups large or small for private and corporate events, meetings, business dinners, cocktail parties, conferences, weddings, and more.

1. The new Broad museum of contemporary art will be located downtown on Grand Avenue. The new Diller Scofidio & Renfro 120,000-square-foot design is slated for a late 2014 opening, and general admission entry will be free to the public. The Broad will feature a third-floor gallery with nearly an acre of column-free space to display artwork from the 2,000-work Broad collections. And the first-floor lobby will include a gallery for special exhibitions, bringing the total gallery space in the museum to more than 50,000 square feet. –