The Broadway Federal Midtown office, designed by acclaimed architect Paul R. Williams, opened in 1966. Williams was also a co-founder of the institution, which was established in 1946 alongside dentist and community leader Dr. H. Claude Hudson, real estate broker H. A. Howard, businesswoman Zella King Taylor, attorney and future judge Thomas L. Griffith, businessman Albert Maddox, and others to serve underserved communities. The organization became Broadway Federal Bank in 1995 and merged with City First Bank in 2021, forming the largest Black-led Minority Depository Institution in the United States.
In 2019, we began restoring the building’s original façade as part of the conversion of a vacant 4,779-square-foot bank into a 6,800-square-foot restaurant. The project focused on reinstating key architectural elements, including the transparent windows and distinctive double-height exterior columns, reconstructed to meet current safety codes while preserving the building’s original character. New rear additions were incorporated to achieve the required square footage without altering the historic street presence along Venice Boulevard.
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