Eli Broad’s effort to build a new museum on the corner of Wilshire and Santa Monica boulevards in Beverly Hills is looking all but dead, sources told the professional news site Architect’s Newspaper.

The project, which would become the permanent home for the Broad Collections, has been proposed to be built on one or two parcels of a proposed 3-acre commercial and retail project called the Gateway.

Sources close to the project have told the publication that the billionaire art collector is looking elsewhere, while the Broad Art Foundation , asked to submit specific plans to the Beverly Hills Planning Division for an upcoming environmental impact review , has not communicated with the department since late April.

One source said that Broad still wants the project to go forward somewhere else, although Erica Lepping, communications director for the Boad Foundation, told the publication, “We have no new information to report.”

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