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The 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill
3 weeks, 5 days ago

The 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill

NPR  

The 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill NPR's Scott Simon talks with Jonathan Lane, of the consortium Revolution 250, about why the Battle of Bunker Hill won't be reenacted at Bunker Hill to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: June 17, 1775 - the Battle of Bunker Hill, a major conflict in the American …

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After Los Angeles County bought a skyscraper, a fight over whether to tear down its historic headquarters
1 month ago

After Los Angeles County bought a skyscraper, a fight over whether to tear down its historic headquarters

LA Times  

Los Angeles County’s headquarters, the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration, was completed in 1960 in the downtown Civic Center. Then, she said, “it was revealed” that the plan was to move the Board of Supervisors offices and county services to the Gas Co. Tower, and ultimately demolish the Hall of Administration. “The building can and should be saved.” The Hall …

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L.A. County to buy downtown skyscraper for new HQ despite a “hell no” from Hahn
2 months, 1 week ago

L.A. County to buy downtown skyscraper for new HQ despite a “hell no” from Hahn

LA Times  

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday approved the county’s purchase of the Gas Company Tower, one of downtown L.A.’s most prominent skyscrapers, paving the way for the transfer of thousands of workers and public services out of the city’s civic center. “It’s a perfect time to take advantage of some of these more or less empty office …

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City officials ignored neighbors’ warnings in Chinatown. Then fire erupts at abandoned construction site
4 months ago

City officials ignored neighbors’ warnings in Chinatown. Then fire erupts at abandoned construction site

LA Times  

Wei Xiong Liang, center, and other residents stand outside their fire-damaged apartment building on Bunker Hill Avenue in Chinatown. Neighbors say their fears came true after a fire in a large apartment building in the Chinatown neighborhood early Friday left six people injured, including two firefighters, and temporarily displaced dozens of families. VIDEO | 00:09 Neighbors on Bunker Hill Avenue …

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SoCalGas to move from its longtime headquarters in downtown Los Angeles
4 months ago

SoCalGas to move from its longtime headquarters in downtown Los Angeles

LA Times  

A view of Bunker Hill in downtown Los Angeles shows the Gas Company Tower to the left of the tallest building, U.S. Bank Tower. SoCalGas announced plans to move its offices from the Gas Company Tower to Two California Plaza. Southern California Gas Co. is planning to move from its longtime headquarters after signing the largest office lease of the …

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Downtown L.A. is hurting. Frank Gehry thinks arts can lead a revival
9 months ago

Downtown L.A. is hurting. Frank Gehry thinks arts can lead a revival

LA Times  

A pedestrian walks past Walt Disney Concert Hall on a sunny April morning in downtown Los Angeles, where two major expansions of cultural institutions are in the works. Bunker Hill will soon have the largest concentration of buildings designed by Frank Gehry in the world and promises to become a cultural center “like no other place,” the architect told the …

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Frank Gehry-designed performing arts center at the Colburn School is under construction
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Frank Gehry-designed performing arts center at the Colburn School is under construction

LA Times  

One of architect Frank Gehry’s long-standing wishes is finally coming to life: a new concert venue in downtown Los Angeles that will complement his famous Walt Disney Concert Hall. The long-planned Colburn School addition will be the third Gehry-designed building on Bunker Hill, which already has Disney Concert Hall and the Grand LA, a $1-billion apartment, hotel and retail complex …

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As high-rise offices lose their luster, can this part of downtown L.A. find a way forward?
1 year, 6 months ago

As high-rise offices lose their luster, can this part of downtown L.A. find a way forward?

LA Times  

As the pandemic shut down office life in Los Angeles’ downtown financial district, Claude Cognian tried to keep his gastropub Public School 213 open. “If the homeless situation doesn’t get solved in some fashion that allows tourists, office workers and businesses to operate, it’s just going to bring down the area.” Real estate broker Derrick Moore of CBRE, who specializes …

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East L.A. to Santa Monica in 1 hour 9 minutes: A look inside Metro’s new Regional Connector
1 year, 7 months ago

East L.A. to Santa Monica in 1 hour 9 minutes: A look inside Metro’s new Regional Connector

LA Times  

Metro Chief Executive Stephanie Wiggins, Metro executives, board members and elected officials take a “sneak peek” ride on Monday on the new Regional Connector set to open June 16. Metro Chief Executive Stephanie Wiggins speaks during a “sneak peek” ride Monday on the new Regional Connector set to open soon. Metro train operator Glenda Murrell, who has worked for Metro …

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Inside Frank Gehry’s latest Los Angeles mega-project
2 years, 6 months ago

Inside Frank Gehry’s latest Los Angeles mega-project

LA Times  

As his latest Los Angeles mega-project neared completion, Frank Gehry was offered an apartment with sweeping views high up in the 45-story Grand LA complex he designed on Bunker Hill in downtown. Disney Hall doesn’t look like an outlier.” VIDEO | 02:57 Frank Gehry gives a tour of the $1-billion mixed-use complex, the Grand Frank Gehry gives a tour of …

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‘A bet on downtown Los Angeles.’ Huge Angels Landing project wins key city OK
2 years, 9 months ago

‘A bet on downtown Los Angeles.’ Huge Angels Landing project wins key city OK

LA Times  

Rendering of Angels Landing, a $1.6-billion hotel, apartment, condominium and retail complex that city officials have approved for construction in downtown Los Angeles. The developers said Monday that city planning officials approved Angels Landing’s so-called entitlements to build, a major hurdle the project had to clear on the way toward completion before the 2028 Olympics. Rendering of Angels Landing, right, …

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You know Angels Flight. But what about L.A.’s other funicular railways?
3 years, 7 months ago

You know Angels Flight. But what about L.A.’s other funicular railways?

LA Times  

A postcard that dates to around 1910 shows the incline railway on Catalina Island. A postcard of the summit of Lookout Mountain — reached via the Laurel Canyon Trackless Trolley — quotes an L.A. Times editorial saying it wasn’t famous yet, but it sure would be. That’s how L.A. came to have — and also to plan but never build …

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The $1-billion bet that people will return to downtown L.A. after COVID
4 years, 4 months ago

The $1-billion bet that people will return to downtown L.A. after COVID

LA Times  

The Grand, a $1-billion towering collection of apartments, stores, restaurants, movie theaters and a luxury hotel in downtown L.A. across the street from the Walt Disney Concert Hall, left, has reached the halfway mark as construction carries on through the pandemic. Most of us believe the world will never be the same.” The goal is to make public spaces at …

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Kangaroo Island before-and-after photos show bushfire destruction as national park reopens
4 years, 10 months ago

Kangaroo Island before-and-after photos show bushfire destruction as national park reopens

ABC  

An unstoppable and devastating bushfire broke out on Kangaroo Island at the end of December last year, and in the weeks that followed the fire emergency only worsened. Instructions: Use left and right arrow keys to control image transition Before and after images SLIDE The Bunker Hill lookout on Kangaroo Island after the fire. The Chase Cafe at Flinders Chase …

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L.A.’s Music Center was built as an aloof city on a hill. Can a remade plaza change that?
5 years, 4 months ago

L.A.’s Music Center was built as an aloof city on a hill. Can a remade plaza change that?

LA Times  

In 1964, when the first phase of the Music Center — the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion — opened in downtown Los Angeles, designer and painter Millard Sheets wrote a tribute to architect Welton Becket’s Modernist temple to the arts in the pages of The Times: “They have created a form that will stand high on the hill and high in spirit …

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Eli Broad looks back at the evolution of L.A.’s most important arts hub
5 years, 7 months ago

Eli Broad looks back at the evolution of L.A.’s most important arts hub

LA Times  

Introduction Entrepreneur and philanthropist Eli Broad has been compared to Lorenzo de’ Medici, a patron without peer who has played major roles at arts institutions throughout Los Angeles. Here Broad looks back at the creation and development of MOCA, the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Broad museum — which have reinvigorated Grand Avenue and downtown and elevated the city’s …

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Explore the past, present and future of downtown L.A.’s Grand Avenue
5 years, 7 months ago

Explore the past, present and future of downtown L.A.’s Grand Avenue

LA Times  

Walk the length of Grand Avenue from Temple to 5th Street, and you’ll encounter one of the most vital arts hubs in the city. Travis Geske / For The Times City of angels, city of culture Los Angeles Times executive editor Norman Pearlstine shares his impressions of the Grand Avenue project in downtown Los Angeles. How Grand Avenue elevated L.A.'s …

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Bunker Hill once was a neighborhood. Then progress came to town
5 years, 7 months ago

Bunker Hill once was a neighborhood. Then progress came to town

LA Times  

Hugh and Kim Grace stand atop a barren Bunker Hill in 1973 and pretend to touch the top of City Hall in the distance. The Music Center, which opened in stages, starting in 1964 — around the same time the city was bulldozing the last boarding houses that sheltered elderly and immigrants — has been described as the project that …

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Timeline: How Bunker Hill transformed Los Angeles and Grand Avenue
5 years, 7 months ago

Timeline: How Bunker Hill transformed Los Angeles and Grand Avenue

LA Times  

Grand Avenue is home to a cluster of architectural and artistic achievements that attract millions of people a year, locals and tourists whose energy carries the promise of a vibrant urban center on Bunker Hill. The city’s Community Redevelopment Agency studied how to redevelop 135 acres of the Bunker Hill neighborhood “classified by local and federal authorities as a slum …

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Developers of Grand Avenue’s Gehry project say work will begin this month now that financing is secured
6 years, 2 months ago

Developers of Grand Avenue’s Gehry project say work will begin this month now that financing is secured

LA Times  

Related Cos. has secured construction financing for the Grand, a nearly $1-billion complex with apartments, condominiums, theaters, restaurants and shops. Since Related Cos. first got the contract in 2004 to build the massive Grand Avenue project, there’s been a housing boom and bust, a financial crisis and a new explosion of residential construction downtown. “We look forward to celebrating with …

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From the Archives: The Castle on Bunker Hill
6 years, 4 months ago

From the Archives: The Castle on Bunker Hill

LA Times  

The 1960s Bunker Hill redevelopment forced the removal of many Victorian-era homes. A story in the May 18, 1964, Los Angeles Times reported: "The Castle," a faded former mansion atop Bunker Hill, has been given a new lease on life. The Castle, along with the Salt Box — another landmark Bunker Hill home — were moved in March 1969 to …

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