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Bunker Hill, in the downtown area of Los Angeles, California, is a short, developed hill with its peak located roughly around 3rd Street. It is located directly east of the Harbor Freeway. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (3072x2304, 3548 KB) Bunker Hill in downtown Los Angeles as seen from Los Angeles City Hall. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (3072x2304, 3548 KB) Bunker Hill in downtown Los Angeles as seen from Los Angeles City Hall. ... Los Angeles City Hall is the center of government in the city of Los Angeles, California. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Nickname: Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: , State County Settled 1781 Incorporated April 4, 1850 Government - Type Mayor-Council - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo - Governing body City Council Area - City 498. ... 3rd Street in Los Angeles is a major east/west street. ... The Harbor Freeway goes under many bridges as it passes through downtown Los Angeles The Harbor Freeway is one of the principal north-south freeways in Los Angeles County, California. ...

Due to the skyscrapers built on it, the hill stands out from the rest of the L.A. basin and is synonymous with downtown as far as most people are concerned. A handful of skyscrapers have been built within the downtown area but away from Bunker Hill; examples include the SBC Tower (partially owned by retired NBA player and now businessman Magic Johnson; formerly known as the Transamerica Tower) near the Santa Monica Freeway. SBC Communications NYSE: SBC is an American telecommunications company based in San Antonio, Texas. ... Earvin Effay Johnson, Jr. ... Transamerica Corporaion is an insurance and investment company in the United States. ... Interstate 10; the Santa Monica Freeway segment is highlighted in red and the San Bernardino Freeway is highlighted in blue. ...

History

Early development

In 1867, a wealthy developer, Prudent Beaudry, purchased a majority of the hill's land. Because of the hill's excellent views of the Los Angeles Basin and the then-attractive Los Angeles River, he knew that it would make for an opulent subdivision. He developed the peak of Bunker Hill with lavish two-story Victorian houses that became famous as homes for the upper-class, educated residents of Los Angeles. Angels Flight, dubbed "The World's Shortest Railway", took residents from the top of the hill to the bottom of the 33% grade and thus to the main business district. Much like today's Bunker Hill, the land of the hill was zoned for dense uses, and was therefore always a very busy area considering how L.A. is a very important city. Image File history File links Downtown-LA-1900. ... Image File history File links Downtown-LA-1900. ... Pershing Square Signed into being by Los Angeles mayor Cristobal Aguilar as a park in 1866. ... The Los Angeles Basin is the coastal sediment-filled plain located between the peninsular and transverse ranges in southern California in the United States containing the central part of the city of Los Angeles. ... The Los Angeles River, highlighted in red (on the left). ... Manchester Town Hall is an example of Victorian architecture found in Manchester, UK. The Carson Mansion is an example of a Victorian home in Eureka, California, USA The term Victorian architecture can refer to one of a number of architectural styles predominantly in the Victorian era. ... Current view 1903 view, with the Third Street Tunnel at right Angels Flight is a landmark funicular railway in the Bunker Hill district of downtown Los Angeles, California, United States, which claims to be the shortest railway in the world. ...

Initially a residential suburb, Bunker Hill retained its exclusiveness until the end of World War I, but in the face of increased urban growth fed by an extensive streetcar system, its wealthy residents began leaving for enclaves on the west side and Pasadena. After the war Bunker Hill's houses were increasingly sub-divided to accommodate renters. By World War II the Pasadena freeway, built to bring shoppers downtown, was taking residents out. From 1945 on, additional freeway â€œThe Great War â€ redirects here. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

construction left downtown comparatively empty of both people and services, and the Victorian houses on Bunker Hill had become slum housing. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 450 Ã— 600 pixelsFull resolution (600 Ã— 800 pixel, file size: 246 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Downtown LAs office skyscrapers. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 450 Ã— 600 pixelsFull resolution (600 Ã— 800 pixel, file size: 246 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Downtown LAs office skyscrapers. ... Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. ...

The Bunker Hill Redevelopment Project

In 1955, Los Angeles city planners decided that Bunker Hill required a massive slum-clearance project. Thinking big, the top of Bunker Hill was cleared of its houses and street-car tunnels (one tunnel was replaced by a bridge) and then flattened as the first stage of the Bunker Hill Redevelopment Project, whose primary goal was to populate Bunker Hill with modern plazas and buildings. When the height limit of buildings for Los Angeles was finally raised (previously buildings were limited to 150 feet), developers built some of the tallest skyscrapers in the region to take advantage of the area's existing dense zoning. In approving such projects, the city sought to project a modern, sophisticated image, and this is largely the impression one receives from visiting the area today. Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar). ...

The project is the oldest redevelopment project in Los Angeles history, and is scheduled to end in 2015. The majority of the skyscrapers on Bunker Hill were built in the 1980s, with a new skyscraper or two being finished nearly every year. However, the momentum died down in the 1990s, shortly after the 52 Story, Two California Plaza was finished; this was partly due to the increase of vacant office space as employers and professionals fled the city's high taxes and traffic congestion, but mainly due to the recession, which resulted in the canellation of many planned office towers including California Plaza Three, and a 4-towered project named Metropolis (which was brought back to life in 2005). In 1999, the vacancy rate for downtown commercial skyscrapers was 26% (one of the highest in the nation for that time). Tax rates around the world Tax revenue as % of GDP Economic policy Monetary policy Central bank Money supply Fiscal policy Spending Deficit Debt Trade policy Tariff Trade agreement Finance Financial market Financial market participants Corporate Personal Public Banking Regulation A tax is a financial charge or other levy imposed on... This article needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ...

Bunker Hill today

The development momentum from the 1980s is slowly returning, as of 2005. Many of the older buildings and the early high-rises are undergoing adaptive reuse from commercial to residential. Image File history File linksMetadata WaltDisneyConcertHall-12-22-04. ... Image File history File linksMetadata WaltDisneyConcertHall-12-22-04. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Reusing old buildings for new purposes. ...

This trend began in 2000, when the Los Angeles City Council passed an Adaptive Re-Use Ordinance, allowing old unused office buildings to be redeveloped as apartments or "lofts." Developers realized there was a high level of pent-up demand for living in or near downtown, by both artists and employees of various firms in the financial district, and that they could profit by supplying upscale luxury housing (equipped with appropriate security measures) to meet such demand. Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ...

Many developers have been able to sell all the units in their new projects in a matter of hours. For example, all units in the south tower of the three-tower apartment project Elleven were sold out in 48 hours.

Because of the popularity of the New Urbanism in California, the city has required developers to build mixed-use residential buildings as much as possible. This means that the first floor of such residential developments are devoted to commercial retailers, so that residents do not have to constantly drive around for all their shopping trips and buildings present a more welcoming facade to passersby on the sidewalk. The New urbanism is an American urban design movement that arose in the early 1980s. ...

Another factor contributing to the resurgence of development in the Bunker Hill area is the construction of high-quality public venues, such as the new Walt Disney Concert Hall and Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, and the Museum of Contemporary Art. Planned projects include LA Live on Figueroa Street and Olympic Boulevard in South Park (the southern end of the Bunker Hill area), and the February 2007 approved $2.05 billion Grand Avenue Project, which over the next 10 years starting fall 2007 (the first construction beginnings) will bring in over 2,000 new residential units with over 400 of them being affordable units for all degrees of low-income families, 1 million square feet (93,000 m²) of office space, a Mandarin hotel, 600,000 square feet (56,000 m²) of retail and entertainment space, and a 16 acre (65,000 m²) park connecting City Hall to certain civic establishments (office space and residential units will be in several skyscrapers ranging between 35-55 stories each). Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... An older Wells Fargo branch, located in Berkeley, California Wells Fargos corporate headquarters and main branch Wells Fargo & Co. ... The name California Plaza may refer to one of the following locations in Los Angeles: Omni Los Angeles Hotel One California Plaza Two California Plaza Category: ... The top portion of the Westin Bonaventure Hotel The Westin Bonaventure Hotel is the largest hotel in Los Angeles, California, USA. It is 367 feet (112 meters) tall and has 35 floors. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... MOCA, Downtown Los Angeles. ... The Los Angeles Sports and Entertainment District, (also popularly called Times Square West, and L.A. Live) is a civic center currently under development and construction in Downtown Los Angeles, California. ... Figueroa Street, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, is one of the longest continuous streets in the world. ... Olympic Boulevard is a major arterial road in Los Angeles, California. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... The Grand Avenue Project along with the Los Angeles Sports and Entertainment District is a project currently under development designed to revive downtown Los Angeles. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... A boy from an East Cipinang trash dump slum in Jakarta, Indonesia shows what he found. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Finally, the community is eagerly anticipating the return of the Angels Flight tramway (which was rebuilt in 1996 near where it was originally located), which was shut down indefinitely after a fatal accident in 2001. This is supposed to open some time in 2007, but a firm date has not been set yet. One sign of the success of the downtown renaissance is that the office vacancy rate for the fourth quarter of 2004 was 16%, compared to 19% for 2003, and 26% for 1999. Current view 1903 view, with the Third Street Tunnel at right Angels Flight is a landmark funicular railway in the Bunker Hill district of downtown Los Angeles, California, United States, which claims to be the shortest railway in the world. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ...

Gentrification

While developers are building luxury housing on Bunker Hill today, the City of Los Angeles has very strict laws, rules, and ordinances established that prevent gentrification. Some examples include incentives for the creation of affordable housing (rather than market-rate housing), the preservation of existing affordable housing, the development of affordable housing by the city itself (rather than waiting for private developers), and other things. The city has written documentation regarding the development of affordable housing, here[1] and here[2]. Image File history File linksMetadata JohnFerraroBuilding-122204. ... Image File history File linksMetadata JohnFerraroBuilding-122204. ... John Ferraro (May 14th, 1924 - April 17th, 2001) served as Los Angeles City Councilmen from 1966 until 2001. ... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ...

On the topic of building affordable housing for very low-income to moderate-income, Principal City Planner Jane Blumenfeld said, "We are trying to make it attractive to build [downtown] and get this added affordable housing that we normally wouldn't have. We need an adequate amount of lower income housing so that in 20 years Downtown doesn't become an exclusive neighborhood." [3]

Bunker Hill in popular culture

For several decades, Bunker Hill was a popular setting for filmmakers, much like South Los Angeles today, and was used as a location for such film noir crime films as Kiss Me Deadly (1956), Criss Cross (1949), and Angel's Flight (1965) and Oscar Award winning L.A. Confidential (1998). The neo-realist and semi-documentary feature The Exiles (1961) depicts life on Bunker Hill in the late 1950s. The area around 3rd and Hill, circa 1930s, was recreated in South Africa for the filming of Ask the Dust (2006). This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This still from The Big Combo (1955) demonstrates the visual style of film noir at its most extreme. ... Kiss Me Deadly is a 1955 film produced and directed by Robert Aldrich starring Ralph Meeker. ... Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Criss Cross is a 1949 film noir movie, directed by Robert Siodmak from a novel written by Don Tracy. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... L.A. Confidential is a 1997 feature film based on the 1990 crime fiction novel of the same title by James Ellroy, the third in his L.A. Quartet novel cycle. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ask the Dust is a 2006 film based on the book Ask the Dust by John Fante. ...

Fire service

Los Angeles Fire Department Station 3 (Civic Center/Bunker Hill) is in the area. It has been suggested that Warner Lawrence be merged into this article or section. ...

Education

The area is served by the Los Angeles USD. The Los Angeles Unified School District ( the LAUSD) is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. ...

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