As happens every decade or so, civic leaders are professing high hopes for Bunker Hill... "Now, Los Angeles will have at its center a grand boulevard and urban park, providing millions of people each year the opportunity to walk, shop and play while enjoying downtown at its best." Sounds nice. But for the last 49 years the vision that's been stated and restated for the neighborhood ”” one of residences and hotels, of culture and happy pedestrians ”” is exactly what existed there up until the moment in 1961 when the first group of urban renewers bulldozed the Hill's aging Victorian mansions and masonry hotels, giving the landscape a flattop. Read more from the LA Times
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