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“What the Acropolis was to Ancient Greece during her Golden Age, the new Civic Center now being hewn from the shabby slopes of Bunker Hill will be to Los Angeles,” The Times wrote in 1957.

Friday, the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a fire that started at a construction site on Bunker Hill Avenue, then jumped to a nearby three-story apartment building, according to a news alert.

Bunker Hill is primed to elevate its status as the region’s leading arts center even as the area around it struggles with persistent homelessness and post-pandemic losses of office tenants.

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 Los Angeles Times.

It’s a depressingly reliable fact of Los Angeles architecture: Nothing comes easily on Bunker Hill.