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Now unlocked, should work fine now. :)

One of the few skyscrapers built in Portland during the 1950's, What once was a humble 8-story terracotta building morphed into The 511 Building. Apparently, this was architect Richard Sundedleaf's answer to Pietro Belluschi's groundbreaking Equitable Building, just a few blocks east. Needless to say, it didn't quite measure up, nor has it worn well on the eyes over the years either.

Regardless, this is a medical professional building, and it performs its role well. Although it is officially known by its address at 511 SW Tenth Avenue, a sign in psuedo-deco lettering above the main doors announces the structure as the Portland Medical Center. Private medical practices and part of Pacific University's healthcare program are the major tennants. The city-mandated ground-floor retail consists of a cafe, optometrist, and a retail pharmacy further projecting a medical use of the building to all passers-by.

The top of the building has seen a forest of communications devices grow alongside very obvious HVAC structures, despite the presence of a mechanical penthouse.

Extra BATer's commentary: I am quite familiar with this building, having had to visit doctors that had offices inside.

Installation Instructions:

Unzip and run the installer program. Files will install to C:/...my documents/SimCity 4/Plugins/Sparkythepenguin/511 Building/
(you may change the destination if you wish). You may then go through and remove undesired versions.

Stats:
Modelling and most modding: Sparkythepenguin

German-version beta testing and editing: Andreas_Roth

Spanish-version beta testing: Asturianu

Lot: 4x4 (all lots)

The growable lot should grow only as a stage 6 Houston corner tiles.

English/German/Spanish multilingual support:

This BAT is fully tested, translated, and capable of running in English, Spanish, and German-language versions of SC4.

No need to worry about downloading extra stuff to get it to work in English, Spanish, or German, everything needed is in the lots included. Your version of SC4 will take care of the rest. (Lots will default to English for other languages). A French version may come in the future. That is whenever I can get a refresher course on it or find people willing to translate and beta test in French.

Contents:

 

 

  • 511 Building Model file
  • Read-me & associated photos
  • 1 Growable CO$$ (550CO$$ jobs)
  • 1 Ploppable CO$$ (plop cost 9000. 550 CO$$ jobs)
  • 1 static landmark (Plop cost $9000)
  • 1 medical clinic (Capacity 1000 Patients)
  • NO desc files! Not needed thanks to some slick modding by Andreas_Roth. :)

Dependencies:

None!

Realistic placement:

This lot looks best when surrounded by roads on all sides, as it is in real-life.

Bugs/glitches/annoyances:

The parking ramp looks a little weird due ton exporting error that I could not, at this time, overcome.

Another BAT by the The Portland and Oregon BAT Team.

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Good way to start off your wave of releases! The parking garage looks great. I like how it wraps around the building.

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Awesome texturing, one of the best parking lot scenes in Simcity. Makes me want to add modeled parking lots to buildings as well. Great roof junk, really I think this has the 'junkiest' roof in Portland.

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Nice to see all of thes released. The parking lot on this one is great.

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hey, all the buildings you uploaded have no MODEL files...and in simcity they are ALL vacant lots, and two of them have brown box's

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The building is great. A modeled parking lot is a different approach considering the parking lot textures available. Still, an outstanding job. Now, all we need is the model file as one wasn't included the archive.

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This one goes straight into my plugin folder. Very subtle, yet beautiful design. Also I love buildings that have gone through a proper mod process before release. Good work on this one! 10/10

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Another great one! Thanks again! The last of the Portland boxes I downloaded!! FYI, all of them are keepable!!

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Yeah, I messed up and forget the model files! Oops... But they're there now. If you downloaded this before the update indicated above, please redownload and they'll be there. :) Thanks for all the comments and enjoy!

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thanks for fixing it, I was a little ticked there when nothing showed up in the game.

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Ahh! I have to download them all again! Worth it though, the STEX is really having some excellent stuff put up at the moment, these 7 being the cream of the crop. Excellent work Sparky! 10/10

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I missed this on back in 2008 - but going through the STEX now, I'm glad I found this. It's a perfect "messy" building, random car park ramp, a lot of stuff fitted over the years etc. I love it! 

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