San Angeles Islands

[davidhogan 1]

The San Angeles Islands would like to announce that properties are now available in our rapidly expanding cities of South Port and San Angeles.  We'll get you some pictures of those soon, but first some background.

Early Development in South Port

The SA Islands are entirely privately owned located in the Pacific Ocean.  They are served by their own private police, customs, freeways, and subway systems.  The population currently is over 235,000 people and growing rapidly.  Several new cities are currently in the planning stages, so if you want to be a pioneer, with the conveniences of good health care, schools, and mass transit, come join us.

South Port after the completion of its freeways

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[Cjah 15]

Wow...Its the future when L.a. falls into the sea and produces islands....

Crazy cool and I can't wait for the next update!

[cityhawk 12]

Nice start! I do suspect that more and more people will move into your great city.

[Mikeaut1 261]

Wow excellent start to a promising journal. Keep updating and you will get some nice comments flowing in here. Excellent region view in that first pic!

[sloppet 3]

nice new start of a new CJ!!

[Energy Monkey 0]

Nice start, good looking CJ, and keep that way. Or Else...

[simmax 0]

Nice start. I can't wait to see more!

[jacqulina 162]

great start looking nice look forward to more

[bat 6]

Great start!

bat

[davidhogan 1]

Thanks to everyone for the comments and interest in the San Angeles Islands.  We're excited about the construction of our first major airport, but due to some unforseen weather delays we're a little bit behind schedule for completion.  For now, familiarize yourself with South Port.

Downtown South Port at dusk

South Port is the oldest city on the islands, and it was mostly developed before the freeway network plans were finalized.  Broadway, the large avenue that connects to the Broadway Bridge was the originally planned path for the freeway, but due to the potential impacts on the exiting development a path through the southern Industrial/Port neighborhoods was chosen instead.

South Port's eastern neighborhood

The area where the bridge landed had a similar difficulty in that local residents did not want the existing businesses forced to move, so many were able to stay by creating dual bypasses that link just a few hundred yards from the original plans.  The parking garage was built on vacant land due to the close proximity to the freeway junction.

The first San Angeles Naval Station

The San Angeles Navy is not the largest on Earth, but it's sufficient for the Islands' needs.  The brown brick midrise is currently being leased as military housing, but there are plans to add more choices to the options with more condos planned soon for this neighborhood.

[White_Stripes_200 0]

Awesome, I like the Downtown South Port at dusk picture. Can't wait to see more.

[andymcnab666 4]

fairly nice, something is missing though... perhaps the lack of trees... I like lots of trees. But something is definatly missing.

[davidhogan 1]

Originally posted by: andymcnab666 fairly nice, something is missing though... perhaps the lack of trees... I like lots of trees. But something is definatly missing.quote>

The San Angeles Islands Development Corporation is aware of concerns of many residents and potential tourists about the lack of green spaces.  There are many parks under development, and our South Port City Services team is working to plant trees along the sides of many existing freeways.

I'll make sure to post pictures as soon as more of our city services projects come to fruition.

Thanks for understanding,

Dave Hogan

SA Islands Development Corp

[cityhawk 12]

Very nice pics. Just one thing: the arrows on the one-way roads look ugly IMO. Download the noonewayarrows mod from the modds & downloads section to get rid of them if you consider it.

Keep up the great work!

[oroen 0]

Hey Dave, nice to see the start of another potentially interesting city journal from you.

[Energy Monkey 0]

Lookin Good! I'm glad you listened to my advice

[GreekMan 246]

very nice . i look forward to see more of this. Great city

[Cjah 15]

Excellent update!

Great transit system and awesome naval port!

[dedgren 830]

South Port is the oldest city on the islands, and it was mostly developed before the freeway network plans were finalized.  Broadway, the large avenue that connects to the Broadway Bridge was the originally planned path for the freeway, but due to the potential impacts on the exiting development a path through the southern Industrial/Port neighborhoods was chosen instead.quote>

A very RL problem.  As an urban planner (in kinda-sorta retirement, I currently have a day job as an attorney) and SC4 fanatic, I am always amused by the bad choices that one always seems to be confronted with in trying to retrofit a freeway system into a city that more or less developed without one.

In RL, most of those freeways would just never get built...ahhh, it's good to be king for a change.

Anyway, San Angeles Islands has attracted my interest- I'll be back for more.

[davidhogan 1]

Thanks to everyone for the kind comments.  Out of character, I'm approaching this from what-if a corporation were to buy some islands and develop them as their own private nation.  They would have incentive to build proper infrastructure to attract people who are sick of congestion, poor health care, bad schools, or corrupt police.

Having lived in the US for my whole life, and having spent time on both coasts, I'm trying to make a US-modeled but not duplicated society, much as I did with existing areas in my San Diego and Santa Barbara CJ's.  This region allows me to make it self-contained, based on the premise they're unpopulated Pacific Islands.

Will they become the next New York/Los Angeles, or a Rust Belt disaster?  Stay tuned.....

Thanks for reading,

Dave

[sloppet 3]

great pictures ./.. the last update is really good!