Whitman Bay - Forest to Metropolis

[palin1388 0]

Oh cool update and so it starts. Love the coal mines and port.  Oh and looky looky I managed to get the top of page 3 didn't I do that on page 2 as well.  Well congrats on your 3rd page.

[2nerdy4u 1]

Beautiful work. Excellent.

[cemaphon 0]

Replies

bbfan02 - Yeah, it's a cool mine. Peg's of course.

edmonton_stinks - No! good economic/demographic consequences! Oh, and a garbage dock. Nevermind.

palin1138 - I love making ports, and as my region is developing into a sort of alternate Seattle, I'll be building a big one sooner or later.

2nerdy4u -  Thanks!

[cemaphon 0]

Expansion & Renewal

(EDIT - Fixed image sizes.)

Last time around, the struggling seaport was just starting to attract some new business.  So, the engineers got busy digging and dredging, and by the time of the US entry into World War II, the first major port expansion was complete:

Note that a second cement plant was built to facilitate all the new construction. This one was laid out better for receiving gravel by barge.

The port can be roughly divided into 2 main sections. The eastern half has the large factorie that use the main dock.

The western half contains mostly storage facilities, and a few cranes for handling smaller loads.

Companies are beginning to have enough faith in the economic potential of the region to build some truly massive factories.

And even our own homegrown Holden Timber Products Inc. got into the action, building a large pulp & paper mill to supplement their sawmill and lumber business. You do NOT want to be downwind of this building!

Now that I am starting to get some buildings that look good at night, how about nighttime at the port?

Remember this? Well, Holden Timber Products Inc.now under corporate ownership grew tired of owning land that was practically worthless, and having their name associated with a dead town. They sold the land to a development company that was eager to build apartments for all the new workers in the port area, but who were unable to persuade the zoning commission of Glanton to let them build there. The result:

Sure, it's cramped and noisy, and still fairly poor, but at least it has basic civic services, and houses that aren't falling apart. They even paved the alleys! More importantly, many of the millworkers have moved back to Holden, and along with the workers in the port area, the town feels much more confident about it's future.

Some question the wisdom of letting kids play hoops at 2:00AM. All in all, a successful urban renewal, for now anyway. (I was originally going to let Holden stick around in its original form for longer, but those houses had monthly maintenance, and there were a lot of them. Plus, it was handy to build a close-by workforce for the docks.)

Next we'll take a look at what's been going on in Glanton. A teaser:

See you all next time.

[Benedict 3,119]

Great update. Your port is very well done, I particularly like Schwartz Chemicals.

[palin1388 0]

Oh wow the bay is really starting to take off. Nice use of Peg's Ind sea walls.

[2nerdy4u 1]

Nice update. The port is looking great and those apartments are very grimy.

[KingTitan 6]

Looks great....and good details... Combo of night and day really sets a mood.

I do suggest however, you keep your pics stats to 800x600 or below....per OMNIBUS rules.

[jacqulina 162]

great job with the industry my friend great docks there

[suplado! 23]

wow, cool industrial area and really nice port...

[cemaphon 0]

D'oh! Image sizes fixed now.

[edmonton_stinks 5]

Woohoo! Slums! At least there are people living there.

[tjperry88 24]

I like the slums... now watch another part of town be the SIMOLEONS!

[connorc24 2]

Great port!

[cemaphon 0]

My computer died, so it will be awhile before I get the cj back up and running, especially with the holiday season coming up. See you all later!

[bbfan02 23]

Awww. Hopefully you will be able to get the cj back on track.

-bbfan02-

[Skram 4]

crap....well at least its not over for good....at least i think so.... I'm confused... anyway this is a good cj, good use of custom content, and nice port! i'll probley come back......thats if you can countiune your cj.

[palin1388 0]

Hate to see you take a break this has truely been an awesome ride so far. hope you get your computer up and running soon though.

[edmonton_stinks 5]

Sorry to hear that. Good luck working out the computer issues...

[cemaphon 0]

Grr. SimCity reinstall mangled my plugin and region folders, so I guess this is the end of the CJ. But on the positive side, with my new speedy computer, I think I may be able to tackle some larger regions. I did have fun with this journal, so I'll probably do another one once I get through all the fun of re-dowloading a zillion plugins.

[bbfan02 23]

Awww. Looking forward to your next cj.

-bbfan02-

[Skram 4]

Well that must suck, but at least you can make another cj!