Halifax,Iowa-A Metropolis in the Making!

[Haljackey 17,398]

Heh, its always nice to drop by and check out how Halifax, Nebraska is developing. Nice job Greekman! I like the creative use of GLR! Cool airport too!

One suggestion I have is to space out your highway interchanges a bit more. It would look more realistic if you did.

Best,

-Haljackey

[Muck308 55]

you have a very nice eye for building placement... everything is spaced very well.

[sedimenjerry 1]

Very nice downtown!

[GreekMan 246]

 

Here is the new and improved:

Ok now I think I should add a border around it the next time. Anyway I will have part 2 of downtown Monday after school around 2 PM Pacific time. But I have to eat my Subway sandwich first after my 12:30 dismissal. Until then see you later!

Remember this:  plus many more of this  equals this

[pagenotfound 53]

this is looking awesome!

[un1 41]

Um... Why haven't I been here more often! This is amazing, from your downtown to the even better downtown...

Beautiful, I can't wait for more....

-un1

[Ntq€310 1]

very nice paper, may i ask about my company, virgin shores holding group which is a 3 timer having insurance, real estate, and being a bank move into halifax, were cuirrently based out of virgin shores with epansions into franklin and flint in process. at this point im trying to spread to every cj in the alliance.

[edmonton_stinks 5]

Nice newspaper! Way to integrate other CJs into yours.

Also I take it the Scotiabank story means that Scotiabank is going into that new tower, and not HP.

[antsel 841]

Your downtown looks great. I like all the proposals and construction going on. Looks like that airport is causing an economic boom in Halifax. I can't say I'm all too surprised to see the mayor is getting a new office, but what do the tax payers think of city hall's expansion? I can't wait to see downtown when it's all said and done. BTW, I am definitely getting many ideas for future projects from your CJ. Keep up the good work!

[crazyarchitect 7]

Nice couple of updates, the airport, downtown, and the paper look great, and it sure is booming too lol

[GreekMan 246]

 

Update 12- Downtown Renovations: Part 2 of 2

With the recent expansion of homes and the construction of the new airport, downtown Halifax has been revitalized. If one saw Halifax before the boom, they would surely wonder if this was Halifax after the recent construction boom. the city must have paid $500 million for all of these improvements. The construction of the buildings (except City Hall and nearby government buildings) were built without taxpyers' money. (Who ever built a building like the Bank of Halifax, they built it with their own money). If the founding fathers saw Halifax today they would be proud!

Our tour begins at the newly accomplished Alliance Plaza. If you didn't know Halifax is a member of the Alliance of Fuel and Developing and Exporting States. The building to the left of the plaza is an embassy for all the members. So the represenatives of Flint or any other member, can eat lucnh in the shady plaza and maybe go to the mall next door.

The Halifax Mall is every shoppers dream. This os one of the largest malls in the city! To the right of the mall will be future residential buildings.

The Bank of Halifax built a huge building at the corners of Broadway and Market St. The bank is pround to have a fine building like that, wouldn't you agree?  On the upper levels, where the transmiter is located, is the location for the nations' newest economic finacial TV program. The new station is simialr to Bloomberg TV in New York.

Next to the renamed Scotiabank Arena, is the newly built, Virgin Shores National Bank. The  VSNB is the third largest bank in the region and is the regional headquarters for the Halifax region. The bank also shares the building with IKON.

Also next to Scotiabank is the newly built hotel, Embassy Suites, built by Lunchbox INTL, Holdings Inc. The new hotel has 1,235 rooms making it the largest hotel in the region! the hotel also has a bonus: whitch is being next to a parking garage.

Along Broadway is Metro Hall. Metro Hall serves as the Municipality of Metropolitan Halifax and its employees. Metro Hall serves the metro area with numerous services like: Greater Halifax Regional Transportion, Regional Airport Adminstration, Regional Growth, Planning, and Development, and a few others.

Also located at Metro Hall is the newly formed corporation called CCDC or Center City Develpment Corportation. The CCDC will spearhead all Downtown renovations instead of City Hall. Below is the logo for the new corporation:

 

Below is just a shot of the finacial district. You can see some of the new buildings in the heart of downtown:

The new Scotiabank which fought over HP for the building. HP and Scotiabank are not very friendly to each other after the "battle" for the build.  Scotiabank has 4,500 emplyees in their building.

And finally. the moment you have been waiting for. Drum roll please........

Presenting the new City Hall Complex!!! Give it up for City Hall!

The Metro station in the middle will serve as a main trnsit hub for future subway lines. It is expected that the City Hall Transfer Station will bring in tens of thousands of people into the area every day!

And here a view of some of the new government buildings: (Isn't this a cool picture???)

And finally here is a overview of downtown and the surrounding areas:

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Replies

BlondeTwiggy- Welcome! I explained ow the city will pay for all of this consruction related stuff. Well teams have new stadiums, why shouldn't the mayor have a new office? Thanks for the comment and I like your banner!

deathtopumpkins-It's fine....Thnaks for posting

edmonton_stinks- First paragragh says it all! Nuff said!

Archean-I liked it but I had to destroy it....Thanks for the comment!

SimHoTToDDy-Wow thanks! Best of luck to you Todd, you silly comrade you!

flyinbird93-It sure it! thanks!

jacqulina-Thanks!

Ntq$310-Thanks! How do you like the new Bank of Flint?

haljackey-Thanks! Next time I build an interchange I will keep that in mind!

Muck308-Thanks!

sedimenjerry-Thanks a lot!

pagenotfound-Thanks for doing that!

un1-IDK...well come back for more! Thanks for posting!

Ntq$310-All I can say is: Welcome to Halifax!

edmonton_stinks-Yep! Scotiabank is in America which would never happen in real life.....

selles-Sure take whatever you want. The tax payers approve of the building because it's put to good use. The new compex is ten times better than the old one!

crazyarchitect-Yep what a booming city! Like the location of ES?

Well I hope you like this amazing update, I know I did! I hope all will post their comments!

'Till next time

-Chris

[un1 41]

I'll show you come back. Amazing!! Your downtown is the best (I think i will say that another 500 trillion times) I have ever seen. Maybe you should get a slope mod though...

-un1

[Ntq€310 1]

i love it, but it isnt called bank of flint, but the name of it sounds very very nice, so who knows mabe yit will be called that soon. But at this time Virgin Shores national bank.

Also your downtown is really really nice, so niec the english language cant describe it.

[Almighty Nienaber 3]

are you from nebraska?

[BlondeTwiggy 43]

I am back.  Ooh, good, that renovation except the gov buildings was built without taxpayers' money.  I approve!  So glad you like my sig banner.  Ooo, a mall!  I like this too!  I must go shopping here.  The Embassy Suites hotel looks kinda weird.  Is it actually BATted like that?  Looks like a glenni building lol.  I like the W2W beside it.  The overview is highly impressive, if not a bit griddy at times. However, it looks very well-planned. 

[Schulmanator 5,812]

I like! This will be the pride of Nebraska.

[antsel 841]

I love the developments that took place in downtown. The City Hall complex is very impressive!

[phoenix7 3]

That downtown is very impressive. The only things I would work on are your transitions from downtown to medium density development and also your interchanges, which have a lot of weaving.

[SimHoTToDDy 2,939]

Mmmmm, that downtown just keeps getting better and better, but I really can't get enough!

I am a silly comrade aren't I,

-Todd

[Twenty20 28]

Great update ! your downtown is amazing, you really did an excellent work !

[sedimenjerry 1]

Nothing like palm trees in Nebraska!

Nice work!

[Haljackey 17,398]

 Your city looks really realistic from a zoomed-out view.  The CBD is clearly visible.  Excellent work on the close ups too.

[flyinbird93 2]

wow nice update, i love the extra things you've added to read and your pics look great. keep up the good work!

[edmonton_stinks 5]

WOW. Now that is one fantastic downtown!

[GreekMan 246]

A MODEST PROPOSAL

Hello! I have a few proposals that I would like to share with you. You can make the desision of what you want:

A) Have 26 updates of Suburban Halifax with some farms in some of these posts. There would be 26(a-z) posts and this would be a first for Simtropolis! I am afraid that people would get bored will 26 updates og suburban Halifax.

B) Have 26 updates but have them incraments of 5 updates so for example:

5 suburban updates then

building Fairfax

5 suburban updates then

building York

so on  and so forth

C) Quit this CJ and leave ST altogether!  

So you have two choices A or B. C is a little joke..hehe

If  you have any other proposes tell me because i am somewhat runnning out of ideas!

[Ducio 285]

Nice! I like all the Canadian references...   I choose option B !

[Muck308 55]

You continue to outdo yourself. How long have you been playing this game? I've been playing some version of SC since the mid nineties... and I can never seem to achieve the level of realism that you have here. Well done.

[Petrovar Ambassador 15]

great city GreekMan! I like the organization of your CJ, great paper and downtown =)

C!!!!

jk jk jk. =) I say B!

[deathtopumpkins 43]

B!

You had me scared there for a minute with the title "A MODEST PROPOSAL"  

[Ntq€310 1]

i like b the best, also may i request i use your airport to get to calder? it would be a good moment to disguess things on the plane.