St. Mary MSA

[mas1092 0]

The ST. MARY MSA

 The Greater St. Mary Area, centered around Rose City.

Table of Contents

page 1 -- Intro (3/1/09)

page 1 -- Update 1 (3/3/09)

page 1 -- Update 2 (3/4/09)

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[mas1092 0]

Intro -- 3/1/09

Welllllllll this is my second attempt at a city journal. The St. Mary Metropolitan Statistical Area, or commonly known as the Greater St. Mary Area, is a soon-to-be developed thriving region. The main focal point will be Rose City.

Lalala the region......

This is my first hand made region, and I am very pleased with how it turned out. The region is made of four large city tiles. Rose City will be the uppermost right tile.

As you can see, water/rivers are the main focal point here, with hills and mountain type terrain to complement it.

The area soon to be known as Rose City.........

One of the two islands, or maybe both, will most likely end up being the central business district. The larger peninsula type thing will be where the majority of the Rose City residents reside.

The next update will be whenever. School is obviously a first priority, but I will try to update two or three times each week.

[antsel 841]

The region looks great! I can't wait to see the development!

[SounderBruce 173]

So, you've decided to start over...good..

[myrunespace 1]

Nice. Sorry for my attitude in your last CJ.

[Follarch 326]

Whoa, negative-vibe-comments. lol Nice region, very river filled. Can't wait to see the housing and developments.

[Hawkeye9 0]

Cool, glad to see you gave it another chance!!! Like I said before, I really like your region!!! Great start and ill be lookin forward to more!!!

[Schulmanator 5,787]

Welcome back. I look forward to seeing your latest work.

[gurrgkud 2]

Awesome map! Looking forward to some development.

[jacqulina 162]

very nice start my friend i love the region

[fabsies55 5]

looks good, cant wait to see what you ome up with.

[suplado! 23]

wow -- cool region, i like the color of the terrain

[technicallydead 1]

Cool start, good luck on your CJ

[mas1092 0]

Replies

selles -- Thank you, I'm excited to start developing it

ComputerGuy890100 -- I'm glad I started over, too

myrunespace -- You have no reason to apologize, you were right and I appreciate it

Archean -- I like water lolll

Hawkeye9 -- Thank you so much!

Schulmanator -- I'm really looking forward to your advice and comments

gurrgkud -- I really like the map, too. I'm very proud of it

jacqulina -- I like the region, too, but it is nothing compared to yours!

fabsies55 -- Chasgracias hehe

suplado! -- Unfortunately, that's not the real color lol its an effect from psp

jonpaulosiglos -- Thank you

[mas1092 0]

Update 1 -- 3/3/09

Small update, los siento!!

This shows three of the neighborhoods in Rose City. Downtown will mostly be medium and high density commercial. Uptown and Midtown will be mostly medium density residential, maybe with some high rises.

The masterplanned downtown is pretty much complete. The transportation network has been finished. It is a grid with a combination of avenues, roads, and one ways. There is a subway, bus network, and light rail. The island is surrounded by a retaining wall. Between the wall and the grid will be a big park

Close ups of the grid and light rail. You can see the two major subway hubs here.

Light rail stations.

There will be no highways in St. Mary! The people will use mass transit. There will be a regional rail, which you will see in the next update.

Sorry this one was so small!

[danielcote 9]

looks good so far

[SounderBruce 173]

Good work!

[Hawkeye9 0]

Looks very nice, great update!!! You look like your planning a very nice transit network, and I especially like the use of your sea walls!!! My only advice would be to press "control + x" and enter "tastyzots" before taking a picture. This will get rid of the power symbol above your train stations. Other than that everything looks great!!! Lookin forward to more!!!

[SC4Poser-moser 0]

looks great, i love to plan out my city's too, from the transportation network up eh lol

[packersfan 666]

This city is going to look good with the small rivers running through it when it is fully developed, great start.

[mas1092 0]

Replies

danielcote -- Thank  you so much!

ComputerGuy890100 -- Thanks

Hawkeye9 -- Next time I have the power zots I will keep that in mind I had to do a little land tweaking so that the sea walls turned out right

SC4Poser-moser -- It is so much easier to plan everything out before instead of doing it after. I love the terrain in your cj

packersfan -- I'm hoping that it is going to look really good, too

[mas1092 0]

Update 2 -- 3/4/09

So a very, very small update. Just wanted to show some pics of the regional rail

Next update development in Rose City will begin..

The path of the rail, in black of course.

The three surrounding cities have been named. To the west of Rose City is Bloomingdale. To the south, St. Augustine. And to the southwest, New Delisburg.

The grand rail station in Rose City. This station is located on the border of Midtown. There is a second, smaller one on the south side.

Location of the grand station in Rose City

That's all!

???: Does anyone know how to turn the grid off? I turned it on sometime the other day and I have no clue how to turn it off lol

[Heblem 600]

Hello, nice start, i like your terrain color and region!

To turn off the grid, prss "G" on your keyboard, hope that helps

take care

[Muck308 55]

This looks like it will turn out really nice. I like the map a lot. I understand the grid for downtown, and the roadways are laid well. It's a good pattern. But perhaps the terrain will prompt you for a bit of anti-grid? I am eager to see where you go with it. Good luck!

[myrunespace 1]

Nice!

[antsel 841]

Your city is looking good so far. I can't wait to see the development!

[Follarch 326]

Very nice city planning! And with all those branching rivers, this is going to be very interesting to follow. Good work!

[sdf 0]

looks great! where is i can download this seawalls?

[Teeparex 6]

Looks like this city will be very unique once it's started growing. I'm really looking forward to seeing more of this!

[jacqulina 162]

great looking region my friend,i like how your planning everything,great transport plans.very nice seawalls.