Afton Lakes

[jeremy12 0]

The City Journal will have more detailed posts https://www.simtropolis.com/cityjournals/?p=toc&id=1010 from 10-26 i am going to start doing more basic posts here (screens) the more in depth "story" posts will be in the journal

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       After years of suffering in cities becoming more and more polluted by the endless construction of heavy industry and manufactuing in cities all around the world. Citizens from all around the globe are looking for a new city to call home. A intrepid few entrepreneurs set forth for a new city to call home and to build a city teaming with the best of the best in the office and high tech fields, and to offer a clean place to live for manufacturing and industrial workers. They then learned of the new city named Afton and set out to settle there however upon their arival they learned the mayor of afton is developing the town to be a small resort destination. So the entrepreneurs set out east of Afton in search on un-claimed land what they found would become known as Afton lakes

Land Survey results:

With the Land Survey complete planning of the city began after months of Debate the founders layed out this Development plan as a starting base for the City, knowing that if they must resort to even 1 industrial building to cordon off a small area for it to reside

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[jeremy12 0]

With the First few months of construction completed the city is 1/3rd of the way through Phase 1 of the Original construction plan, With this Mile marker the local City Historian commity doumented the city look and status as it stand

View that Visitors first see from the Main Highway coming into the City (Highway 55)

From the Utility Station Hill just to the south

Aerial View of the City

And Documentation of current City Census and Economic Status

[CWLGAMER01 39]

Very nice. I got a great idea from you -- I love the "Documentation of current City Census and Economic Status" -- LOL

We could call this the DOCCAES for short....... sound good to you???

Anyway keep up the great work and I look forward to seeing more....... oh yeah -- I thought your first photo in the second post was funny .... "View that Visitors first see from the Main Highway coming into the City (Highway 55)".... maybe from a helicoptor......

On a serous note however -- good work!

[jeremy12 0]

Originally posted by: CWLGAMER01

Anyway keep up the great work and I look forward to seeing more....... oh yeah -- I thought your first photo in the second post was funny .... "View that Visitors first see from the Main Highway coming into the City (Highway 55)".... maybe from a helicoptor...... quote>

i was wondering if someone would pick that up lol

[Larks2242 251]

Good job looks nice

[barcasam7 185]

Looks awesome so far, keep it up

[citiesxlfan42 27]

Cool! Looks amazing!

One suggestion: There is al large gap in the residential area. You should fill that up.

[jeremy12 0]

 Not much progress this week as i have been working on supporting cities

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The city has slowly been growing over the last few months, and with it so have the road sizes, traffic congestion surrounding the cities first high tech plaza has caused the mayor to make many roads in the surrounding area one ways and to add additional lanes on the primary path in to the Shore line office district

With the coming completion of Phase 1 here you can see the current Highway 55 and Interstate 494

Yes i know that split should be ramps, all in due time

Here you can see traffic is getting heavy on Highway 55 and on 494 up until the Jackson Street split, The city console has already approved a 6 million dollars to go towards adding a addition 4 lanes to Highway 55 that will create 4 lanes in both direction, constuction will begin as building to the south of 494 begins this month

Here you can see the current plan for future highways and interstates, all names are not final at this time, that information should be ready by the completion of phase 1, marked in blue you can see the complete stretches of 55 and 494

 

Current economic status:

And now for the postcard shots

 

Airial view

 

View from the top of the hotel next to the high tech office park looking at the Shore line office district

 

High Tech Area round office park to the right and houses to the left, just to the bottom(not visible) is the Shore line Office District

 

[Larks2242 251]

Nice job great city map

[jeremy12 0]

 Ok, so i lied i got it done tonight, here is the planned highway map

[Larks2242 251]

Cool map Jeremy

[blinger 0]

great map.. loving the layout so far

[blinger 0]

oh and how the hell are you making 80k per turn!? Most i've ever had was like 30 or so

[Stef42 0]

Looks very nice, I hope you can give us a new update?

[jeremy12 0]

First we will start off with the Afton Lakes Industrial project taking place in the neighboring town of Plainsfield,  This city will become a major exported of heavy industry, Manufacuting, Power, and oil

Here we can see the start of the housing District

Here we can see the start of the heavy industry (right) and manufacturing (Left)

More Information on the Development of this Sub City to come as it matures, and yes as you can see due to the traffic there are 2 small ave's going into the industrial zone

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Afton Lakes has had a lot of changes since the last post, due to this i am going to overview the changes, i am planning on starting a City journal and when i do i will cover the events in more detail, with actual zone names

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With Highway 55 rebuild in the Phase 1 area of the city now complete we can see here that there is still plenty of expansion opprotunity

Here is a shot of the River front Villas built at the end of Phase 1's construction

Two other shots of the finished phase 1 

Here we can see the city from the new 494 Bridge

Here we can see the new Intersection between the residental and office/high tech area of the south end of phase 1's area

The City also welcomes its first elites tot he city!

Here we can see the start of construction in the phase 2 area, including the city's first airport

With the opening of the cities first airport the city also is great full to be the host of a new State Park next to the airport, it will provide nice views of city, has walkways and a small road down by the lake front and fountain in the middle

Park at night:

With the start of the more upscale part of the city the city console has decided to help being larger companies into the city by upgrading town hall, and also moving the city hall to a new location featuring a park and all city services near by

And last but not least the current road map of the city with traffic flow, you can see work has already started on what will become the Highway 55 and Interstate 694 intersection, expecting heavy traffic the city console elected to start off big with the possibilty of down sizing the interchange if zoning permits, they did not want to be as limited by highways size here as they will be with highway 55 and interstate 494 

Well thats all for now, there have been more changes since these screens, this is a time of great growth for the city, i will have a city journal and more updates by this weekend

New City Journal

The City Journal will have more detailed posts https://www.simtropolis.com/cityjournals/?p=toc&id=1010 from 10-26 i am going to start doing more basic posts here (screens) the more in depth "story" posts will be in the journal

[Larks2242 251]

Great update love the overpass!

[jeremy12 0]

From the City Journal:

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With the relocation of the city hall, the new city airport open, the first state park teaming with life, now just 1 year behind us the city looks as if its going to reach for the sky even faster, over the last year the city has had huge growth, lets take a look at some milestones over the last year.

The City became host to their very own football team the "Afton Lakers"

The city had a economic Boom in water production due to Water Inc. not only opening their regional Headquarters here in Afton Lakes but also due to a new university that specialises in water treatment

a new Elite housing community has been developed nestled in the forest behind city hall, this community's name is North Oaks

The City also had a local City church classified as historic as of late, The Church of St. Nicholas

                     

    

                                       

The City has started to reach for the stars with its first High Rise's known as the Cenarion Towers

              

Here is the newly completed 2.7 Billion dollar interchange of 694 and highway 55, who's construction took over 2 years due to its scale, and budget cutbacks during its construction to allow for other planning since the interchange was not in use at the time

Current City footprint can be seen here from the Asob Satellite

With a Traffic pattern overlay we can see that the city's growth has not impacted commute times to much

View of the City from Bunker Hill

The City's Current Economic Status  looks decent as well!

[Larks2242 251]

Cool a sports team! great update jeremy

[Craig-Abcvs 1,595]

Heh... usually I have to tell peeps off for posting larger than 800x600...   but in this case can I suggest posting larger pics?

 

[jeremy12 0]

Originally posted by: abcvs

Heh... usually I have to tell peeps off for posting larger than 800x600...   but in this case can I suggest posting larger pics?

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Every one of them should be click able to get to a 1280x1024 version

Blueprint construction started last night take a look at the city journal for details https://www.simtropolis.com/cityjournals/?p=view&id=1010&page=6

[citiesxlfan42 27]

Wow!(sniff) I remember when the city was just a baby!(sob) Amazing job!!!(bawls)<- This isn't in a bad way!!!

[pursoo 0]

This is grrrrrrrrrreat!

[zonik77 0]

Wow, I want to live there mate . Looks green, paceful and prosperor!!