Vegas

[fogeybear 0]

Welcome to Vegas! This is a very fast growing city located in the sun desert.

population of the city is approximately 341,107 people.

Due to the huge influx of numbers coming to the city, a huge surplus of houses have been zoned in anticipation to reach around 500,000 within the next year or so. The boom in population is largely due to the economic success of the city in recent years which has attracted many multinational companies including the start up of casinos and high quality hotels with dedicated quarters for bars and clubs, making it the ideal location for its 84,000 students, giving it not only the nickname "party city" but also "Student central"!

Region before the city.

Before and after pic of what the town used to look like, before, it was a small town with much potential..

After, its now one of the fastest growing cities in the contenent with one of the best night life in the world!

Vegas Airport

Typical traffic building up coming in to the city

One of the main avenues leading into Vegas Central

Inner City Flats

The French Quarter

St Pauls Cathedral

Famous row of hotels, the closest one is the ritz, followed by the Hilton and the mariott. great spot for students and visitors as its only 10 minutes from the Vegas Central

Balcony view from the ritz hotel (first 5* hotel to set up in the city, now used predominantly for stag weekends, people go drinking here before they head downtown for the night.

The buzz around the city at night time

The Famous Panaromic Restaurant, known locally as "the stiffy in the liffey" (the Liffey being the river it is near, the stiffy..i'll let you figure that one out!)

downtown

downtown market square

you can see from the helicopter ride the vast areas zoned for housing in anticipation to the population boom

the downtown area has been zoned around 3 distinctive circular plazas which contain bars, restaurants, clubs, offices tourist attractions and hotels for the many thousands that visit each year.

I will post more on the different things to do later on

[Skimbo 304]

Great pics

But there is a littlebit too much grid network

[fogeybear 0]

meh, its an american city so they developers were able to easily extend the city blocks as it grew, sustainable development went out the window with the developers years ago!

[jazyje 1]

Great start -- how's the traffic, by the way, I don't see any major highways....

[fogeybear 0]

traffic isnt too bad, slightly bad by downtown but thats a given..highways arent really needed yet, im planning on carrying out bus services when money permits..everything really is self contained so I didnt want to build big highways out of the city until they were really needed, i will update soon

[jazyje 1]

It's nice to see you not using the sand-box in CXL... I don't use it either when building my cities... IT keeps me fiscally responsible, lol.... And my residents only semi-happy.... LOL

[patriotizzy 0]

Vegas!? This doesn't look remotely close to Vegas. Unless your city isn't supposed to be like Vegas, which is only confusing to me tbh. It's still looking really cool though

[jazyje 1]

Hey, it's LAS Vegas, not just 'Vegas.'

[unholycowgod 0]

i really like those downtown circles! and yes it may be heavy on std grids but if you consider it reminiscent of desert or very flat cities with no obstacles then this is quite typical.

well done!

[patriotizzy 0]

Originally posted by: jazyje

Hey, it's LAS Vegas, not just 'Vegas.'quote>

When people say "Vegas," they always mean Las Vegas. So that's why I said what I wrote earlier.

[jazyje 1]

I know -- I was joking.... Obviously, I've said 'I'm going to VEGAS' myself ..... I think grid is the norm in American western towns -- heck, even hilly San Fransisco is pretty much all grid-based..... Not to mention places like Seattle... or San Diego...

[Raceman95 2]

great start, but i do love highways

[PhatHead 247]

Hi,

Those are some "drop dead gorgeous" pics. great cj keep up the great work.

[mentarman 14]

Good stuff, look forward to seeing more development.

[fogeybear 0]

Hi guys, thanks for the posts, for the record, this is NOT supposed to look like Las Vegas, I just used the name Vegas as it was a cool name that rolled off the tongue. pics will be updated today!

[fogeybear 0]

Ok as promised, here is an update, showing some of the attractions and more upscale hotels

St Pauls Cathedral

French quarter (cultural quarter), here you will find all the best restaurants and museums in town

Vegas Stadium

The sky restaurant

One of the many central parks

Student Village

Inner City Flats (Ghetto Quarter)

The Atlas Hotel

The Novotel

The Hilton

The Marriot Hotel

The Vegas Wheel

The Theatre

Downtown at night

Basketball Courts in the centre of town

Downtown Night Scene (central for night life)

The Clarion Hotel

Bus Vegas is up and running with 57 kilometers of lines (34.2 miles).

The Royal Hotel, 5* glamour all the way!

A view of one of the "Student Towns", these are dotted around the city.

[fogeybear 0]

more updates here for Vegas; The population is now at a staggering 730,000 people, a huge rise in just a small amount of time!

Southern suburbs and urban sprawl

North eastern Vegas with the New Casino central

New Casino central consisting of high end hotels, casinos and bars

Some of the traffic on the northern ring road

Some of the southern suburbs and urban sprawl, you'll notice how much it has spread out since i first posted

Some of the traffic entering Vegas coming off the motorway, also you can see the lights of the airport in the background

I will be doing a more detailed update soon