Developing very large buildings

[usfwoody 3]

I am interested in getting some of the very large Projects buildings from the Ghetto Packs (6x6 to 15x15) as well the Bixel behemoths to grow, and I have been having the worst time of it.

I believe I am zoning properly, holding the ctrl key to zone.  Now, am I correct in thinking that if a lot says 7x5, it means the arrows along the road should be 7 wide, and 5 deep?

That being said has anyone here had a better time of growing these massive lots?  Plopping just seems so... easy.  I want these to grow, dag-namit.

Grow stages are fairly high, demand is very high.  I have a few stage 10+ bldgs and a few stage 14-15 so I believe there shouldnt be a glass ceiling here.  Regional Pop is ~340,000, although its mostly in one city. 

[Gugu3 173]

I have a city with 450000 inhabitants and lots of bixel's creations in it...but they grew up quite easy...sometimes i noticed that even if you zone in an appropriate way,they won't grow up...and I don't why...anyway try to create more cities and jobs...then come back back to your city...it should work now...i think you should get quite high demand to get them growing...hope it works 

[Cyrilix 0]

You don't have to zone at all for a certain size. Even if you have 3 of 1x3 side by side, quite often, a 3x3 ends up monopolizing the entire space, usually if they are the same wealth level. I think you just need the demand.

[Markus J 242]

I might be wrong in saying this but that doesn't seem like a very high population for huge buildings.

Shouldn't it be closer to a million? I'm no to familar with CAM I just know you need really high population for really high and big buildings.

[Gugu3 173]

I don't think you need to get 1000000 inhabitants...the stage of the buildings that are built depends on the regional population of course...but i think that for a stage 13 building you might have a regional population of 600000-700000 inhabitants...check for the CAM and lot counter park on SC4devotion...it will help you!

[usfwoody 3]

I have a good update to my original issue: I have read elsewhere that an option is to de-zone most residential zones in a large city. Demand for residential skyrockets, and puts it into the conditions to grow those very large buildings. I tried it last night.... and it worked!

Gugu3 is also correct, in that chances are much better when you have that many people, but there are execptions. I had just over 300K population and when I demolished the vast majority of residential zones I was able to:

1: Change the layout and zone for very large complexes.

2: Actually had the very large buildings grow.

You must be careful though, as demand for Ind and CS/CO takes a beating. If you don't bring back that lost population quickly you might run into abandonment problems.

To date I have a few Bixel behemoths and 2 very beautiful R$$$ complexes from other creators.