Downtown Los Angeles

SIMplemente · February 29, 2012

12- A fire for a big tower

The Ernst&Young Plaza is a 534 ft (163 m) tall building located in 725 South Figueroa St. Completed in 1985 is a part, along with the 777 Tower, of the 7+Fig Center, which is a place where they learn to all the Sims how to use their credit cards.

Here's a real life picture of the Ernst&Young Plaza with the 777 Tower behind it.

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Here's our Ernst&Young Plaza in Sim City Downtown Los Angeles.

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Nothing to do with real life, right? I swear that I've spent days, either in Sim City Devotion and here, looking for something similar and I haven't been luck. What a pity! Or the thing I found was too low or it was too hight, or simple very huge to put it down there... So, the one I finally choose it is not the best but... Just as we say in spanish: menos da una piedra, which it means 'it's better than nothing'.

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Downtown Los Angeles, 630 West 5th Street, Central Library building, April 29, 1986, 9'50 AM.

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The Central Library has caught fire!

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Originally named Richard Riodan Central Library, the Central Library is a very old building. Built in 1929 it was yet ready for disaster: although the building was safely evacuated, its vintage construction precluded the ventilation of heat and smoke, and limited firefighter access. Some 400,000 volumes—20 percent of the library's holdings—were destroyed, with significant water and smoke damage done to the surviving works.

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Damages were enormous, and the city couldn't face up with the effort and the costs for the rehabilitation of the building. As a part of the soltution, the LAPL (Los Angeles Public Library) sold the 'air rights' to developers, enabling the construction of the eponymous Library Tower across the street.

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The skyscraper was subsequently renamed as the First Interstate World Center, and the only thing Sims could get clear of its construction, was that the tower was built as a part of the renovation of the Library Square after the arson fire. Works for the construction of the tower begun in 1987 and it was completed in 1989. Here is a detail of the renovation of the Library Square in 1987:

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Working day and night to built the tallest building in the city...

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vivapanda · February 29, 2012

Poor library I do like the new skyscraper

SIMplemente · March 1, 2012

13 - The Lighthouse Tower of Los Angeles.

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The U.S. Bank Tower, formerly known as the The Interstate World Center and also known by locals as the Library Tower, is the perfect lighthouse that a megacity like Los Angeles needed to guide the Sims throught the night. The tower has 73 storeys and it is 1.018 ft (310 m) height. Its tall and brilliant crown, visible miles away from downtown, acts like a lighthouse . The crown marks the exact position of the building during the night and as a result it is almost imposible to any Sim to get lost around the city.

The building is the tallest thing ever built by a Sim not only in CaliSIMfornia, but west of the MisSIMssippi river. It is also a unique skyscraper with a very interesting historical records.

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Designed by Pei Cobb Freed and Ellerbe Becket, the only 'excuse' to built such a megastructure like this one, was the redevelopment of the Central Library Square and its gardens, and the renovation of the Library itself after the 1986 arson fires. As the building was rising up through the skyline of Downtown many Sims were wondering if the mayor, mister Fletcher Bowron, has gone nuts to allow the construction of such a huge tower. Short after that, all the operation was soon caught in the media...

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...especially the opening day.

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Because the Library Tower was in 1989:

-The tallest building in CaliSIMfornia.

-The tallest west of MisSimssippi river.

-Because local building codes, it is the tallest skyscraper with a roof-top heliport.

-Until the completion of the Taipei 101, the Library Tower was the tallest structure ever built on major active seismic region.

and it was designed to resit an earthquake 8.3 on the Richter scale.

-When opened, the tower didn't have a logo on its crown. Some years later it was perfectly visible the 'I' of First Interstate Bank logo on the top of its crown. Nowadays we can see the sign of Us Corp, which it means that the tower is tallest building with a highest placed logo.

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When opened, works for the renovation of the Library Square haven't finished yet, but here there's an idea of how did the square look like by then.

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The picture above shows the annexe new building of the Central Library, which in fact it is nothing but an expantion of the original Central Library. New gardens have been added and finally, Hope Street now runs one block away behind the Mellon Bank Building, not seen in the picture. The most important thing it is that the historical Edison building was not torn down and it looks like that it is no more isolated in between the new skyscrapers. The same thing with the Central Library building, which is now more integrated into the urban landscape.

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Yes. The space between the Citygroup Center and the Library Tower, the one where until 3 years ago used to run Hope St. is now taken by a new landscape: the Bunker Hill Steps. Here they are, looking north.

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The Bunker Hill Steps opened to public in 1990. They are a kind of a neoclassical extravagance steps, Italian-Spanish style, with a Greco-Roman big fountain on the top. Here they are, looking south, as viewed one block away from Hope St:

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Here's the crown of the tower lit up on any given night

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Downtown skyline during a sunset, looking south, with a view of Pershing Square on the left, and in the middle the Library Tower. Among others, the Aon Center Tower, both City National Plaza towers, Union Bank, Citgroup or the 444 building, with the Wells Fargo and One California Plaza are also at sight.

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Downtown with the new skyscrapers and its industrial area, looking south as viewed from Elysian Heights in 1989.

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Looking north, lit up at night. The tower looks like an enormous lighthouse.

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Edited March 12, 2012 by SIMplemente

simlink · March 1, 2012

Nice looking tower! Good work.

SIMplemente · March 4, 2012

14- Traffic problems on Grand Avenue!

Life is a true challenging.

Before the years of the 'bunkerhillization', this section of Grand Avenue in Bunker Hill was like a beatiful boulevard leading you to a residencial place with great victorian homes. Sims used to put on their 'sunday suit', and after going to the church, they would have a walk on Grand contemplating the lovely victorian homes, dreaming of buying one of them some day.

More later, as a result of the 'bunkerhilization' all those victorian homes and resorts were torn down. Grand Avenue was widened and during more than a decade, it was closed to traffic. No more dreaming walkings on Grand! As developers were thinking on what to built on Grand, the avenue seemed like a dusty road crossing the Mohave desert: there was nothing across the avenue. Victorian homes were gone with the wind.

One day they built a skyscraper there, some years later they built another one, which it means cars, buses, traffic congestion. In 1989 with the completion of the Library Tower, traffic jams and accidents at 4th and Grand Avenue happen everyday. If you were about to go to work to the new California Plaza tower, or to the Library Tower coming from east, you'd take the Hollywood Freeway, and you'd exit on Grand. If you come from south, northbound of the Harbor Freeway, exit at 5th St will take there. As a result, and in addiction with the incoming traffic on 4th, coming from west, 4th and Grand Ave intersection has become a nightmare from drivers. Sims are always late to work due the traffic jams and accidents on 4th st and Grand.

That's life. From a residencial boulevard, to a new widened avenue closed to traffic, And now, when it's been only 5 years since it opened to traffic again, Grand Avenue needs new improvements...

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That's the way things are...

The City of L.A. had some extra Simleons after selling the Hollywood sign to a millionaire... What about to build an overpass on Grand and fix the problems with traffic at the intersection with 4th? The mayor and his advisors thought that if they don't act now, things would be worse in the future... Not only a new skyscraper was approved... There were some more importants projects to do on Grand, and first of all they need to fix the problems with the traffic congestion...

So, put your shoulders to the wheel!

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In real life, works to fix the 4th St. and Grand intersection were done circa 1954.

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Final note:

The word 'mayor' is misspelled. I typed 'major' when I was writing the lines for the comic. I apologize, as english is not my natural born language. Thank you very much.

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vivapanda · March 4, 2012

I like the comic! Another awesome update!

nathanthemayor · March 4, 2012

Wow!Your work is amazing!Maybe a region view to see what the whole downtown looks like?

SIMplemente · March 7, 2012

15- Under Construction

You've seen it in the posts nº4 and nº5 on this thread. You also read it in the media...

The opening day of the City National Plaza complex, also know as the Arco Twin Towers, the mayor of Los Angeles, mister Fletcher Bowron said: 'Downtown is not gonna be the Manhattan in Southern CaliSIMfornia'. He said it in 1972. Of course, he was lying. Because the last part of a long illness created by the City Planner Advisor, mister Parking Lot, in 1969 and known as 'Skyscraper mania' will go ahead during the 90's and it won't stop until the year 2000.

Do you remember the magaSIM 'SIMangeleno Reviews'?

Of course you do.

Here's the cover of the MagaSIM from April, 1989, released short after the completion of the Library Tower.

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Yes, once again and during 3 or 4 more years, Downtown was 'under construction'. This time, works were done along S. Figueroa St. There was 3 new skyscrapers under construction. One would have thought that it was a contest to check out which tower would be completed first.

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This is downtown as viewed between 1989 and 1990. Cranes, cranes and more cranes along S Figueroa Street. At that time if you were looking for a job, you better get a helmet first, and not a suit and bow tie. In fact, those works to redevelop S. Figueroa Street are what today media called: the Figueroa Corridor. That 'corridor' goes from 1st St. to Pico Boulevard, from north to south, across S Figueroa St. It features apartments or condo towers (like the Bunker Hill towers) office skyscrapers ( Union Bank Plaza, Arco Plaza, etc) hotels and resorts and entertainment...Bye bye to all those parking lots...

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Money makes the world go around. Cranes too, at least in Downtown L.A. And thanks to mister Parking Lot, the City Planner, they never stopped working. Not even in the evenings.

The same on Bunker Hill. Now that the traffic problems in Grand Avenue have been solved thanks to the Traffic Advisor, mister James Jams, mister Parking Lot, the City Planner, without asking anyone, he just approved the construction of a new tower there... The tower will be built soon between Grand Ave. and Olive St. at the 4th St intersection...

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Excuse me.

I don't feel like typing anything else for this City Journal. I want to read the press of the those years...

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An old church to be tear down? Wow!

Mister Parking Lot do not have respect for nothing and no one. He doesn't respect God either. And so do property investors.

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As it's shown in the picture, due the works for the new skyscraper S. Figueroa St got narrower from 2 lanes to only 1.

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The old Church is gone! Adiós... ¡Hasta la vista!

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But incoming traffic from Wilshire Blvd runs in front of the construction site with no problem.

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And a few blocks away from Figueroa St and Wilshire Blvd, the noise of cranes, steel, concrete, trucks, workers has became unbearable!

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I'm so stressed out with all that noise!

I'll be right back. I got another paper to read.

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Oh a music festival in the new park?

Sounds interesting. Well, sounds good for miss La Vanda Flower, the former Environment Advisor. She always loved the golden flower-power years. She's out of fashion but I won't miss her at all. On the other hand I'm glad that Willy was finally found, even inside of a lunch bag of a worker, He'd be probably hungry. Willy, I meant. Or probably both.

Ok. Coming back to downtown under construcion...

In Figueroa and Wilshire... Let's hope that a new building could replace and look any better than an old church... Go figure!

But, in exclusive... I already have the look of the base of the tower...

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How would it look like when completed?

Meanwhile, and if you like the unknown, the mysterious, and the supranatural here I bring you a good magaSIM to read!

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See you in the next post.

Edited March 28, 2012 by SIMplemente

vivapanda · March 7, 2012

I really like those newspapers! The names and titles made me laugh there's been a lot of effort on this update I can see, good job, keep on going!

Charlie_Zane · March 8, 2012

You have put a lot of work into your city! It looks a lot like the real deal! haha

SIMplemente · March 13, 2012

16- A new skyline and lots of litter in the streets.

Hello mates! Last time I saw you we were in the middle of something... What was it?

Oh yes, we were 'under construction in South Figueroa St'. We were developing what today is known as the 'Figueroa St Corridor'. It was something like this...

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This one:

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or this one:

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Formerly known as Simwa-wa-wá Bank Building from its early days, the tower was soon renamed as

Figueroa at Wilshire. It was logical: the tower was built at the intersection between S. Figueroa St and

Wilshire Blvd.

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It was designed by Albert C. Martin & Associates. It's a 53 storey and 219 m height (719ft) skyscraper, and with its geometric shape, like a hexagon, it has violently altered the old downtown skyline. And as seen in the

picture above, it has a crown that it can be lit up at nights.

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The tower faces the noisy highway to be an important center of business beyond Bunker Hill skyscrapers, in what the mayor called: the 'Figueroa St Corridor'. And for the very first time, Sims like the building, because whenever they walk around, they

can not resist themselves to the impulse to start counting how many hexagons the building can have or it fact how many it has as it rises up.

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By 1991 another building, located in 777 S Figueroa St was in construction, but we'll talk about it later. Just a few months after the opening of the Figueroa at Wilshire building, on 9th St, corner with S. Figueroa there was a crane, and Sims were busy in the construction site of a new tower.

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But there was something new, or something different in Downtown. Probably it has been there during many years, but Sims couldn't notice it... It was something in the air, and something across the streets...

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Riots, strikes, and litter on the streets made of Downtown a strange place to live... It happens when, being a 'super' mayor, you put all you simleons only to build highrises and parks... Then, when you forgot about education, health, or building just a simple landfill waste, is when you find your Sims angry and very mad at you...And in 1991, in the middle of riots, protests and tons of litter, the tower at 9th St with Figueroa, finally was completed.

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It's the TCW Tower: 39 floors and 158m (517ft) tall.

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Here's the 'new' skyline, with the old Occidental Building at the right side of the image.

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An aerial view of downtown, with the L.A. river soon to be channelized

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The opening day of the TCW Tower, Sims were wearing a clothespin on their noses, because...

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Oops, I'm gonna get mine now! Brb!

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SIMplemente · March 15, 2012

17 - 777... Walmart!

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Sim City Downtown Los Angeles, South Figueroa St, summer 1991...

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It's the César Pellin building in construction, and it's located in 777 S. Figueroa St...

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Designed by César Pelli, and completed in 1991 is a 221 m. (725ft) tall and 52 floors skyscraper. It's known as the 777 Tower, and together with the neighboring building, the Ernst'n'Young Plaza, both form part of the 7th + FIG: the right place to spend your $L!

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The tower looks fine in L.A.

If developers were about to build it in another place one should say that the building looks a little 'gothic'... And dark, with all those ornamental sharp needles, like old battlements in a medieval castle.

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But on the other hand, things are even more intriguing at nights...

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Why the crown of the building has green lights during the night? Is there any alien living up there?

About to know. In Los Angeles anything can happen, and any creature can live there!

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Anyway, the completion of the 777 Tower was a new step in the construction of the Figueroa Corridor.

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Now, let's go back to the City Hall. Let's check out what's going on there. Ah, those mayor advisors, they never shut up!

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Wow! Even the Mayor agrees that those parking lots are boring and useless!

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Well, if the Mayor is sure, and if the city has the money... Let's work!

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Now.

They're working to make Sims happy! They're building a temple for shopping!

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Removing parking lots! Working day and night!

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Get your wallet ready, because it's almost done...

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No more car races to go shopping to Wilshire or to Hollywood. Now all that is over. Because now, Sims have the first Walmart in downtown! You feel like shopping?

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Ah! Now downtown looks very different! It's almost human!

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vivapanda · March 15, 2012

Wow! Two very impressive updates! I really like where you're going with your CJ!

SIMplemente · March 16, 2012

18 - Another promise.

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And everybody knows that there's nothing to fish in the L.A river, except an old shoe or maybe a dead rat. So, was it a real promise? Was the Mayor telling the true? Go figure!

rewright · March 16, 2012

Top notch presentation my friend. Very entertaining! They say if a politician's lips are moving, they are telling you a story.

vivapanda · March 17, 2012

Very nice story, I'm impressed how well you terraformed the river. Especially since you've already build in the area, awesome work!

SIMplemente · March 17, 2012

REPLIES.

Sim_link

Nice looking tower! Good work.

I guess you meant the US Bank Tower/Library Tower.

The Bat was made by Rickk, and he did a great job. And once again fiction goes any further than reality because, in my opinion, the tower -though its height- does not silhoulette or stand out very good among the other buildings. Is it a problem of textures? Is it because the tower is not enought tall? It doesn't matter. In real life you only notice that the Library Tower is there only at nights because of its crown. During the day seems unnoticed maybe because of the materials of its white facade. White colour does not catch your eye, and your sight goes first towards the others towers, like for instance, to the Aon Center Tower (dark coloured) the Wells Fargo (some kind of brown coloured) or the California Plazas. Not my favourite building in LA, neither in Sim City!

Nathanthemayor

Wow!Your work is amazing! Maybe a region view to see what the whole downtown looks like?

Thank you very much. You're very kind. I guess that if If I was about to show you guys my region you'll probably will think that it's very boring to see: except this part of Downtown I'm working in, there's nothing else built. I have to create mountains and modify the river. When it's done, I will show you soon!

City_master

You have put a lot of work into your city! It looks a lot like the real deal!

Thank you. But above all, I'm enjoying this much... But the only L.A. good to see, it's the one they show us in the movies!

Rewright

Top notch presentation my friend. Very entertaining! They say if a politician's lips are moving, they are telling you a story.

LoL! I do really believe that all policians are always telling us stories! And my mayor does too! Many thanks in deed for your comment!

Vivapanda

Very nice story, I'm impressed how well you terraformed the river. Especially since you've already build in the area, awesome work!

Since you were the first one to comment this crazyness

I look on you as my 'godfather' here in Simtropolis. Your comments encourage me to go on and get over with this as soon as possible. Thank you very much for your words. But this time I guess I did a huge mess with all the story about the river... LoL! Silly me!

So, now I guess I should show you all this mess about the river and another lesson I've learned well: the terraform tool works perfectly, and your only goal might be, not to finish the work, but to be PATIENCE! I didn't take any picture while I was working in the river of my city. Any picture, because I was about to use up my patience, so I didn't feel like taking pics... But I still have some of my trials... Maybe I could show you a few and we will pretend that they're the good ones and we won't tell to anybody...

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vivapanda · March 17, 2012

Haha godfather, I like that I once tried to make an entire canal system with the terraform tool, I know how frustrating it can be

SIMplemente · March 21, 2012

19 - Busy: building, canalizing, towering, digging and ruling this city!

Building works in a metropolis, in every megacity around the world never stop: pipes, new drain system, underground power or telephone lines, tunnels, rail network, new skyscraper foundation... All at the same time! Awow! That's the only way to grow a city.

And in Los Angeles Sim City they know that very well!

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Yes. Our simangelenos know that very well, especially since their Mayor announced them the channeling of the Los Angeles River. Those are titanic, huge and colossal works for the city. Have a look here:

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We can check out that the works are very advanced.

But how did it all begin?

This is the L.A. river, looking east, on its course through Downtown.

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If we were about to move towards south, very close to Redondo junction rail yard, the river would look like this:

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There is a very busy cargo rail network system on both sides of the river...

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So, the first thing to do, it is to build a dam. This is a provisional dam and it will be used to control the flow of the river. The dam will also help us also to cut off the water, leaving dry the river bed...

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Now, we drive those bulldozers and cranes on both sides of the river and on the river bed, and we can begin to create the canal/channel with those concrete walls...

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Digging and digging, creating straigh lines -thanks God for the Terraform- and working on a 'dry' river, sooner or later works will be done...

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But watch out your cranes and the rest of your equipment when you open the gates of the dam! It's a very expensive machinery!

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Ok. We're lucky. Our Mayor is rich man and he agrees to pay new machinery for works to channeling his beloved river!

How cool!

And here's the final result...

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Of course there are a lot of improvements to make: pipes, drains, transportation (metro, railnet, roads) structures (bridges) or power plants...

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Not to mention to level the ground: a new ground reclaimed from the river, in which it will be possible to build some new factories and other commercial buildings to expand the industrial area....

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This is progress! This is life, as long as your simoleons budget can afford to make it happen...

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Now, 7th St bridge looks like this:

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1st St bridge and Aliso St viaduct (the freeway bridge), looking north. Right side of the pic it's the east part of the river, left side corresponds to the west side.

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Same view, looking south, with the César Chávez bridge in the foreground. The square building, with its orange roof is the Main Post Office Building.

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L.A. river, looking east, from left to right bridges at sight are: 4th St., 6th St., 7th St., and the Santa Monica Freeway Bridge.

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Same view, looking south. Interchanges of the freeways (Sta Monica, I-101 and the Golden State Fwy) are at sight.

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L.A. river looking east, with the City Hall tower building in the foreground. Bridges at sight are César Chavez St, metro and railnet, Aliso Viaduct and 1s St. bridge.

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So, was it worth to make it?

I dont know. Sims don't seam very happy with their new industrial area, as they're already tired of smoke and pollution. I'm afraid I will have to contact the Mayor and suggest him to change his plans: what about to build, in the new land reclaimed from the river, a new residencial area instead of an industrail area?

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Explanation:

In real life, works to change the river flow began in 1938, shortly after the completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, a super huge work of extreme engineering designed by William Mulholland.

The Los Angeles River was the primary water source for the Los Angeles basin, but much of its channel had extremely low discharge except during the winter rains. Unpredictable and devastating floods continued to plague it well into the 1930s. The most notable one being the catastrophic 1938 flood that precipitated the recall of Los Angeles then-mayor Frank L Shaw, leading to calls for flood control measures. The Army Corps of Engineers duly began an ambitious project of completely encasing the river's bed and banks in concrete, with only a trickle of water usually flowing down its middle. Ever since, it has served primarily as a flood control channel, fed by storm drains. Today, this intermittent river flows for most of its 51 miles (82 km) through a narrow concrete channel.

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Sources:

LAPL (Los Angeles Public Library)

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia....s_Angeles_River

The L.A. river as seen today, with the 6th St bridge in the foreground:

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nathanthemayor · March 22, 2012

Hmm I'm not sure if the LA river is that wide in RL...

Anyways, nice work! I really like how you are doing this!

simlink · March 22, 2012

Liked watching the process - it is very creative. Nice work!

vivapanda · March 22, 2012

Great construction work!

SIMplemente · March 26, 2012

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Nathanthemayor

Hmm I'm not sure if the LA river is that wide in RL... Anyways, nice work! I really like how you are doing this!

Thank you, thank you very much. I bet it would have been cool the reconstruction of such a very dry river like this one! But this is what I've got: just another river!

Sim_link

Liked watching the process - it is very creative. Nice work!

Muchas gracias. Thank you very much. It was hard to make it though

Vivapanda

Great construction work!

Thank you Godfather, but I hope you wont ever ask me to build an entire ocean: It could be exhausting!

SIMplemente · March 28, 2012

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20 - The Vessel

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Downtown Los Angeles Sim City does not have any coastline, neither a port nor a harbour. But they already had an elegant, tall and atractive lighthouse. Now, despite of not having any coastline, neither a port, nor a harbour, but having a lighthouse, they needed a vessel just in the very heart of downtown.

Ah, those Simangelenos and their whims!

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It's the year 1991 and it seems that something is underconstrucion in Bunker Hill.

Let's have a look, a little bit closer...

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Yes, once again something is happening in Grand Avenue, but all I can say is that in one of the construction sites, they are busy building their vessel...

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And their vessel turned out to be the Gas Company Tower aka The Southern CaliSIMfornia Gas Company Building.

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Builded between 1988 and 1992 this magnificent building was the final part of the Library Square redevelopment, after the 1986 fires of the Central Library. Located in 555 5th Street, corner of South Grand Avenue and South Olive St, the building stands at the former Biltmore Hotel Garage Building, cortesy of the city planer, mister Parking Lot.

Designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merril (a team of architects also known as S.O.M) the building is 228 m (749ft) tall and has 52 grounds.

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Not the tallest in the city, but it is very recognizable for its vessel/ship shape ormamental crown...

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Now, all downtown inhabitants are unhappy and they are wondering why their mayor is able to spend millions and millions of simoleons building a very tall lighthouse and a vessel made of concrete and steel, in this part of the city where there is not any little piece of ocean, and any coast side, neither a port nor harbour, with the exception of the harbor freeway...

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Not my favourite building, but I think it looks cool in Donwtown Los Angeles Sim City!

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vivapanda · March 28, 2012

Amazing work, I actually do like how the tower looks, it fits very nice in the surroundings!

SIMplemente · April 9, 2012

21 - California Plaza

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The last tower of the new Sim City Downtown Los Angeles to be built was the Two California Plaza Tower, built between 1990 and 1992. The tower was built to complete the California Plaza Complex (watch post nº 11) and it has been the last skyscraper ever built in Bunker Hill. Well, so far.

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California Plaza Project includes the One California tower, the Coldburn School of how to be a Hollywood star. It also houses de MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art), the Water Court and Fountains, the Angel's Flight -the shortest funicular in the world- and the new skyscraper: Two California Plaza.

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The tower was designed by Arthur Erickson Architects and it is also known as Deloitte&Touche. Works began in 1990 and the tower was completed in 1992. When completed, the tower opened to public with only 30% of its space leased, in the middle of a financial crisis that was raging throughtout the city.

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Two California Plaza is located in 350 South Grand Avenue, in Bunker Hill district. The tower is 228 m. (750 Ft) tall and it has 54 floors, plus 6 underground floors.

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In 1996 the Angel's Flight -the shortest funicular int he world- was totally renewed, and it opened to public like in the old times: one could go to the top of the hill -Bunker Hill- from the station in Hill Street, to the upper station in Olive Street. The renovation was succesfull, and the Sims enjoyed the Angel's Flight a lot, especially all those employees of the new tower.

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The California Plaza Project was originally planned to inlcude 3 high rise tower office buildings, intead of the two already completed.

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Three California Plaza with 65 floors, was planned for a site just north of 4th St., directly across Olive St. from California Plaza's first two office highrises and was planned to house the Metropolitan Water District's permanent headquarters...

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The City Planner, mister Parking Lot, said by then that Downtown had already many high rise office towers, and in the middle of the crisis wasn't a good idea the go ahead with the construction of a new skyscraper. At the same time, the Mayor of the city, insists that the tower will be built.

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Susaji · August 5, 2012

Nice City!

Markus J · August 7, 2012

My gosh, your updates are huge, and so many of them too! i also see you're starting to reply to people, which is good.

I'm interested in this, as it's another Los Angeles.

It's interesting, I've been comparing yours with mine, two different animals entirely. Keep it up, you've got a good direction with this.

asdfasdf13 · November 23, 2013

Great city !!!

Downtown Los Angeles

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