Welcome to Freeport

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Heres a good beginning at the Freeport City Square

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Here is Downtown Freeport as it stands today.


Here's what Freeport looked like back in the city's beginnings.

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Freeport Country Club on West Fourth Street and the estates of the Westside

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This is an overview of the Freeport Area freeway network

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At the far southern tip of the city an Army Base was built.



A whole new community sprouted up around the base on Military Blvd.

[Mikeaut1 261]

Beautiful!!!!

I live right 5 miles away from a town named Freeport! It definitely looks good, especially that region shot.

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Bird eye's view of the city.

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University Area in Southeast Centre


More typical residential area around Southeast Centre.

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The Pine Hills Galleria was recently built in the middle of a small quiet bedroom community.

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Wow! What a nice city! Whats the traffic like?

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Full view of Downtown


Night view of Downtown

[ChicAgo333 2]

WOW

 

[The Big Z 103]

Great job!  I really like how you have your downtown structured and the transit system looks very realistic.  I look forward to seeing more screens from your region!

[subedei 3]

Really nice downtown you have. I am looking forward to seeing more of your region. keep up the great work.

 

 

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[Mikeaut1 261]

This was a nice update! Love all the detail.

How many people live in Freeport?

 

Edit - I think you make the difference between high rise to low rise in some spots too obvious. Try zoning some medium rise right on the outskirts of where the tall buildings are for a realistic and better look.

[andrew george 0]

That aerial shot of Downtown Freeport is very impressive indeed!

 

Good work.

 

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Date: 10/2/2004 10:21:45 AM
Author: Mikeaut1

This was a nice update! Love all the detail.

How many people live in Freeport?

Edit - I think you make the difference between high rise to low rise in some spots too obvious. Try zoning some medium rise right on the outskirts of where the tall buildings are for a realistic and better look.

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For some reason I can't get any new residents to move to the main city. 151K commercial and only 108K residential and 26K industrial. When new medium density buildings are built, the they can't find their way to jobs, buildings abandon so I just end up zoning more commercial and have neighbors that are mostly residential.

Now when I think about it. I dont even have high density residential in that part of town.

[SkyTearer 10]

Looking good!

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Early morning view of the brand new Eastview Waterpark

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Helicopter view of the upper middle class suburb, Garfield

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Highland Junction, growing from a manufacturing suburb to high-tech boomtown.


The edge city Downtown that resulted from the boom.
The auto factory just closed and it will be demolished to make room for more HT

[andrew george 0]

That last pic is really nice - don't you just love it when suburbs turn out like that?

 

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Finally an update at last!

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Freeport has grown considerably since the last update and that required building a larger, newer, state of the art aiport facility. The brand new Freeport International Airport opens today.





The cargo area of the airport




Longterm Parking

[GingerBlokey 30]

Wow I wish my Rush hour disk wasn't broken. (got to get a new one for Xmas) So much insperatrion. This is sooo realistic

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Fisherville, a brand new community. The construction of the new airport nearby fueled the office boom that has turned Fisherville from what was originally planned as a suburb into a mini-city.

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Most of the growth in Freeport occured in the northeast. A new loop is currently being built around the northen eastern portion of the city and half of it is complete.

This is Cinnamon Hills, one of the northeastern suburbs. Its pretty much your standard suburb. Its mostly a residential community but it has an office park, industrial park and a small retail strip.

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This is the City of Rosemeade. This was an independant urban community but recently is has been annexed into Freeport's urban sprawl, however the city still retains its own identity. There's the Old Rosemeade, and the New Rosemeade, which is the more suburban side of the city on the other side of the river.

Original City of Rosemeade. Not too long ago most of this area was in a state of decay.




The newer section of the city:

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Update of downtown Freeport. Even though most of the growth occured outside of the inner city, Freeport did manage to capture some new commercial growth. However, residential growth has remained stagnant.

[mayormommy 8]

I like reptitiveness of your suburbs (really!).  Looks just like what I see from airplane windows all the time. Somehow I must have missed this journal before.