Update 29- Riverdale
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Riverdale is a prominent, relatively sprawly city with a denser core that is situated along the Riverdale Avenue Corridor. Downtown, Midtown, and Lower Riverdale are all located along this business corridor and each are only about 2 miles apart. The entire metro area follows the geography of the Oceanside River Valley, which is where it is located, and is also also known for being very hilly with the exception of the RA Corridor.
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Downtown Riverdale. At 715 feet (218 meters), the KMPG News Tower is the tallest building in the Riverdale Metropolitan Area. It is also the fifth tallest building in Henderson that was designed by an architect outside North America. One honorable mention is the Chase Tower at 483 feet (147 meters) that was built after the old Sears Tower collapsed due to a 8.5 earthquake that occurred in 1991.
Midtown Riverdale isn't that interesting however, and although it is still home to some hi-rises most people on travelling on Riverdale Avenue just keep driving by.
However, some people do stop at Western Gallery, Riverdale's very own modern art gallery that opened in 2014.
More buildings in Midtown.
Lower Riverdale, the Northern anchor of the Riverdale Avenue Corridor (it's not the end of it, however). In this picture you can see the Jenkins Building (white tower), Riverdale City Hall (brownish tower), the Nafmis Department Store (blue-yellow building), a Target, and modern apartments (bottom-left) that have rents as high as $2,800 in some units.
The world headquarters for Ouellette Electronics, a premium electronics corporation that has gained popularity in the computer market after its affordable yet premium Smackbook Pro was released in 2009.
Some single family homes near Lower Riverdale.
More homes near LR.
Further down Riverdale Avenue, the street decreases to four lanes and we happen run into the Vu Medical Research Center (orange/red building) and the Eicosakis Biology Center (greyish-blue building), both are research centers that attract college graduates from premium Bay Area colleges as well as East Coast Ivy Leagues back in the United States.
We are about to go down into Riverdale Plains, a small geographic feature that only has three residential buildings that aren't single-family homes. All major buildings are also situated on or near Flatline Avenue.
In this picture, you can see the Riverview Tower, a small distribution center, Plainsview Elementary School, and a police station across from the elementary school.
A close up of Plainsview Elementary and the police station.
As we continue down Flatline Avenue, we reach a curve that helps us see the shore of the Oceanside River better.
Tyler L. Henderson High School. With 2,105 students (2,238 including 8th graders taking freshman classes), THHS serves all of Riverdale Plains and the northern part of the Riverdale Avenue Corridor.
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