Entry 24: Top floor please!
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Kim Sunwoo: You sure were looking at the same CJ, I'm not sure I would say they were top level photogrpahs lol but thanks, I'm really glad your enjoying them and the story behind it!
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Entry 24: Top floor please!
Right then, Prince James back again this time with a much more positive entry for you all! This time without any imminent social, financial and (probably somehow) environmental collapse!
Instead today, we'll focus on how the newest part of the city has quickly risen (literally) to be the place to be in Gabtoria.
Anyway lets actually start showing you what I'm on about rather than continue to randomly sprout phrases. First off you may (or may not, it was a couple of days ago) remember that I had shown a picture that had what looked like the beginning of a CBD in the background in the last entry (the one with the port in it in case anyone is confused right now). Well this is the how the area looked at that point in time.
As you can probably tell this area was a rather desperate attempt to bring some people back into the area while we had our massive land value disaster. Well rather luckily, it would seem that either the businesses situated here bought the land just before the crash happened and decided to stay on in the hope that it would recover, or that they were just stupid and oblivious to the fact that the country and city may well have been about to go the way of the Dodo.
Either way we ended up with this nice area of shops and offices on the cliffs and coastline of the Gabtorian Bay (you can see the port in the background and a ship taking lumber goods out of the country).
Now when the land value disaster suddenly recovered and people actually wanted to move to the city again, it was safe to say that this area became rather sought after in terms of location and as such many of the businesses took advantage of this and either sold up at a very nice profit, or rebuilt with larger premises.
As you can see in the above image, higher density buildings started to pop up for both residential and commercial use, beginning to give Gabtoria an actual downtown area. Meanwhile, I decided that we needed some recreational areas in all this urban environment so bulldozed some commercial buildings (I'm sure they were going out of business anyway) and built this park.
As you can see this wasn't a half bad idea (unless of course you owned one the buildings that I demolished, in which case you might be a bit annoyed at this point.
Did we even give them some sort of financial compensation?
No, and we conveniently forgot to retain their contact details?
Oppps.
Oh well I'm the Crown Prince, I'm sure they'll forgive me at some point!)
Also of note is that people started seeing the benefit of some greenery around them and apparently pine trees in the middle of the blocks became a thing. Ah well as long as their all happy and paying taxes who really cares.
Now, as exciting as all this upwards growth is, it would be unfair to ignore what is happening in the rest of the city. We also apparently found the people who's businesses we may have ruined so we can pop in and see how their doing!
See told you they would be enjoying their lives in the ever growing affordable housing projects!
Nothing like a good old mobile home and it even looks like they've begun to invest in some neighbourhood tree planting. Bonus!
Also of note is increased traffic issues that still keep emerging, this time on the Prenston Industrial State highway and the Prenston Interchange, where as you can see from the following photo's, The ever growing, widening and convoluted Prenston Interchange still has nothing on the the confusion and general screw up that is the entrance to the actual industrial estate.
Oh well at some point I'm sure we'll probably have to sort this thing out properly but for now the tailbacks have cleared so its all good.
And with that lovely news and wanting to leave this entry on a actual high rather than pushing my luck until we nose dive again, here are a couple of random images of our growing city showing both the narrow, hemmed in streets that are becoming the norm in our downtown and a sweeping panoramic of it.
Anyway, that's all for this happy, positive entry so join us next time where hopefully it'll continue!
Till then
Crown Prince James
(OOC: So yer, I've decided to add some height to the city rather and give it a actual centre. Not sure if it's actually got the height to achieve that goal yet but were getting there.
Cheers
James)
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