Entry no.24 - Downtown Dresden
Drseden's city center is the fifth largest commercial in the region, behind downtown & uptown Pretoria, Calgon & Garden City but ahead of both Cisco Bay & Lindin City and a few others. This which makes it the largest city center I've previewed to date. It's more on the generic side and probably has the lowest amount of custom content of any of the high rise nodes. Out of the 32 buildings that I would consider as being highrises in the downtown core, exactly half(16) are custom content and the other half are generic SC4 vanilla/rush hour buildings. I'm not entirely pleased with the spacing & placement either but the problem is the city suffers from some kind of bug and high density residential buildings simply won't grow despite having high demand and land values. So the city is stuck with the originally built out for residential. That being said, the one thing I really like about the skyline is with how it's nestled in between the ocean and mountain(s). Here's what I mean;
A couple of pano's of the downtown area in relation to Mount Tokiko & the Ring of Steel.
Of course it wouldn't be a city center update without the obligatory top ten tallest buildings list;
In comparison to
Cisco Bay's top 10;
& Lindin City's top 10;
And a new feature going forward as the city centers get taller with be the tallest buildings timeline list.
Timeline of Dresden's tallest;
Name: 330 Pier St.
Height: 210ft / 64m
Tallest from: 1927 to 1931(4 years)
Dresden's first true highrise
Name: The Free Press Building
Height: 255ft / 78m
Tallest from: 1931 to 1961(30 years)
longest stretch of being the cities tallest
Name: Port of Dresden, Control Tower
Height: 316ft / 96m
Tallest from: 1961 to 1973(12 years)
Name: First National Bank Building
Height: 333ft / 101m
Tallest from: 1973 to 1975(2 years)
first building over 300ft / 100m
Name: Smith's Block
Height: 347ft / 106m
Tallest from: 1975 to 1993(18 years)
second longest stretch of being the cities tallest
Name: The Euro Center
Height: 432ft / 132m
Tallest from: 1993 to 2002(9 years)
Name: Concordia Plaza
Height: 442ft / 135m
Tallest from: 2002 to 2008(6 years)
Name: Residence at the DMFNK
Height: 454ft / 138m
Tallest from: 2008 to current(7 years)
The are currently no proposals for a new tallest.
The next update will feature the transportation network of the entire city.
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