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Indiola Part 4: Downtown Ohio

DavidDHetzel

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@BugeyedDragon and @tariely, thanks for the comments! :)

So as per tradition it seems, my game crashes before I can finish the pictures, so here's downtown Ohio City. I had recently done some "surgery" tot he city as I felt I had to many unrealistic skyscrapers, thus downtown looks different from the preview photo.

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This is the area known collectively as the Ol' City. this was considered "downtown" before the big skyscraper boom in Ohio City in the 70s.

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Here we see one of the first and tallest of the Ohio City Skyscrapers, the Portage Building. Below the Portage building are the Governor's mansion, the Senate Building (Aka the "hive") and to the right is the City Hall. 

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Ohio City's tallest tower is the Emerald Building and like that Roundabout filler, is basically due to one of our old mayors obsession with Emeralds. It was built and designed by Cobb & Co and its the building on the far left.

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The Ritzy "Plaza Caledonia" Shopping center

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The Bison Hotel, plus the Emerald Building!

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two of the older buildings, the Metro Baptist Hospital and the Simmons Debyunik Trading Co Offices.

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The Coast

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The Fisherman's Pier

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One non-emerald related thing the old Mayor of Ohio City did, was build a huge statute of himself.

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The Popular Cola Tower, and a building under construction.

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Another look at the Ol' City region.

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Southside apartments. Before the skyscraper boom in the 70s, most the larger buildings were in the southside.

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the State Capitol building and Courthouse.

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Grande Royal Casino, Gambling is legalized in Indiola and this casino is unique in that it crosses over the road below.

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the Gwaltney building. Built and designed by the HK Group. 

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Another photo of the Ohio City coast

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And Finally, a Picture I meant to post on the last update, Hefty Stadium (Sponsored by Heft Garbage Bags), Home of the soccer and football teams in Ohio City (OCFC and Ohio City Aces)

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Hope you enjoyed this update :D

 

 

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Like the skyline, triangle and dome building, shopping center a japanese bat, hospital one piece, no excesive scraper´s nice town , well done !

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Nice mix of buildings and I see you've been messing with the lot editor . Cool entry.

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2 hours ago, raynev1 said:

Nice mix of buildings and I see you've been messing with the lot editor . Cool entry.

actually neither the Casino or the Shopping are my own creations. They are super old lots found in the depths of the STEX.

 

I know the shopping center comes from here -

 

Dont remember where the Casino came from.

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"messing with the lot editor" : the pier ? I kind of like the idea but the result... not so much:-) [at least I think there is no such texture underneath in the original...] Also I always find strange to have high-end parks (with big statues, too) plopped close to a wild rocky area --although the sand & rock areas are well done ! (the picture after the pier)

Again a nice mix of buildings ! (I still cringe at the palm trees, though:-)) And enlighten me : are you playing on a mac ? (in which case the grid would still appear in some places, even with G on, I know, sigh !:-)) It was a good idea to de-skyscraperize, the city looks much more plausible like this.

And another What-Is-That, if I may : the Plaza Caledonia ?

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1 minute ago, tariely said:

And another What-Is-That, if I may : the Plaza Caledonia ?

It's in the above post! :P It's a really old LOT from STEX.

The pier is a Marrasst creation and has been unedited. 

Also the statute was placed there because I need the growth effects :P

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Nice mix of buildings there, the city has an American feel to it. Do you sticky let the city grow or do you plop them as well?

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