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Part 2: Miller Heights

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Sorry for Part 2 taking so long. I had to go out to exotic west Fort Worth (a.k.a. the edge of civilization) to see family and friends for a few days, and there was no computer access.

 

Now then, Miller Heights is a northern suburb of Verona, with a population of about 21,900 sims.57900a760f35b_Screenshot(44).thumb.png.d

It's a city with something for almost everyone. You have the large office districts with over 8,000 jobs with the one west of the interstate, and over 10,000 with downtown on the east. The tallest building in the city is the Wells Fargo Plaza, which, oddly is outside of downtown. It stands at exactly 300 feet tall rising 24 stories above the SimPlanet.Untitled.thumb.png.893cd9e708499d40dd4bc

Yes, I'm aware this picture collage looks like it was made in MS Paint, and it was actually. I know it's not the best quality, but it's the best I can do for right now.

Anyway, the first picture (top left) shows the luxury Westfield Estates neighborhood next to the not-so-luxury Miller Heights Consolidated School. The City Council is deciding whether to demolish it and put another school in place or not. The people living along Richland Parkway (bottom of pic) and Williams Avenue (right side of pic) often complain of traffic but the city refuses to do anything about it, citing that houses are already there and putting sound walls would force the houses along Richland and Williams to be demolished. The city also reports that these houses were built before the main roads became so busy.

 

The second picture shows most of downtown Miller Heights, with some of Lamar Avenue Tower (the white tower at the top of the pic) and another small office building cut out.

Downtown Miller Heights is a large hub for corporation headquarters unlike Downtown Verona which mostly houses branches of large bank corporations.

It is home to RLS Development Inc., Tsang Accountants, Arvis Insurance, and a couple of other video game and computer corporations.

 

The third picture (bottom left) shows where the city started, the Highland Park subdivision. It offers houses for everyone, no matter if they're poor, middle class, or filthy rich. It's the perfect neighborhood for everyone of all ages.

 

The fourth and final picture today shows "Consumer Center" and the apartments just south of Downtown surrounding Consumer Center.

Consumer Center is the main shopping area in Miller Heights, where everyone gets their groceries in town. Consumer Center is home to the local BJ' warehouse and Food Lion as well as a Piggly Wiggly, Mill's Fleet Farm, a Verizon Wireless Store, and NorthPoint Mall, where all the CoOl aNd HiP kIdS gO tO.

 

That's all I have for today, but Part 3 will be out soon. See you next time!

 

 

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Nice classic style medium city, simcity play ! Time always catches up with development; planning ahead; if they don´t like the noise they can alway´s move. Good use of the elevated RHW. Pictures below indeed not very well. Where they genrated with the day-night settings ? Paintshop or any program does the jo better. Some trouble with the double pictures; better take a hosting service like Photobucket or Imageshack or else, quit unlimited working with library maybe slow eventually. Free extra Hotmail adres may ease it using a extra account, more space, handling may need a extra email program or one wich handles more  accounts, well done !

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3 hours ago, kschmidt said:

Nice classic style medium city, simcity play ! Time always catches up with development; planning ahead; if they don´t like the noise they can alway´s move. Good use of the elevated RHW. Pictures below indeed not very well. Where they genrated with the day-night settings ? Paintshop or any program does the jo better. Some trouble with the double pictures; better take a hosting service like Photobucket or Imageshack or else, quit unlimited working with library maybe slow eventually. Free extra Hotmail adres may ease it using a extra account, more space, handling may need a extra email program or one wich handles more  accounts, well done !

Thanks! About the bottom pic, the only other paint program I have besides MS Paint is Clip Studio Paint, and I have no idea how to work it. But I bet I could use Photobucket and Paintshop. And the Day and Night lighting in those pics are by the game.

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The way you built that residential subdivision reminds me of an older city of mine. Having a street next to a road/avenue and with surrounding walls. Nice mix of American-style highrises in there, though it feels a little congested in a small sized city, it'd like to see you build on a medium sized city tile.

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14 hours ago, Takingyouthere said:

The way you built that residential subdivision reminds me of an older city of mine. Having a street next to a road/avenue and with surrounding walls. Nice mix of American-style highrises in there, though it feels a little congested in a small sized city, it'd like to see you build on a medium sized city tile.

Thanks! I based the town off of Addison, Texas, which is only about 4 square miles in area, which is why its on a small tile. But I'm working on a city like that on a medium tile.

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