Portburg #2 - A new beginning

Welcome back to Portburg! 

The mayor and city council quickly began to make plans to turn Portburg to a great town once again. The mayor used his contacts in different banks and businesses to get loans for their new projects. The first they had in mind was to establish a Technical college to educate engineers for PGM and other factories in town. 

After six months of building the mayor attended the opening ceremony of Portburgs Technical College (PTC).

PTC is located in the west end of Portburg Avenue, some new apartment houses with small apartments for students where built around the new college. 

After the opening ceremony the mayor and city council got in their cars and drow out on the motorway. The traveled north about to visit their next project they had founded with loans from the countrys biggest banks. 


New motorway interchange just north of the Bluff. 


New road leading from the interchange towards an area called Amber Forest. Here the city together with the Hudson Forestry Company would start a forest industrial business. The city would build the infrastructure for the new village close to the forestry area. These trees would hopefully get tax money flowing into the citys accounts.


Initial road layout of the village of Amber, you can also see the cargo trainstation that was built to export most of the forestry products.


After a year it was clear that the investment was a success. People had been pouring into the city to work in the new forestry industry. Amber village had become overcrowded so the city decided to expand the village. 


Another six months later the village inhabitants themselfs built new roads to get room for more houses. Most of the inhabitants in Amber village lives in trailers, many haven't had time to build real houses yet. 


A company called Castle Real Estate approached the city council. They had found an area just south of Amber village they where interested in and wanted to give people a chance to build their dream house. Castle Real Estate would fund the infrastructure themselfs and sell the plots to citizens and people from neighboring areas. Their plan was approved by the city council without much hesitation. 


Castle Real Estate began constructions soon after and it was finished a few months later. 

The new plots of land got sold surprisingly fast. 


After six months the first houses was being finished and many more would follow soon after. 


The new amounts of tax money that was put into the citys treasury was used to start the construction on a new development close to the downtown at The Bluff. It was a somewhat modified version of the general plan from 1958. As the picture show a new arterial road was built, it runs from the college out to the bluff. 


The initial road layout on the Bluff, the city planned this to be an area with apartments for the now pretty fast growing population. How it went will be shown in the next entry.

Welcome back next time!