Middletown Commerce & Industry
But first, thank you for welcoming back here, folks -- mattb325, randyE, kschmidt, dedgren, korver, Artimus, Larry-you-know-who-you-are, all of you who like smaller, more laid back cities ! :-)
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in Middletown, commerce has known spurts of new growth each time new residentials zone were open to construction, eating away at the fields and woodlands. Thus there is no unique big commercial zone but several smaller ones all over town -- which does wonder for traffic, as residentials and commercial zones intermingle convivially.
1. This is the first commercial zone -- it has had time to grow bigger buildings, but skyscrapers are not in its future (if only because of the "no-more-than 6 levels up" municipal ordinance...)
2. Here's the hotel where P. R. is staying, in the west part of town, away from the hustle and bustle (well, very relative hustle and bustle...)
3. Let's go for the close-up of the central commercial zone. Impressed yet ? Well, the Middletownians are.
4. And by night, it's.... Well, lit.
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7. P. R. liked this one place, with the more modern feel -- signs that things are changing in MIddletown...:
8. But mostly, the nights are not exactly blazing in Middletown (which is as well, since P. R. needs real dark in order to sleep, when on the road.)
9. Yet, things are changing in Middletown, mainly because of the friendship between the Mayor, Arielle Brownstone, and college pal become wealthy industrialist Matthew B. Celdane : she's convinced him to bring high tech companies to Middletown. Located in the west part of town, they're flourishing.
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11. They have struck a truce with the remaining farmers... [hmmm... trying the less large size ; seems smugmug's images are not as sharp in larger sizes.. at least mine...]
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13. Especially Pedriana Pharmaceuticals :
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15. There is manufacturing as well as Hitech, but HT is predominant.
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18. And there is this Mies Van Der Rohe-ish building, that Arielle Brownstone loved so much that she began to entertain a burning desire to accelerate Middletown"s modernization. And that's when life began to become (a little bit...) more exciting for the town. More about that next time.
Next : Excitement !
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