jakealake18

Is Zaidi Apartments as big as the R$$s come?

Some of the largest structures I have no problem attracting to my cities - like the Ong Condos and Byall Tower (or am I mistaken - are there larger R$$$ structures?). With some luck and effort, van Prooijen Trading, Lind Entertainment, Cahalane Communications, McClellan Inc, and Fisk Insurance will appear. However, I have only seen Hamster Tenements three times in all of the years I have played SC4, and they have only appeared when my city was brand new (one of them was quickly replaced by McCormick Place - ugh). Project Bootstrap also seems to only be built when my city is new. Furthermore, the largest R$$ structure I have ever obtained is the Zaidi Apartments, and those are still fairly infrequent (it seems like there should be a R$$ structure larger than Zaidi Apartments). Is there any R$$ structure larger than Zaidi Apartments? Is there anything even bigger I have missed? How can I attract more R$ structures the size of Hamster Tenements or Project Bootstrap? Even with demand to the max, these structures rarely or never appear. If all these names have you lost, I can post pics if necessary.

Are certain city configurations inherently unstable? Specifically, I'm having problems when I use avenues instead of roads. The game doesn't seem to know how to deal with them and buildings in the city are randomly and rapidly abandoned and then quickly re-inhabited. Demand is high and there are plenty of jobs in the neighboring region, so I can't think of any reason why this would be happening. I've included a screen shot of the city layout in question. Anyone have any ideas what is wrong with it?

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