Hmmm well I dunno I tried it at the aforementioned location and still land values wouldn't get to acceptable levels. Also i hate to say this but it would have probably ruined the concept of a "Downtown"(Aka more services means less room for skyscrapers)
But anyways, here's the rest of the images I put together from SC3k:
Here's my recreation of Washington, D.C. In my opinion, didn't turn out too bad but it still has some issues
Here's the downtown of a European-style city I made
Here is my recreation attempt at NYC; like with the Dubai-styled city, despite plopping lots of services and parks i've had trouble getting land values up to allow big skyscrapers(Also a bummer that highways cannot tunnel, hence the bridge)
A mosaic shot of my largest city to date(It is actually a heavily modified terrain version of the Riverfront starter town); at the max is has had around 575k sims and I continue to grow it out(But unfortunately it has been suffering through the so-called "Great Depression" of SimCity 3000)
And finally from another SC3k work, I recreated(To the best of my abilities) the town center of a famous movie town. Can anyone guess the movie?
(Hint look at the building on the square-that should give it away immediately)
To wrap this up, I can't believe how long I have been playing this game(Since I was like 7/8 years old, now i'm a freshman in college), how great it is(IMO it is my favorite among the simcity games) and that the disc has survived this long without dying(