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The St. Paul’s Building is an historic office building located at the corner of Barrington and Prince Streets in Downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Named for nearby St. Paul’s church, the five storey building was built in 1897 for prominent Halifax entrepreneur, George Wright. Wright made his fortune in guide books and invested in real estate, including the Marble Building (aka Wright’s Building) two doors down. The Dumaresq family, whose four generations of architects have shaped Halifax, designed the St. Paul’s Building. Over its 107 year history, the building has housed a variety of prominent commercial tenants including the Continental and Lloyds bank branches and the Belgian, Argentinian, Italian and Chilean consultates. As Barrington Street declined in the face of competition for retail and office space from the suburbs, the St. Paul’s Building stopped being a highly sought after address. For much of its recent history, the first three floor housed Halifax’s largest used bookstore, J.W. Dohl. Dohl moved to the suburbs two years ago and the space has been vacant ever since. The upper two floors currently house a variety of professional and legal offices. The St. Paul's Building comes to SimCity on a 1x2 corner lot (both left and right versions). The St. Paul's Building fits wall-to-wall and in setback, textures and style, matches my other bats and JBSimio’s small town set. One dependency, BSC essentials which you should already have if you use any of my other bats.- 17 Comments
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The Vogue Building (aka the D'Allaird Building) is a 5 storey Art Deco structure. It's located on Barrington Street in the heart of Downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The Vogue Building's original three floors were likely built in the 1930s, during the Great Depression. The Depression hit Halifax hard, bringing construction activity in the city to a standstill and making the Vogue Building a fairly unique Halifax example of Art Deco. Around the 1960s, a concrete block addition was added on top of the original Vogue Building to create an additional two floors of office space. The Vogue Building is owned by Barrington Street's largest landowner, Starfish Properties. Starfish plans to incorporate the Vogue Building into its redevelopment of the adjacent Roy Building. In Starfish's plan, the Vogue will remain a separate structure, but plan renderings show a combined roofline and greenspace on top. The Vogue is named for its major tenant, Vogue Optical. Vogue Optical began in Charlottetown PEI in the late 1970s and has grown steadily to 65 locations spread throughout Eastern Canada. In November 2013, a deal was struck to sell Vogue Optical to New Look Eyewear creating a 145 store optical retailer, one of North America's largest The Vogue Building comes to SimCity as a 1x2 corner lot (both left and right corners). I personally think the concrete block addition to the original D'Allaird Building is ugly so I left it off my SimCity version. One dependency, spa essentials (found in BSC essentials) which, if you use any of my other buildings, you should already have. See the readme for a link. -
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The Dominion Public Building is a Canadian federal government office building located on Bedford Row in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It's also known as the Old Post Office Building because it was built in the 1930s to serve as city's main postal station. It is also sometimes referred to as the original skyscrapper because it was Hailfax's tallest for over 30 years. Built during the height of the art deco movement in the 1930s, the Dominion Public Building is a one-of-a-kind structure. It's richly adorned with marine inspired stonework, including several large seahorse statutes at the top of the tower. A four storey addition was added onto the building in the 1960s to provide the postal service with additional administrative space. In the later half of the 20th century, changes in mail technology and in Canada Post's operations left the Dominion Public Building largely vacant. In 1993 it was transferred to Public Works and Government Services Canada's control and the department undertook a major retrofit to convert the space into general office use. The retrofit included glassing over the old 5-7th floor window well to create more contiguous floor plates and a really impressive atrium. Today, the Dominion Public Building is almost fully occupied by PWGSC and the building serves as the department's Regional Headquarters. The Dominion Public Building comes to SimCity as a 5x3, a 6x3 and an 8x3. Two versions, one with an underground garage and one without. Five dependencies, which, if you've been using any of my other bats, you'll probably already have. BSC Essentials(mandatory, query) MJB Mega Props Vol01(optional, small trees in planters) BSC Mega Props CP Vol01(optional, trees, flowers and cars) BSC Textures Vol02 (mandatory, textures) BSC Texture Pack Cycledogg Vol 1 (mandatory, base textures) -
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The Amherst Government of Canada Building is a federal government building in Amherst, Nova Scotia. Constructed in 1975, the building is located at the corner of Havelock and Prince Arthur Streets and serves as the regional headquarters for the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs. Given its small town location, the Amherst GOCB is notable for being a rather large office building. Amherst has just under 10,000 people, but, like Moncton, its location on the Trans-Canada Highway near the geographic centre of the Maritimes makes the town an attractive location for industry and federal government departments. The Amherst GOCB comes to SimCity as 5x5 corner lot (a left and right corner version). Four dependencies that you probably have if you use my other bats. BSC Essentials (mandatory, query) BSC Mega Props CP Vol01 (optional, bikes, shurbs, cars, tree) BSC Texture Pack Cycledogg Vol 1 (mandatory, textures) BSC Textures Vol02 (mandatory, textures) -
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The Shelburne Government of Canada Building (GOCB) is a federal government office building in Shelburne, Nova Scotia. The building was constructed in 1964 during the post-war expansion of the federal government and is one of many GOCBs that were built during the era. A modernist federal government building became a typical feature in small town Atlantic Canada (Montague, Antigonish, Spring Hill, Lunenburg etc). In recent decades, as Atlantic Canada has become more urbanized, the federal government has increasingly concentrated services in larger urban centres. As a result, many small town GOCBs have been left largely empty with just Canada Post as a tenant. Some have been sold to private owners, allowing the federal government to lease space back as a tenant, but a number of buildings, including the Shelburne GOCB, still remain under federal ownership. The Shelburne GOCB provides space for Canada Post and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. The Shelburne GOCB comes to SimCity with two versions, one with a wheelchair ramp on the front like the real building and one with just stairs that will fit on a smaller lot. The rampless version fits on a 3x3 while the ramp version fits on a 3x4. Four dependencies, which if you use any of my other buildings, you should already have: BSCEssentials (mandatory) BSC Mega PropsCP Vol01 (trees, cars, dumpster) BSCTexture Pack Cycledogg Vol 1 (mandatory) BSCTextures Vol02 (mandatory) All are hosted on SC4Devotion and you'll need to be registered and logged in order to download them.- 20 Comments
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Last one for the week! Throughout Halifax, Nova Scotia's pre-War history, two housing styles have dominated: the Halifax Big House and the Halifax Box. The Big House came first in the 1860s after fire decimated much of the old city. The Box replaced the Big House around the 1880s as new suburbs were developed outside of the old core. The typical Halifax Box is a simple two-storey wooden building with an almost flat roof and an off-centre door. Boxes had full kitchens on the main level with a coal-fired furnace and storage in the basement (apples and potatoes!). Boxes in the wealthier suburbs to the West of Robie Street tended to have bay windows whereas the ones East of Robie were built to provide housing for workers and tended to be simpler structures. The worker's Boxes tended to be built wall-to-wall, but frequent narrow gaps were left, which today have become very narrow driveways. This upload replicates the worker's Boxes. For several decades Boxes dominated as Halifax grew. The Halifax Explosion of 1917, however, flattened many of them in the North End and others were lost to new development over the years. The area between North Street, Robie Street and the Citadel, however, was shielded from the Explosion by the hill at Fort Needham and declined economically throughout the late 20th century. The result of being spared disaster and being unattractive to development is that Halifax Central has the greatest surviving concentration of Boxes left in the city. Streets like Bauer, Creighton, Woodill and, in particular, Maynard are still lined with Worker's Boxes and have not changed significantly in 100 years. As Halifax Central has gentrified over the last decade, many Boxes have been renovated and restored to their former glory. Where they were once home to the working class that powered Halifax's factories, they're now increasingly home to the city's urban professionals. Included in this upload are 28 different Boxes, 14 with two windows on the front and 14 with three windows on the front. Each Box is individually textured with a unique front and back. All 28 are part of the same prop family meaning that any Box can be paired with any other for a total of 378 unique combinations! Not to brag, but this is probably one of the most varied single housing sets available The Boxes provide housing for R$$ and come on several lot sizes: 1x2, 2x2, 3x2 and 4x2. The 2x2s include corner versions and the 3x2s and 4x2s come with narrow driveways to reflect that particular Halifax pattern. Four dependencies: BSC Essentials (mandatory), BSC Texture Pack Cycledogg Vol 1 (mandatory), BSC Mega Props CP Vol01 (trees, trash cans and cars) and BSC Mega Props - SG Vol 01 (rose bushes). UPDATED: Fixed the larger lots (2x2 and larger) from growing on low density. Sorry for any inconvenience.- 33 Comments
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Elmwood Apartments is a sunny Victorian apartment building at the corner of Barrington and South Streets in Halifax, NS, Canada. Built in 1890, Elmwood started out as a hotel and originally featured a wrap-around porch and grand entrance on South Street. Its location overlooking Cornwallis Park within easy walking distance of the train station and waterfront made it a prime spot for a hotel in the early 20th century. At some point over the years, the hotel went out of business and the building was converted into apartments. Elmwood is a survivor, dodging fires, modernist vandals and Hurricane Juan (tore the roof off). It's one of only a few large multi-unit wooden buildings that have survived in Halifax to the present day. A lot of the Victorian charm still remains inside including mouldings, wood floors, fireplaces, high ceilings and banisters. I'm particularly attached to Elmwood because I lived in apartment 4 for 11 months (2nd floor front, left corner). The only reason I moved is I bought my own house. Best apartment though that I ever had so I made sure to leave the light on in SimCity in my old unit My version of Elmwood is a very close, but not perfect, replica of the real building. The real building is yellow, but I have included an additional three colour variations (dark blue, green and brown) and left and right corner versions of each model for variety. Elmwood grows on a 3x2 corner lot on medium and high density on the New York and Chicago tilesets. It provides housing for 181 R$$. Four of my usual dependencies, BSC Essentials (mandatory), BSC Texture Pack Cycledogg Vol 1 (mandatory), BSC Mega Props CP Vol01 (trees, cars, flowers) and BSC Mega Props - SG Vol 01 (garbage cans).- 25 Comments
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The Family Vision Centre is an optometrist in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. The building is just off Main Street on Central Avenue and draws its customers from the Town and the surrounding communities. After all the students at Acadia University need to be able to see the front of the class room. The Family Vision Centre fits w2w and is compatible with the small-town set. There are two lots; a growable Cs$$$ and a plop Cs$$$. The Family Vision Centre is part of my Atlantic Canada bat set. A growable and a plop are included in this upload. See the readme for complete details.- 14 Comments
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Paddy's Brew Pub is a pub in tiny Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Wolfville is dominated by Acadia University. The university keeps the town alive and the yearly influx of students keeps bars like Paddy's rolling in the dough. Rumor has it that the grilled chickent is to die for. Paddy's is the second entry in my Atlantic Canada BAT set, which is a set of bats from the various small towns scattered across the region. Paddy's fits w2w on one side and fits with JBSimio's small town set. Paddy's isn't w2w on both sides to allow an alleyway midblock in the small town set. A growable and a plop are included in this upload. See the readme for complete details.- 16 Comments
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The Library Pub is a bar and restaurant in tiny Wolfville, Nova Scotia. The Pub is located on the corner of Main and Elm Streets. The bar shares the building with a coffee shop. The Library Pub is the first entry in my Atlantic Canada BAT set, which is a set of bats from the various small towns scattered across the region. The Library Pub fits w2w on both sides and the lot is made to match JBSimio's small town series. A plop and a growable landmark with jobs are included in this upload. See the readme for complete details.- 26 Comments
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Updated July 28, 2007! All my old files are being updated and re-released to fix a host of minor issues and mistakes I made when I was still learning. The lot and desc files are the same the original meaning that the new version will replace the old one in your cities without any brown boxes as long as you delete the previous version. A BSC Cleanitol file will be available on SC4Devotion's BSC exchange as soon as I have all the updated files released, which will make the job of deleting the old versions easy. The Toronto Dominion Bank (official name Toronto Dominion Canada Trust) is Canada's second largest bank. It dates back to as early as 1855. Its present name came from the merger of the Bank of Toronto and the Dominion Bank in 1954 and the 2000 merger with Canada Trust. The bank boasts the longest hours of the five major Canadian banks so the nightlighting on this BAT is appropriate. However, generally all the useful staff are still on "bankers hours" and are gone at 5:00 or earlier. This BAT is part of my five BAT set of Canadian bank branches that is designed to help relieve some of the monotony of small Maxis commercial service buildings. This is actually the first BAT I ever completed. It is based on a real TD branch located on Spring Garden Road in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Included in this upload is a growable and a ploppable version with identical stats. Both come on a 2x3 lot and provide120 Cs$$. The growable appears on the New York and Houston tilesets. One dependency SPA essentials available here. See the readme for more detailed stat information and installation instructions. Check out my bat thread here or on SC4devotion for detailed information about the updates or my future projects.- 33 Comments
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