Here's Johnny! (watch for the axe)

Well it's time for another update after that little break of mine...I'm sure your all suffering from withdrawl.

A nice one here. This is the beginning of a new public complex in Ostrop. This center here is meant to be an extension of the Path State University campus. Allthough not seen in this shot on the other end of the reflection pond is a new museum. The tenements you can see off to the left are temporary workers homes. Although not showing now this is supposed to be part of the New Center project which would shift the center of city from the north end of the yet to be named freeway (the goverment is probably going to go with Intercorporation Highway #3 (don't want to look like it was our first freeway now do we?)) to the area just south of the Maganama(Mag-ah-nah-maw) mountains. The area is expected to have mostly skyscrapers and buisness plazas and is scheduled for completion in 1960 (the museum, pond, and campus center) and development to end in 1990.

This new campus though is being built entirely by the city as the original founders were...well (Ron Regan)...er uh (JFK)...waiiwhhahwhhaaa?(Edward, inside joke) caught....with....uh how should I put this...mommy's worst enemy(s, yes I know its not spelled that way) uh...dancing...yeah dancing...*quietly to self* that oughta hold the little bastards (doubt anyone knows the reference there ha!).

Ahhh the west end...the less than affluent end of the city. Although not quite pictured here I think it is worth the details (I promise a photo later) to tell you about it. This end of the city was built during the Second Simworld War when masses of immigrants poured into the city. Since they had lost all their possessions in the war they had nothing to bring (which means nothing to pawn off later) so the housing builders took advantage of this and build a few huge tenemants (1 is seen here and 4 or 5 below). This wave prompted quite a few sims to pack up their racist bags and move south along Highway #3 (the other way ends about 6 miles into Shankar). This led up to the founding of the Commonwealth of Ecorse (more on this later).
In this photo we see the startup department store of Roscoe's and Associates. They started here in O.R.T 1925 when the west end was still a small Russim district. They originally started off as small general store but when most of the butchers went under in the Great Meat Scare of '27 they were still the only one in town to offer pick your cow butcher services so they thrived. After this the needed a larger building to store their goods which is the larger one seen here the smaller one next to it is the original building now Dearborn Music*.
They are still prospering in O.R.T 1947 and they probably will as City Council passed the Local Headquarters Tax which will give a tax credit to all businesses who employ over 1,000 sims and have at least 1 out of city branch with their HQ in Ostrop.

This is the New Center Project in its early stages. This area is also known as the Middle East side which is another immigrant district. This was a huge project so there was factories constructed nearby (as shown) to make materials and housing for the workers (as shown). The sims here are mostly displaced from SWWII but a few are just down on their luck farmers from neighboring towns. Sadly these tenements are scheduled for demolition for more modern art-deco apartments in 1949 (about 4 years from this shot).

*Dearborn Music is an actual music store in Dearborn MI, not far from where I live. It sells new CD/DVDs, used CD/DVDs, old LPs and 45's, and even instruments. It does look quite a bit like the building here (except for the fact the real one is about 4 different colors as it was 4 different stores at one time) so that's where the name came from.