The Hutchinson Metro Area

[Dac150]

Well, I wanted to make a new city being that I finished my weekly assignments and my classes are not until next Wednesday. Hutchinson got boring being to it was too big, so I've decided to make a smaller city to focus more on detail.

A little history.......

Chamberlin was founded in 1805 and established itself as your run of the go small American town. Chamberlin is located on the Southeast part of new Jersey, right on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. For the next 150 years, Chamberlin kept a low profile, with a population under 10,000. It wasn't until 1960 when the first talks of making Chamberlin a commercial hub were in order. At that time cities like Hutchinson, Staunton, and New York were gaining commercial power.
For the next 19 years, residents and zoning groups opposed to the idea set forth by towns government. By 1979, Citigroup (then known of Citicorp) wanted to house some offices in New Jersey. Once the fish took the bait, the city council fought with zoning groups to allow the construction of highrises in the town (now developing into a city). By 1980 the council won, and a 5 block area that was dubbed "Downtown Chamberlin", was ridded of small shops, homes, churches, and schools, to make way for what was to be a corporate hub.
By 1981 construction began on a 2 building complex named "The Chamberlin Business Center". It consisted of a 65 and a 62 floor building connected by an overpass. It housed commercial space, trading floors, retail, and a restaurant on the bottom floor of 1 CBC. Citigroup leased all of building 2 and got rights to have their logo plastered on the top of the building.
By the end of the decade, nearly 10 large office buildings made up Chamberlin's skyline. The population reached a record high of 200,000 residents.
In 1993 a highway was built to link Chamberlin with I-95 and the New Jersey Turnpike, only leading to a bigger population of residents and businesses. With the real estate slump of the 90's at full force, not one highrise was constructed between the years 1990-1999.
Today the city is going strong with a current population of 450,000 and new highrises being constructed.

I will update frequently being that I have found a good routine in school to focus on work and the amount of free time I spend.

Visuals soon!

[Austin55]

will it have textures or other facede detail?

[Aleks]

Probably the best story for a city in all Cityscape. I love it. Sounds good!

I hope you use at least textures or make some kind of floor plans like in my city.

[Dac150]

Nope, the city will have white buildings, but the city will be more detailed. I feel by detailing the city will prompt me to stay with it longer.

Expect a visual update later today.

[Dac150]

Here is just a quick pic of Chamberlin's Central Business District/Financial District. Later tonight I will get more into detail with the individual buildings.



What do you think?

[treras93]

i like it all but this building especially

[Aleks]

What building?

What I think you should do is make the city smaller with textures. Because you might be using the same amount of memory with a big city and a small textured city.

Get what I'm saying?

[Dac150]

Yes, but I like making man-made detail as oppose to using textures. I feel its more fun. Anyway, here is another pic. This will follow by more information on individual buildings later.



More to come soon.

[Aleks]

Well why don't you do the same thing I do. Make your own floors and everything. I can teach you if you want to learn. There's an easy way to do it.

[Dac150]

I appreciate the offer, but I think I'll stick with this way for now. When Thanksgiving break comes around I'll take up your offer if your still willing.

[Dac150]

This will give you an idea of what makes up the skyline and who is occupying it. I highly suggest you read this to understand the city more!



1.
Name: One Atlantic Plaza
Floors: 70
Built: 1985
Tenants: Franklin Templeton Financial, Ameriprise Financial, Solomon Equities, Law offices of Jacob Deustche, Harper Investments Inc, The Northeastern Development Corporation, GHI Healthcare, TTS Systems, Madison Investments Inc.
-Tallest building in Chamberlin
-Holds retail and a restaurant on the bottom floor
-3 floor atrium lobby

2.
Name: One Chamberlin Business Center
Floors: 65
Built: 1982
Tenants: TRI Financial, TRI Shipping, TRI Investments, Castleton Financial, Solomon Smith Barney.
-The most "popular" building in Chamberlin (voted by residents)
-Houses a Helipad on the roof
-Connected to 2 CBC by an overpass
-Home to the famous 5 star restaurant "Cosmo's"

3.
Name: Two Chamberlin Business Center
Floors: 62
Built: 1982
Tenant: Citigroup
-Holds all the complex's trading and conference space
-Has the Citigroup red umbrella logo ontop

4.
Name: The Maserk Building
Floors: 60
Built: 1989
Tenant: Maserk Shipping Corporation
-Maserk proposed a Maserk shipping port for Chamberlin, but it was thrown out due to local NIMBY groups
-The North American HQ of Maserk
-Holds an underground retail concourse

5.
Name: Centennial Place
Built: 1988
Floors: 55
Tenants: New Jersey State Federal Offices, Chamberlin Department of Transportation, Chamberlin Department of Commerce, Multiple Law offices.
-Deal was made by the developer with the State of NJ to house State offices. Known of the cities "Federal Building".
-Attracted many law firms which make up 40% of the leaseable space
-Bomb threat took place in 1988 when the Governor of NJ came to visit the new building (being that it houses state federal offices). Since then, the lobby is now closed to the public and only accessbile to workers to get to their offices.
-Sub level entrance from the street allows public to enter the underground retail concourse that is linked with the Maserk Building.

6.
Name: The Chamberlin Financial Center
Floors: Building 1: 60
Building 2: 60
Building 3: 30
Building 4: 30
Building 5: 25
Built: 1989
Tenants: Merril Lynch, American Express, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Prudentcial Financial, HSBC Bank, Multiple Investment firms and small financial companies.
-Merril Lynch leased out all of building 1
-Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley leased 50% each of building 2
-HSBC Bank, American Express, and a dozen Investment firms make up Building 3
-Prudential Financial leased out 90% of Building 4, and a small financial company leased out 10%
-Building 5 is a J.W. Marriot Hotel (which is an atrium style hotel)
-Two overpasses connect the main center to buildings 4 & 5 across Atlantic Avenue (one of them has a ceiling height of 2 floors)
-Has trading floors in all the buildings (except 5)
-Has a waterfront plaza open to the public that lines the perimeter of buildings 1-3. They are lined with retail.
-The complex is class A (as well as every office building in the city) and was named by Fortune Magazine, the most High-end office building(s) in the North-east when it opened
-Its known for its extravagent marble, limestone, and granite lobbies.
-Only "Twin" concept buildings in the city
-Compared to 3 WFC and Canary Wharf

7.
Name: The Signature Residences
Floors: 40
Built: 2002
-First residential highrise in Chamberlin
-Base houses 4 restaurants, high-end retail, and public plaza
-Most expensive penthouse sold for 20 million in 2003. It was bought by the CEO of TRI Shipping to serve as his main residence. He also has a 18,000 sqft home in Princeton NJ.

8.
Name: The Westin Hotel
Floors: 35
Built: 2005
-4 Star rating
-Has a large conference center
-Has an underground parking garage

9.
Name: 1 Ocean Place
Floors:40
Built: 2007
-Regional HQ of Unilever
-Large podium consists of Trading floors, Conference Space, and a 2 floor lobby which features a 2 story fountain
-LEED certified green building (1st in the city)

Enjoy, and please leave a comment!

[Aleks]

So many facts! So little brain cells to use!

I love 1 Ocean Plaza, it's the best tower I.M.O. I love how you also make complexes' but you don't just make all the towers too similar.

Oh, O.M.G. the tallest tower has 70 floors!! I expect it to be under 1,000 floors because in 1985 the floor pitch was probably lower than 12 feet. Heck I think 12 feet was a lot back then, but since the building has a pyramid it might get a boost in height.

[Dac150]

I wanted to make this a realistic city. Nothing too crazy in building height, but tall and large enough to make a statement.

[Mocholate]

good work
my fav is The Maserk Building

[Aleks]

woops I wrote 1,000 floors instead of 1,000 feet.
Is there a specific height to the tower?

[Dac150]

I estimate it at 1,000ft

[Aleks]

You don't measure the heights?

The Signature Residences are nice. I think it need details. Also I think you should paint the grass areas not texture them because it looks like seaweed.

[foxmtbr]

I love the financial center, and everything looks really great! I definitely think you are really onto something with this city.

[Austin55]

Im not ripping you!! Im just wanted to say that finding what you based your towers of of is so much fun

but wow,I cant see this being a full scale skyline,which is the point.but,1000 feet! they berly look above 700 feet.

Please,I thing you should use colors on your towers.Im weird,but I think Texturing the towers is the most fun,and you can easily turn the textueres of. Have you eve tried textures lately? thats how you learn new things,trying new things.just pplease,try!!if not,use colors atleast,otherwise things like that sighn stand out.

I Love I love it I love it!!!!

[Dac150]

Towers that I based of of real life ones:
1. Maserk Building: Oil & Gas Company Building in Los Angeles
2. Chamberlin Financial Center: Canary Wharf in London, WFC in New York

and thats about it to my knowledge.


Thank you for the comments Alek, Mo, Austin, & Fox