The Terraces

The Terraces were a shopping mall on the fiftieth floor of DuQuesne Tower.
With almost two hundred thousand square meters of floor space, the Terraces were once the crown jewels of the tower. Located at the transfer point of two of the residential floors' dedicated lift shafts, it served almost eight hundred thousand people, a sufficient volume of customers to make it a highly profitable location in the People's Republic of Haven.
Eventually however corruption brought an end to its profitability with the floor police charging higher and higher prices for "protection" and independent shop owners being forced out. One by one, the shops closed or merged into larger stores and taxes on merchandise ordered from outside the tower meant only the tower's wealthier residents could avoid The Terraces or one of the other smaller, less conveniently located malls
The Terraces deteriorated slowly, but with increasing momentum into someplace shoppers avoided after hours and where women and girls never ventured alone. Gangs routinely robbed and beat customers. (OSH)
Category:Buildings