Harwood Securitract

* **Population:** 2813
* **Administration:** The Harwood Tract Association administrates the Harwood Association, with all day-to-day, maintenance and utility services performed by Goldmark-Craig-Schlossman, by charter agreement.
* **Territoriality:** The Harwood Securitract is part of the extraterritoriality of GCS's parent company, the Single-A Red River Valley Investment, Holdings and Development Group.
* **Security:** Security services are contracted to the TractSec Team of Borderlands Security Inc
* **Transportation:** Zone Area Transit maintains a Harwood Station, running maintaining shuttles to Hector AFB and Fargo and Tier 4 HeliShuttle services directly to the other parts of the RRDMZ

Once upon a time there was a town called Harwood just about 11km north of Hector Airport. A quiet place, a bedroom community founded by the railroad. Don't bother looking for it now, because there's nothing left of it.

Like so much, everything here changed during the Awakening. By the early One-and-Twenty Harwood had already become a fairly high-value bedroom community for Fargo, when the Ghost Dance split the continent and the "anglos" (ie, all non-natives), were driven out of the newly-formed Očéti Šakówiŋ, flooding Fargo with refugees from the former US states of Montana, Wyoming, North and South Dakota, swelling to the population to several times its previous size, causing a housing crisis that would last well into the 2040's.

With the sudden influx of population, even the quickly booming construction industry and the rapidly growing developments that would grow to become the Block struggled to find places to put all these people. And with this overcrowding came crime and disorder and the upper classes wanted to find places to be that didn't have, well, so many refugees and poor people. And the answer to that was the Securitract. Existing in a space between an apartment complex, condominiums and an Arcology, developed with mid-sized cities like Fargo in mind, providing secure, sealed housing for the well-off, with all the amenities they require.

Harwood was the proof of concept. In the late 2030's, the current heads of GCS, Daniel and Sarah Martin-Schlossman, bought up all the land in the township of Harwood, leveled the buildings and put up the 13-floor Securitract in its place, completed and open for habitation in spring of 2040. The former residents of Harwood were given first choice of condo contracts in the new Tract association. The Harwood Securitract was perfect for the needs of that market in that moment and it filled up by late 2042. The success of the Harwood Securitract led GCS to build nine more of these behemoth housing projects for the upwardly mobile in the Fargo-Moorhead.

Harwood remains a bedroom community, largely catering to Group-member employees and the aging relations of the well-off, giving Fargo's first Securitract a bit of a reputation as a graying, giant retirement home, a reputation that while not unearned, isn't anywhere near the full truth of the several thousand well-off corp employees who inhabit it.

In what would turn out to be a lead-up to the events of the Solstice Blackout on the evening of 12/19/75 a group of terrorists made a surgical strike that left one resident dead and burned the West section mid-block Tennis Court. Credit for the attack was later taken by the ever-elusive Nelson Klein.

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