Downtown

## Downtown District

The Downtown district is the central and original location of the city of Senioritia. It features the highest amount of skyscrapers out of any district, features many redstone farms, stores, and is the location of many of the most cutting edge technologies in the city. It is also the location of where the original village once sat, and the Old Canal. Being the center of the city, the Downtown district has been around for every Era, and the history of Downtown makes up a large representation of the history of the general city. It is bordered by the Spawn river to the south, BBC/Lakeside to the north, the Industrial Park to the east, and the Valley to the west.

## District History

First Era (2020)

The District was first settled by angrymeats and pasticiotto, created when they ventured upon the original village that once sat along the Spawn River. They settled into the village, and slowly destroyed the original village buildings and constructed public works buildings. Ilikepie9074 joined the server, and constructed the first playermade house in the server, out of acacia. LethalPineapple soon joined, constructing the blackstone castle. The city canal was then dug to move villagers around the city in boats. Most, if not all construction was limited to personal housing, and large, open, public buildings designed to house villagers to trade with, and at this time, villagers were allowed to scatter around the village freely, and the large villager houses were just buildings with beds and workstations in them. The Library building on Canal street is the last of these public, open, villager buildings that still remain in the city, now used as a Nether portal building.

Early City Era (Early 2021)

During the Early City Era, capitalism began to take root in the city. The large public villager buildings started to show its issues, as 4 of them lined Canal Street, and their openness left villagers running around on the streets and blocking them. Having the villagers freed, also spawned in large amounts of iron golems, which clogged streets, and the city canal was deepened to kill the golems. These issues, along with the fact that the villagers were running amuck freely, making it hard to find villagers with good trades, led to the decline of these buildings. The last public villager building attempt was with pxpy and angrymeats, building a secured librarian building at 11 B Street, but lightning and other factors slowly killed off the villagers. The buildings were torn down for more capitalist purposes, like private housing, and stores. The first redstone farm tower was constructed, The Grofit Tower at 10 Canal Rd., and was a sugarcane farm, which featured 7 sugarcane farms, and produced so much sugarcane it was opened to the public. The largest public building at the time was also constructed in this time, the Old Town Hall, which used clay from the Spawn river and it was used as a block museum as well as storage for the ender dragon egg.

This Era saw the founding of MegaCorp, a corporation founded at the time dedicated to spreading capitalism around the city, as well as exploiting and extorting players for profit. When some of the players began to suggest a communist style governance system in the city, Megacorp only became more exploitative in order to push these players out of their ideology.

The Communist Revolution happened around this time, and the Communists settled across the river from Downtown, and during this time, the river was extremely militarized, with a bamboo wall along the river to prevent crossing into the city by Communists. Downtown was a popular area for Communist attacks, as they would place chests full of free food in the Downtown plaza. Eventually, the Communist Revolution was crushed when Chad Thunderpeen was slain at 11 B Street in Downtown. Their body armor was placed on display inside the MegaCorp tower along the Downtown plaza.

Industrial Era (Mid 2021)

In the Industrial Era, redstone farms spiked in popularity. Bread farms, carrot farms, and other sugarcane farms were constructed, quickly outclassing the Grofit Tower. Major industrializers of the area were Rriv and angrymeats, both building large scale farms, and in turn also constructed skyscraper towers to fit the redstone machinery into the cramped area of downtown. Due to the ultracapitalism, it became popular for players to decorate the 1st floor of their sksyscrapers with valuable resources like diamonds, gold, and netherite. During this time, angry meats was able to secure a bread monopoly, giving dirt cheap bread to all and essentially feeding the entire city. Rriv established a black dye monopoly, constructing a squid farm and creating a dye store and sold important construction materials like sand and gravel that further spiked the new developments. JackhasFriendsss replaced the entire downtown area, changing the cobblestone roads to smooth stone slab. Buildings from the Early Eras were torn down, like pasticiotto’s house being moved in place of Ivanovo’s bookstore, the Goodwill being torn down by JackhasFriendsss, and an old building being torn down in place of enderboo’s store. Players that operated shops in downtown during this Era included Rriv, enderboo, pxpy, angrymeats, and Ivanovo. During this era, the soul sand highway was installed into downtown, though with downtown being so dense, downtown did not see as much highway construction as other parts of the city. The old canal had to be closed off due to the construction of the highway over it. During this time downtown became a very laggy area due to all the red stone.

During this time, Rriv's newly founded Aquacorp began to rise in power, beginning to rival the existing top corporation, Megacorp. This sparked a large rivalry which led to increased farm production in order to gain more wealth and power, as well as both corporations increasing their land acquisition and building more impressive redstone farms, as well as lowering their prices on goods sold by both corporations. During this Era, guns were recently added to the game and were META, and this rivalry sparked the first large gunfights over property disputes that were amplified by the corporate rivalries. The rivalry never came to a formal conclusion, but Aquacorp constructed a significantly larger tower than Megacorp, and cornered the market with lower prices and more goods to sell over Megacorp, while Megacorp won most of the gunfight skirmishes in the battles. Aquacorp mainly represented a growing resentment of Megacorp's exploitative buisness practices, and Aquacorp recruited those who shared similar sentiment. Megacorp eventually backed off, and stopped its generally exploitative practices, becoming a corporation dedicated to city maintanence and improvement, and the rivalry dissapated.

At this Era, Downtown was initially split into Downtown, the Dragon Plaza area and Midtown, the Old Town Hall area, but was eventually combined into a single super-district.

First Drought Era (Late 2021)

During the First Drought Era, not much happened. Many of the old buildings were repossessed, with enderboo’s materials store being repurposed to a coal store by LethalPineapple, and then having the building moved to clear up the area. Due to the server rebooting, all signshops reset and Rriv’s critical dye store closed. The highways were also reorganized during this time, making the Red highway go through downtown and connecting downtown to the Green highway loop. The empty lot where the old Goodwill once stood was taken up by Captain\_Argo, who constructed his house there and also constructed a basketball court park for the downtown area.

First Revival Era (Early 2022)

downtown saw lots of change in the area, including the moving of enderboo’s shop to open up the inner city area and make navigation more clear. The Dragon Plaza in downtown saw it’s sandstone pavement replaced with grass as part of a tree planting initiative. Overall, downtown has not seen much change during the revival, probably due to very many existing towers, cramped and confusing streets, and lack of land availability. MegaCorp under angrymeats opened a superstore which opened the second iron store in the city which was cheaper and more convenient than the pre existing one, as well as trying to fill the lost niche of the Aquacorp super stores.

## Architecture

First Era

The architecture of this time consisted solely of boxy, cheap buildings only slightly superior to the original village buildings. These buildings were uniquely all-purpose, housing farms, storage, and workspaces. No buildings of this era survive to this day.

Early City Era

The architecture of this time consisted of public, open, villager buildings, with the interiors consisting of simply beds and workstations and nothing else, allowing villagers to roam freely. These buildings often featured high roofs and large spaces, as allowing villagers to roam freely tended to spawn large amounts of iron golems. The reason why these buildings were constructed was to increase the population of villagers as fast as possible, as letting them all run around increased chances and ease of breeding. These buildings caused mass clogging in the city, as villagers would flush out into the roads and iron golems would get stuck in the cramped city area, and because of this eventually were locked off, and eventually, as better villager housing was made that locked them into cells to keep track of trades, and villager populations increased to nuiscance levels, these buildings were eventually phased out of popularity. The only surviving example of this kind of building is the library building which is now used as a nether portal building.

Industrial Era

The architecture of this era consisted of modern, repeating patterned towers that took up the entire lot space, usually in boxes with few curves in order to maximize space. During this era, many people wanted to live and operate in the city, with large redstone farm plans, but the only availible relevant lots were cramped and small, meaning builders had to maximize space in their builds, making most of the industrial era towers strictly square and taking up all the lot space, leading to cramped and confusing roads. These towers also had a culture of showing off, and in most people's base floors of their skyscrapers, gold, diamonds, netherite, and more valuables are embedded into the floor to show off wealth. Most of these buildings still survive today.

Drought Era

The Drought Era did not see much new development, but did consisten of a large amount of building repossessions, and many buildings while their exteriors were not changed, were gutted on the inside and fitted with new purposes.

Revival Era

Most of the architecture of the area during this time was focused on adding greenery to the city which was lost during the Industrial Era, and saw the opening up of public spaces, and insertion of grass.

## District Managers

angrymeats (The First Era-Early City Era)

MegaCorp (Early City Era-Present)

## Notable Residents

Notable people who have lived/live in this district include:

angrymeats (First Era-Present)

LethalPineapple (First Era-Present)

pasticiotto (First Era-Industrial Era)

JackhasFriendss (Industrial Era-Present)

Rriv (Industrial Era-Present)