Highpoint

## Overview

Highpoint is a thriving, hip area on the south side of the Bay. Due to the decline of many neighboring areas, rents in Highpoint are much cheaper than an equally nice area in the north, which has been attracting starving artists to the area for over fifty years. Most people who move to Highpoint wind up staying in the area, as do their families, which makes many of the communities tightly knit. The smaller streets in some areas feel cozy instead of cramped. The greenery in Highpoint is in a very urban flavor -- few trees line the streets and large parks are nonexistent. Instead, many homes, especially in Luxe, have rooftop and window gardens. Occasionally, Highpoint’s residents have laid claim to empty lots and transformed them into community gardens.

## History

Highpoint is a thriving, hip area on the south side of the Bay. Due to the decline of many neighboring areas, rents in Highpoint are much cheaper than an equally nice area in the north, which has been attracting starving artists to the area for over fifty years. Most people who move to Highpoint wind up staying in the area, as do their families, which makes many of the communities tightly knit. The smaller streets in some areas feel cozy instead of cramped. The greenery in Highpoint is in a very urban flavor -- few trees line the streets and large parks are nonexistent. Instead, many homes, especially in Luxe, have rooftop and window gardens. Occasionally, Highpoint’s residents have laid claim to empty lots and transformed them into community gardens.

Highpoint began as a collection of resort homes for the wealthy citizens in the southern Titan City area. The area remained exclusive and non-commercialized throughout the nineteenth century. Most homes were clustered around the modern Diamond Beach area and equidistant from both Clarkstown and Ironport. It wasn’t until the Fire of 1908 that Highpoint started becoming the area it is today.

The Highpoint area suffered greatly in the Fire of 1908. Nearly everything from the district’s past was lost to the flames. Most residents decided not to rebuild in Highpoint, preferring to move their secondary homes further away from the increasingly bustling Titan City. Developers, seeing an opportunity, swept in and bought as many parcels of land as they could. Low-rise apartments buildings, row houses and brownstones soon began to cover the area.

The Savoy and Luxe neighborhoods quickly attracted residents on the cutting edge of 1920s culture. Dance halls and jazz clubs lined the streets. Soon, Highpoint was known as a cultural mecca and more avant-garde citizens began to move into the area. In the 1950s, it was the home of beatniks and so on.

Current Highpoint is a thriving community. However that does not always keep the troubles of Southern Titan City at bay. Gangs and other unsavory sorts are known to lurk about Highpoint, causing trouble. There are also rumors that some pretty valuable artifacts remain buried from the Fire of 1908.

## Neighborhoods

* **Ashcan**: The most industrial of all the Highpoint neighborhoods. Some of the buildings are old industrial structures that have been repurposed as apartment buildings and art studios. It is not uncommon for public displays of strange post-modern artistic sculptures to randomly appear.

* **Bauhaus**: Home to numerous German, Polist and Jewish immigrants who fled Europe prior to the world wars, Bauhaus is home to the district’s tallest apartments today.

* **Diamond Beach**: Diamond Beach was once a resort for the richest of the rich, the area wasn’t rebuilt the same after Hurricane Atlas, and is now merely a nice residential area for a predominantly Latino population.

* **Lowbrow**: A semi-commercial, and home to a combination of construction and lumber yards as well as apartment buildings. Large sculpture studios and foundries can be found here, and the residential buildings tend to be of a more modern, drab gray and metal construction.

* **Luxe**: Home of Highpoint’s bohemenain, nouveau riche. The buildings are all in perfect condition with windowsill and rooftop gardens. Town- and Row-houses are common here, and it is home to many small restaurants, boutiques, and cafes.

* **Savoy**: A neighborhood that never sleeps. There are many bars, nightclubs, pop-up galleries, and diners. Many of the buildings date back to the 1910s, and eight-story walk-ups are common.

* **Turell Hill**: Named after the former keepers of the lighthouse that sits at the top. Turell Hill is an idyllic yet isolated little community that overlooks the urban sprawl that has occurred throughout the rest of Highpoint. The homes here tend to resemble small cottages, and is a popular place for retired artists to live.