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Carthage - 9 Tile Version (Financial Districts, Expanded Population)

Carthage is a city located in mountainous region that is home to a large peninsula surrounded by two rivers and a large lake, making it suitable for a financial district. The region has large quantities of ore and fertile land reserves, making it produce the resources it needs to make a financial center possible. While it strives to be a great region, it is heavily prone to thunderstorms but rarely experiences earthquakes and tornadoes.

The city has a total of four districts: Waterfront, Bowery, Midtown, and Uptown. The main financial district, the only one to have highrise buildings, is located in the Waterfront district, while the Midtown district is home to the main campus of Carthage University and is sub-divided into three neighborhoods serving the western, central, and eastern portions, all of which have mid-rise buildings. Uptown, which featured primarily single-family housing with some commercial transit-oriented development before its urbanization, is the northernmost district in the city, and it is separated from Midtown by an industrial area and parkland. The Bowery district is the district that lies between the Midtown and Waterfront districts, and features midrise buildings just like Midtown and Uptown.

The city has six suburbs, which are Fremont, Kensington, Larchmont, Newton, Prescott, and Wendover. Ridgecrest and Wendover were initially designed as company towns for forestry industry, with Fremont being designed as a company town for the ore industry. These three towns later grew into suburbs of Carthage, and are separated from the city by the two rivers in the map. Prescott was designed as a planned city suburb of Carthage with a circular city grid (unlike all districts in Carthage south of the industrial zone which had a rectangular 400 by 1200 grid or the district of Lenox which had a modified version of the Oglethorpe plan). Newton is a mid-rise suburb of Carthage located just east of the main city and west of Interstate 47, which is the main expressway in the region. Interstate 47 boasts two auxiliary routes (Interstates 247 and 647), which connect the expressway to Interstate 33 in the western areas of the region, forming a bypass route around the city. A third auxiliary route, Interstate 847, is planned to bypass the region to the east.

The city's population (comprising the districts of Lenox, Midtown, Bowery, and Uptown) is around 185,000, with the suburbs boosting the region's population to 230,000. The region is served by a public transit system comprising five metro lines (three heavy rail lines, which are line A (blue), line B (orange), and line C (green), one monorail line, which is line D (yellow), and one circular fully underground automated light metro line, which is line E (silver)), two light rail/trolley lines (lines T1 and T2, which are colored red and purple), one commuter rail service (which is line S1 (colored teal)), and sixteen bus lines. The region has six rail stations; two of these stations, Carthage Union Station and Ridgecrest Transfer Center, are key transfer points between the commuter rail service and intercity trains.

Carthage has a regional airport located northwest of the city in an area bordered by the lake on the east and by Wendover on the south. The regional airport has three gates, and is designed to only be served by regional jet and turboprop aircraft with 50 to 76 seats due to its short runway. Plans are in place to expand the airport with a signature terminal that can accommodate both regional aircraft and mainline jets, with a second phase adding a satellite terminal for widebody aircraft that will be used for international flights.

All items and most mods in the Carthage City Development Collection (including Realistic Population 2 but excluding Demand Master and Advanced Building Level Control) are required for this scenario in addition to the DLC listed.