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Carthage - 25 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 Lenox. 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. Lenox, which featured primarily single-family housing with some commercial transit-oriented development prior to 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.

The city has six suburbs, which are Fremont, Kensington, Larchmont, Newton, Prescott, and Wendover, with room for future development. 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. Larchmont was designed as a suburb of Lenox. 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, bypasses the region to the east. Plans are being discussed to expand the existing suburbs and create four new towns: Franconia, Glendale, Portsmouth, and Brockton, with a fifth town named Cottage Grove serving as an additional industrial park for Larchmont residents.

The city's population (comprising the districts of Lenox, Midtown, Bowery, and Waterfront) is around 180,000, 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 large international airport located northwest of the city in an area bordered by the lake on the east and by Wendover on the south. The airport opened with a main terminal with 38 mainline jet gates and eight regional plane gates arranged in an X-shape, with the main entrance located in the center of the building. A satellite terminal with eighteen gates for international flights opened during the second phase of construction, and is linked to the main terminal by a four-station underground automated people mover known as the Airport Transit System. All 56 mainline gates in the airport's two terminals have jetways. The third and final phase of the airport involved constructing a cargo facility with ten hardstand gates for freight aircraft, as well as four airport hotels, two of which are part of the midscale Oasis Hotel complex, and two of which are luxury hotels. All hotels on the airport's property feature swimming pools.

The city's population is currently stabilizing at around 230,000 due to the population's high average age, with senior citizens constituting one-third of the population. Most of the buildings in the downtown core cannot be demolished due to them being of historical significance, so the city's housing authority focuses on renovating any buildings that become abandoned due to uncollected corpses rather than demolishing them.

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. Please note that a mod enabling the use of 25 or 81 tiles is also required for this save!