Seattle—What Was Once the City of Seattle—Is Still the Heart of the Modern Metroplex

DOWNTOWN DOWNTOWN 104 Downtown Seattle—what was once the city of Seattle—is still the heart of the modern metroplex. The Downtown district is responsible Aurora Village for the majority of the area’s economy, home of its central government, 104 and at the center of its culture and activities. While there is much to Richmond see and do in other parts of the metroplex, none encompass the whole Highlands of the Seattle experience as well as the Downtown area. 5

Puget Sound Lake Washington DOWNTOWN AT A GLANCE Bitter Lake Size: 468 square kilometers Population: 545,000 Matthews Beach Northgate Human: 63% North Beach Inverness Elf: 13% Greenwood Dwarf: 2% Loyal Heights Ork: 19% Green Lake Ballard Ravenna Windmere Troll: 2% Laurel Hurst Other: 1% 5 University Interbay Population Density: 1,165 per square kilometer 99 Portage Bay Union Bay Per Capita Income: 130,000¥ Magnolia Bluff Lake Union Corporate-Afﬁliated Population: 89% Montlake Madison Park Hospitals and Clinics: 12 Queen Anne Hill Capitol Hill Voting Precincts: 11 Elven District St. Andrews Way Education: Elliot Bay Madrana Park Less Than 12 Years: 25% DowntownFirst Hill High School Equivalency: 45% Lake Washington College Equivalency: 18% Central International Advanced Degrees and Certiﬁcates: 12% District Alki Mount Baker > Major Corp Facilities: Aztechnology, Brackhaven Investments, Federated- Beacon Hill Boeing, Ingersoll and Berkeley, Mitsuhama Computer Technologies, NeoNET, Columbia West Seattle 5 Renraku Computer Systems, Wuxing, Inc. 99 > Duwamsh Waterway Major Gangs: Bloody Screamers, Disassemblers, First Nations, Halloweeners, Troll Killers Rainier Valley Westwood

Fauntleroy Arbor Heights Van Asselt White Center DISTRICTS Bryn Mawr The following are the major neighborhoods and divisions Downtown.

Riverton ARCOLOGY COMMERCIAL AND HOUSING ENCLAVE (ACHE) Can a building be an entire neighborhood unto itself? It can if it’s the Puget Sound Green River SEA-TAC Tukwila size of the Arcology Commercial and Housing Enclave in Downtown Seattle, a structure nearly a kilometer tall, with more than three hundred floors, home to more than one hundred thousand residents. 509 5 Normandy Park Originally built by the Renraku Computer Systems corporation, the arcology was intended to be a self-sufficient living environment for company employees. Disaster struck in 2059 when the newly Kent completed Arcology was sealed off by a rogue artificial intelligence in Angle Lake the Renraku computer system. Eventually liberated by UCAS military forces, the structure was seized by the government. Now the majority Des Moines Green River of its housing and office areas have been converted into low-income 5 housing for metroplex residents, while the UCAS government main- tains control over the building’s more sensitive areas. Kent-DesKent-Des Moines Moines Road Road

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