Editing Downtown (section)

== Geography/Description ==
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Downtown was one of the nicer areas of Brockton Bay. The streets and sidewalks were wide, and there were skyscrapers in every other lot.<ref name=":0">[[Insinuation 2.5]]
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The south-east part of downtown was housing. It was relatively nice, although there were some [[E88]] gang tags and broken windows here and there. It was a clashing mix of old and new buildings.<ref name=":1">[[Tangle 6.2]]</ref> 

Lord Street was the main road that ran through the city and downtown, tracing the line of the bay.<ref>Laserdream changed course, to follow Lord street, the main road that ran through the city and downtown, tracing the line of the bay. - [[Extermination 8.5]]
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The downtown bordered onto the coast, near the south ferry station.<ref name=":5">[[Plague 12.2]]
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It was a half-hour walk from [[Winslow High]],<ref name=":0" /> but it was impossible to catch a bus there and back within the span of an hour.<ref>You couldn't really catch a bus downtown and back during the lunch break – I'd tried, when I was avoiding the trio – but I doubted my dad would research that. - [[Agitation 3.4]]</ref> It was about an hour away from [[Taylor Hebert]]'s house if you took the fastest bus route.<ref name=":1" />

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Downtown was one of the hardest-hit areas, with [[Crater Lake]] and [[the Scar]] totally destroyed. Reconstruction was slower than in the north, partly because of the lack of roads, making it an undesirable part of the city.<ref name=":6">Things got flipped around.  The north end is <em>nicer</em>, now.  They're rebuilding, and it's all coming together.  Downtown is the place that got hit hard.  You've got three big areas you can't go, with the crater, the quarantine and the place I heard people calling the scar, where they did some bombing run with Bakuda's stuff.  Construction's slower towards the south, because there's so much traffic and not a lot of roads. - [[Interlude 19.z]]</ref>

Downtown was divided between several gangs and passed through a number of different "owners" at different times. At the time of the [[Echidna]] incident, the Eastern end of Downtown was a shanty town controlled by [[Regent]].<ref name=":7"> - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/16/interlude-19-y/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 19.y]]
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<nowiki> </nowiki>With the creation of the portal at the end of the Echidna incident, a quarantine was put into effect, making that area of Downtown inaccessible to civilians.<ref>We entered Brockton Bay's airspace, and I was informed that there's a major quarantine in effect here, relating to the portal downtown, and that the airspace is being strictly controlled. - [[Chrysalis 20.5]]</ref><ref name=":6" /> As people began to pick up on the nature of the portal and its value, the land around it became increasingly valuable. This land was all owned by the [[Undersiders]] via various names.<ref>Tattletale had acquired everything Coil had owned, and it had been easy enough to assume his false identities and take over the dummy corporations.  Now that the city was starting to pick up and people were talking about the potential the portal in the downtown area had, the land was skyrocketing in value. - [[Chrysalis 20.2]]</ref><ref>[[Cell 22.3]]
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