Downtown

<infobox> <title source="name"><default>Downtown</default></title>

<image source="image"><default>File:Placeholder location.png</default></image> <header>Basic Information</header> <image source="map"></image> <label>Type</label> <label>Location</label> <label>Teams</label> <label>Inhabitants</label> <header>First Appearance</header> <label>Worm Debut</label> <label>Ward Debut</label> </infobox> Downtown is the central area of Brockton Bay.

Geography/Description

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 </ref>

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 </ref>

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" />

Residents

Grue's apartment was in one of the modern buildings in the south-east area of downtown.<ref name=":1" />

Empire Eighty-Eight based their operations downtown,<ref name=":1" /> possibly out of the Medhall Corporation building there. Purity lived downtown,<ref name=":2">Interlude 3.5 (Bonus)</ref> as did Kaiser.<ref>Kaiser.  Max Anders, president and chief executive officer of Medhall Corporation, a pharmaceuticals company based in Brockton Bay.  Father of a Theodore Richard Anders and an Aster Klara Anders.  Twice divorced, currently living in a penthouse apartment downtown. - Buzz 7.4</ref>

Coil's underground base was located downtown, near Crater Lake.<ref>Coil's underground base had fallen just beyond the scope of the massive lake in the middle of downtown. - Interlude 8</ref>

Parian would sometimes do promotion for a store downtown.<ref>Parian.  She was local, and she wasn't hero or villain.  A rogue, who only used her powers for business or entertainment.  She could sometimes be seen doing some promotion for a store downtown, giving life to some massive stuffed animal or a store mascot. - Extermination 8.1</ref> She later began protecting an area of downtown between the spot where the college was and Crater Lake.<ref>Sentinel 9.2 </ref>

Points of Interest

• Arcadia High
• PRT ENE Headquarters
• Tattletale's headquarters
• Towers
• Brockton Bay Central Library
• Brockton Bay Central Bank
• Medhall Corporation building<ref name=":2" />
• Palanquin<ref>Interlude 5

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• The Forsberg Gallery
• Crater Lake<ref name=":3">Extermination 8.5

</ref><ref>Blinking lights marked the barriers and trucks around the perimeter of the massive hole Leviathan had made in the upper end of Downtown.  The hole was still largely filled with water.  People were still trying to verify if it would ever empty on its own, or if it would be a permanent part of downtown. - Extermination 8.8 </ref>

• Hillside Mall<ref name=":4">Shadow Stalker paused in her patrol when she arrived at the roof of the Hillside Mall, downtown.  She'd hoped to run into some looters, had had some luck earlier in the week at this spot, but it seemed that police forces were stationed at the entrances, now. - Sentinel 9.6</ref>

History

Background

Empire Eighty-Eight and Coil were in a constant struggle over downtown for months prior to the start of Worm, with neither making much headway.<ref>Interlude 2</ref> Coil controlled more than half of downtown.<ref>Coil?  Can't say as far as his powers go, but he's one of the more powerful players in town.  Considers himself a chessmaster.  You know, like a master strategist, tactician.   Controls more than half of downtown with squads of top notch personnel in the highest end gear. - Hive 5.1</ref>

Story Start

Interlude 2 takes place in an alley downtown.

The Battle at the Bank takes place at Brockton City Central Bank, downtown. The Wards and Glory Girl caused some property damage, and Grue's darkness stopped all traffic downtown for half an hour.<ref>While we had escaped with more than forty thousand dollars, the paper was reporting losses of only twelve.  All in all, the story had been more focused on the property damage, most of which was caused by Glory Girl and the Wards, and the fact that the darkness we'd used to cover our escape had stopped all traffic downtown for an hour. - Shell 4.1</ref>

The Battle at the Gallery takes place at the Forsberg Gallery, one of the most recognizable buildings downtown.<ref>Tangle 6.5 </ref>

Following the defeat of the ABB, there were celebrations downtown on Lord Street.<ref>My suspicions were that most people in the downtown area who were out and about would be near Lord Street, celebrating the end of the curfew. - Tangle 6.7 </ref>

The final parts of the Battle against Leviathan took place downtown.<ref name=":3" />

Post-Leviathan

There was some looting downtown following the Battle against Leviathan. Shadow Stalker patrolled there.<ref name=":4" />

References

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