Okay.Here I go.This time I'm going to do it in two parts because it's too big.So,this is the Part One.Enjoy it!
In today's episode of Flying Stories,we'll continue our trip through Inner Town(that's the name given to the pack of Old and New Downtown plus Central Point Park).This time we'll give more atention to New Downtown,a place where highrises and skyscrapers rises from small and dense buildings and townhouses.So seat and relax,because we're presenting:Flying Stories! (the opening of the series appears entitled "Flying Stories:Old plans,High results")
We'll start here,at Central Town.
This is really a unique place.After the 5 Months Crisis,ocurred between January to May of 2004,it was decided that a new downtown would be necesary to rebuild the city's economy because,although the crisis wasn't longer,it had destroyed the city's economy and forced the City Hall to make astronomical cuts in the maintenance of several public areas,also leading to the physical deterioration of it.With the new center that was going to be built up,many ideas and plans were used for it's infrastructere,ideas that were somewhat utopian and that would solve many problems in countless urban centers around the world,such as lack of space,traffic generated and even environmental issues.The plans were these:to make New Downtown an extremely dense area,where people can find everything without even needing to leave their homes in certain cases.With apartments above and stores below,many buildings would save space;"force" people to walk to find everything they need,reducing local traffic;and,taking up less space and using technologies to reduce water and power usage and/or buildings with green terraces,and even by simply reducing the amout of vehicles on the streets,would cause less environmental impacts.
As you can see,the district of Central Town really used those plans of being very dense to avoid normal problems of high populated areas,and the icon of such a time is the New City Hall of Maxlópolis City.
It is a 900-meter high skyscraper with 300 floors,containing additionals 70 floors below (please,imagine a building like this) and it was built togheter with New Downtown,in August of 2004.Since Maxlópolis City is the capital of the state of Maxland and the country of OverMaximum,this building contains the City Hall,the seat of the state government and the national capitol,plus some other public administration offices.Underground,30 floors are designated to be parking lots and the other 40 are for maintenance.
Central Town was also chosen to have the city's new transport hub,called Station Square.
Station Square contains the Main Bus Station with its own bus depot,a taxi station,the Central Railway Station,the Central Metro Station and even a mini mall.It was built because the old central hub did not support so many people and stopping points in one place.In addition,it didn't have a train station with a connection to the outside.
Now,talking about the institutions from this place let's take a look at the NBOM (National Bank of OverMaximum).
The NBOM was designed and built to be not only the bank's headquarters,but also to contain the National Treasury and the National Finance and Accounting Office (NOFA).Since the city has a very high monetary gain because of its strong and diverse industry,its large population with high purchasing power,its numerous internal and external investments;apart from other reasons,in October of 2005,a new safe of unreported proportions was placed in the basement of the building.However,when it started to become full,even with the high expenses of the city in all current public areas (the city and the country share the same Treasury),the NOFA was relocated to the building to be easier the job of the distribution of accumulated money.A project called "My Sweat Money" was created to determine that:one third of the National Treasury's money should remain in the city's public coffers for the benefit of the city,another third would be distributed between the other cities and states,and the last third would also stay in the city,but to be distributed equally among the population,thus maintaining the economic and social equality of the city (lucky ones,don't you think?).
Nowadays the bank has a digital service and even its own crypto currency:the MaxBits (a reference to the famous Bitcoins mixed with the name of the national currency,that's MaxBucks),wich can be used for daily purchases or for large digital transactions.In the case of technology,it may not seem like it,but Maxlópolis City it's a real innovator.But we'll talk more about that in other episodes.
Another great company in the city is Max's own company,or better saying,companies;because he has a lot of them.And its headquarters is this one:Explodix Enterprise Corporation Unlimited.
This huge building that take its space on the city's skyline is responsable of others FOUR companies,and all of them are owned by Max Explodix.But,for now,let's talk about only this building.
The enterprise was founded in November of 1999 in oder to make easier and help the rebuilding of the ruins of BuckBrine,the ruined city from where Maxlópolis City was birth.After that,this company was left aside until July of 2004,when Max saw it as an opportunity to recover his beloved city,destroyed by the crisis,and still be able to finally create a real company.Included in the New Downtown project,the Maximum Tower,as it was called,rose from the construction sites to the skies and began to work in the first days of operation.The company negotiated so much externally that it maneged to get enough money for Max not only recover the city's public services lost during the crisis,but also to finish the whole New Downtown and still have a stable economy for a long time.
Having created Explodix Enterprise Corporation Unlimited to help the city's economy and to take care of its other companies was certainly a masterpiece of which Max is proud to have done.And the citzens approve,since everyone put the future of the city in Max's hands when they decided that the city should be governed only by him.And,while he is alive,he promises to take care of the city like a son,wich is something remarkable and that he is fulfilling if we saw everything he has done for it.
Now let's talk about the second company of Max:the Maximum Animations Studios Company.
In the Tower of the Fourth Wall is located a gigantic studio of animation,recording music,TV shows and movies,production of books and comics,among others.The stories that are made here are based on the countless adventures that Max had is having or will be having with his friends and family.The main characters are Max Explodix (the leader of the group;a goldenhearted person),Criar Nilo Ilo or Criar98 (Max's best friend;a child scientist,because he is only 18 years old),Hex Z-Legend (Max's second best friend by the time that he came;a visible alien amoeba that lives in a robot made of eletronic waste) and Far Explodix (Max's sister;a litlle and cute singer).How these stories are so well done and worked as if they were made out of here remains as a secret,but that this studios are the OverMaximum's own Disney,no one has any doubt about that!
The end of Part One.I'm to work on Part Two later.