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Spokane is a mini sprawl in central Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands. It is the second largest city in the Council and the largest in the central regions of the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands.
The city and its history is defined by both the Spokane River, which flows directly through the city, cascading over a series of waterfalls in the heart of downtown as well as by the Great Ghost Dance August 17th, 2017, at 10:32 AM PST. For thousands of years before the arrival of European fur-traders and explorers in the area in the early 1800s, the river had been a gathering place and an abundant source of salmon for the Spokane and other tribal peoples. As the city developed and homesteaders settled the area, the Spokane River became polluted, covered by bridges and railroad yards. In 2018, the river and much of downtown was reclaimed by the Kootenai-Salish tribe with the first environmentally and tribally themed World's Fair.
Shaped by its geography, Spokane's urban area is highly varied, due in large part to its location in a valley at the junction of the semi-arid scablands of the Columbia Plateau to the west, the rolling and fertile farmland of the Palouse to the south, and the SoaringEagle and Rocky Mountains to the north and east.
Spokane is the economic hub of an area that serves roughly 1.5 million people. The largest city between the sprawls of the Seattle and Minneapolis/St. Paul metroplexes, its immediate metropolitan area, which includes neighboring Coeur d’Alene, is home to roughly 680,000 people. The city itself is home to just over 200,000. Spokane has a fairly sizeable non-native racial population of over half the population.
TRAVELLING TO SPOKANE
By Plane
Spokane International Airport is located 12.8 kilometers west of downtown off of the highway 90 from Exit #277B (along Council Hwy 2) towards Airway Heights. The airport retains a Salish-Shidhe Customs and Border Protection office for all general aviation flights. Seattle/Tacoma International Airport in the UCAS offers flights to most major international destinations and is only a short 30-minute HTSC flight from Spokane. As a result, the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council is easily accessible worldwide with just one plane change. Most major destinations served by Spokane International are Portland (TT), Seattle (UCAS), Boise, Anchorage (ATH), Minneapolis/St Paul (UCAS), Salt Lake City (UTE), Los Angeles (CFS), Atlanta (CAS), Denver (FRFZ), Las Vegas (UTE), Oakland (CFS), Phoenix (PCC), Chicago-Midway (UCAS), and Chicago-O'Hare (UCAS).
To travel from the airport to downtown, take a taxi from the airport. It will cost around 25¥ + 15% tip.
The Spokane Transit Authority bus, 1.50¥ one way (or 3.50¥ for day pass if requiring a transfer of buses) and takes 25 minutes to travel from the airport to downtown (at the 'Plaza' @ W Moon & Mountain St). The stops are outside the Salish Rangers office & conference center at Concourse C and the arrivals concourse past Concourse A at the opposite end of the main terminal building. Buses also take passengers to Coeur d'Alene, Kettle Falls, Pullman/Colfax, Moscow, and Skyfields AFB.
By Train
Spokane is located on Amtrak Inc’s Big Sky route, which operates between Seattle and Chicago. It is also located at the point where westbound trains are split in half, one half going to Seattle through the Cascades and the other half to Vancouver along the Columbia River Gorge, and where eastbound trains from those cities are joined together to continue eastward. The Big Sky connects with Amtrak Inc’s stops Seattle and San Francisco and additional stops in Chicago. The Amtrak Inc intermodal station, which is shared with Greyhound and Whippet buses, is located downtown, close to major hotels and attractions at 221 W 1st Ave.
By Bus
The bus station for long distance buses is at the same location as the train station (in an intermodal station) at 221 W 1st Ave. Some of the bus companies also have additional stop at the airport and/or in different parts of town:
Greyhound, Intermodal Station, 221 W 1st Avenue, LTG# 7509 (24-5251). Travels primarily on Route 90 (Seattle, Ellensburg, Moses Lake, Spokane, Coeur d'Alene, Kellog, St Regis & Missoula)
Whippet Bus Systems, Intermodal Station, 221 W 1st Ave, LTG# 7509 (39-5395). Operates the Council’s “Travel Salish-Shidhe Gold Line” bus between Spokane, Colville & Kettle Falls along Council Route 395. Stops at the airport, STA Plaza at 701 W Riverside, the Intermodal Station & Haystack Rd P&R in N. Spokane.
Northwestern Trailways, Intermodal Station, 221 W 1st Ave, LTG# 7509 (38-4029). Goes west to Seattle’s Downtown District through Ritzville, Ephrata, Wenatchee, Leavenworth, Lake Stevens & Seattle’s Everett District along Route 90 & Council Route 2. They also go down to Pullman, Moscow, Lewiston, Cottonbird & Boise; east to Coeur d'Alene; and north to Sandpoint.
Wheatland Express, 4101 SR 270, Pullman, LTG# 7509 (34-2200). Goes from the airport down to Colfax, Pullman and Moscow. No stop at the downtown intermodal station.
Get Around
Public Transit
The Spokane Transit Authority, the city’s public transportation provider, serves the University District with seven fixed scheduled bus lines.
Spokane Transit (STA) offers reliable, easy-to-use local electric bus service from Chankoowashtay to Sky Earth Lake and Deer Park to the southern boundary of the City of Spokane. Most routes run through downtown Spokane and the STA Plaza. Bus route maps can be found on the STA LTG, on Spokane Transit buses, and at the STA Plaza. Most drivers are very friendly and helpful, so ask any questions you may have. STA operates using two-hour and all-day passes.
By Car
Car rentals are available near Spokane International Airport. All of the major companies are located there. Returning cars at the airport can be a little confusing. The main entrance to the rental return is an entire kilometer before the airport terminal (left at Flint Rd.) You can also drop off passengers and turn right at Flint Rd. just past the terminal. Note: there are no directional signs for rental cars between these two places.
Gridguide™ works well in most areas. Route 90 is an excellent way to cross town East-West. Spokane is accessed from exits #276 (“Spirit Blvd/S Grove Rd”) through #285 (“Moon Ave”) along Route 90. To get downtown from Route 90 eastbound, exit off at 280 and follow signs to Walnut St and go north on Walnut or continue along parallel road (4th Ave) to Fortune. If coming off the westbound lanes exit at #280A and follow signs to Fortune St and go north on Fortune into downtown. There is also a north-south freeway. Allow more time if you have to go very far in this direction, as the express route frequently experiences traffic jams.
Check with Salish-Shidhe Council Department of Transportation (SSCDOT) for current driving conditions.
Locally the road running east & west as Moon Ave (through downtown & all the way through Spokane Valley) & W Riverside (west of downtown, west of Walnut St) divides the addresses & streets from “North” & “South” while Pheasant St (Council Hwy 2 and 395 going north from Route 90) (going north & south) divides the addresses & streets from “West” & “East”.
By Bike
Spokane has a well-developed bicycling infrastructure with protected bike lanes, traffic-separated bike trails and paths, and bike parking areas in the Downtown District and in the major commercial districts. As a result, biking is a convenient and desirable way to commute. Within the six-month period from April to October when the weather is most reliably bicyclist-friendly, it is not uncommon to see throngs of bicycle commuters traveling downtown or to the various districts, like South Tokala and Sage. Many corporations and employers now offer showers and changing facilities to their corporate citizens and employees to encourage cycling. A decent map of area bike lanes and trails can be found at the municipal LTG.
All Spokane Transit buses feature bike racks with space for two bikes, adding to possible destinations.
The Council Trail runs along the Spokane River from downtown Coeur d'Alene on through the Spokane Valley and downtown Spokane ending in Riverside Council Park. The nationally recognized trail is a favorite among bicyclists, shamans, runners, and skaters. Be on the lookout for the particularly dramatic section near Kilometer 23. Here shamanic trail users exit the up-and-coming Kindling Yards neighborhood to downtown (when traveling eastbound) and cross under the century-old Buffalo Street Bridge, exposing world-class views of the Awakened Spokane Falls. Be sure to take enough time to enjoy this true gem that makes Spokane one of the most beautiful downtown urban areas in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands. And don't forget a camera.
Sights
Riverfront Park, centrally located in the heart of downtown on both banks of the Spokane River, was the host of the 1974 World's Fair. Many of the pavilions still exist, including the architecturally significant Council Pavilion. Akisqnuk Island, the Ksanka Fountain, the Spokane Falls SkyRide, and the FirstVoices Carousel deserve particular mentions, although the site is great even just for a relaxing weekday picnic. The park itself is beautifully maintained if a bit dated.
Manitoo Park, located in the Sundown Hill area (Security Rating: AAA) between 17th Ave and 25th Ave, west of Tatonga Blvd and east of White Owl Street. Its steep hills make it a popular wintertime sledding spot. Manitoo is a year-round home to a friendly flock of geese and ducks. Manitoo Park, thanks in part to its size, is home to numerous attractions. Traditional park amenities like playgrounds and grass fields mix with swaths of unmanicured native plants and beautifully maintained gardens such as the Amerind inspired Seeing Garden or the Japanese garden which was a gift from Spokane's sister city, Nishinomiya, Japan.
Buffalo Street Bridge. This bridge was built in 1911 and is the largest arch bridge in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands. Take an inspiring walk across the falls of the Spokane River while admiring the white buffalo head sculptures adorning the covered observation decks across the span. The Buffalo Street Bridge is located in the heart of Downtown immediately west of Riverfront Park.
Riverside Council Park Bowl and Pitcher is the site of a unique set of basalt rock formations in the middle of the fast-flowing Spokane River. Overlook and suspension bridge on east side is a great way to experience Spokane's motto: Near Nature, Near Perfect.
Spokane Council Courthouse is located at 1116 West Leaping Water just north of downtown. This interesting courthouse was completed in 1895, formerly in 16th century French Native style, but remade with Salish architecture.
Chief Tyee Arboretum Located at 3404 West Woodlands Blvd. A 65 acre arboretum stretching up Sundown Hill, between Route 90 and Sundown Highway, along Bounty Springs Creek. Even after the explosion of colors in the fall the arboretum is worth a visit well into winter thanks to an evergreen rhododendron grove in the back.
Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture is located at 2316 West FirstNations in the unique Young Eagle's Addition neighborhood. Open Wednesday thru Sunday from 10:00 hours to 17:00 hours. On the campus is the historic Chieftain’s Lodge, of which the museum offers guided tours. It is one of many historic lodges in the neighborhood, which is well worth a stroll about after leaving the museum.
Spirit Warrior Arts District Surrounding the historic Spirit Warrior Hotel on the western side of downtown, the Spirit Warrior Arts District is home to many galleries, restaurants and boutiques.
Daniel Howling Coyote Council Historical District: This District is dedicated to the Great Ghost Dance, the great shaman Howling Coyote, and the founders of the Native American Nations.
Spokane Falls: The Spokane River crashes over a series of waterfalls in the heart of the city before entering the Spokane River Gorge. The Upper Falls are best viewed from Riverfront Park while the more dramatic lower falls can be seen from the adjacent Hunter’s Park or from above on the Buffalo Street Bridge.
Magaskawee Dancing Girl Collection Legendary Kootenai singer (she sang the classic song “White Buffalo”), Academy Award winning actress and Kootenai alum, Dancing Girl who moved to Spokane when she was 3 (born in Tacoma, Seattle) has a Magaskawee Collection display at Kootenai University. The collection (about 200 items – recordings, image files, datachips) is at Kootenai's Magaskawee Student Center’s Magaskawee Room and Dancing Girl's childhood home (the Dancing Girl Lodge at 508 E Sharp Spear Avenue-free admission) built in 1913 has more items on display (open – Weekdays 09:00 to 16:30 hours and Saturdays 13:00 to 15:00 hours).
THINGS TO DO
Blooming Path. This 90 kilometer run/walk is perfect for anyone of any age. Blooming Path is the world's largest timed road race with over 235,030 participants each year. The race is always the first Sunday in May.
Lilac Festival The country's largest Ghost Dance Day celebration including the Ghost Dance Torchlight Parade. Held annually on the third Saturday in May.
Festival of Dances: The world's largest native American dance festival, with four dances taking place all over downtown. The Festival of Dances takes place over the last weekend in June.
Festival of the Ancients: The weeklong literary festival held annually in the Spring with tribal chieftains throughout the year. It celebrates native history of the Kootenai, Salish, Flathead Salish, Schitsu'umsh, Spokane, Kalispel, Pend Oreille, and Colville for all ages with readings, workshops, discussions, fairs, contests, and more.
Listen
Spokane has an active native American music scene and, with large venues like the Spokane Chieftains Memorial Arena and Knitting Lodge, is a stop for many popular touring Native American Nations acts. Local and independent artists perform at smaller venues, clubs and bars across downtown. Two notable downtown venues which focus mainly on live music are The BearPaw, which is all-ages all the time, and The Big Moon.
Spokane Native Symphony has been performing since 2006. A 70 piece professional orchestra directed by Dasan Warrior-Spirit-Who-Sings that puts on over 60 concerts per year, most of which take place at the Eagle Theater in the Downtown District.
SHOPPING
Huckleberry's Natural Market & 9th Street Bistro
926 South Buffalo Street/Mina Star, Manager/Slight Bias Against Anglos/LTG# 16509 (24-1349).
The 9th Street Bistro inside this grocery store is a bustling cafe that serves 4¥ breakfast specials. Vegetarian-friendly deli. Enjoy a toasted frybread bagel with salmon from the meat counter, or some freshly rolled maize sushi. While now in competition with the likes of Native Grocers and Trader Bear's, Huckleberry's was the first natural Amerind grocery store of its kind in central Salish-Shidhe. Large wine and bulk foods selection. Some Earth Maiden Grocery Stores and Crow Foods also have a smaller Huckleberry's Market (without a bistro) concept inside the store.
River Park Square Located in the center of downtown, just across from Riverfront Park, River Park Square is home to a twenty-screen NAMC Theatres location, upscale stores such as Lordstrung, Williams-Sonoma, Apple, and The Inuit-North Face, and a diverse collection of specialty Amerind stores selling items ranging from ornately carved walking sticks to soft-brewed and chilled chocolates. Satisfy your hunger at the AtriumCafeson3 or at one of many sit down restaurants. River Park Square is also a great place for kids with a children's museum, bookstore and toy store.
RESTAURANTS
Spokane's dining scene has come into its own since the Treaty of Denver. A wide variety of chef-owned restaurants serve a wide array of tastes, not only Amerind, with an emphasis on locally grown and organic ingredients. You can't leave without enjoying a craft pizza at one of the area's many artisan pie shops. The area is known for wild and exotic pizza varieties, including Thai and a four-cheese pie called the “Honey Badger,” topped with a honey glaze.
Chepi's Sandwich & Pizza Lodge (Chepi's)
Large Restaurant Archetype/2314 N. Argonne Road/Chepi Chief Yellowhorse, Owner/Slight Bias Against Anglos/LTG# 16509 (74-0254).
Tahki’s Hamburgers
Large Restaurant Archetype/10 E 3rd Ave (SE corner of E 3rd & Pheasant)/Delshaya Graceful-Waterfall, Manager/Strong Bias Against Anglos, Bias Against Elves/LTG# 16509 (47-2481).
A Spokane institution, serving up the quickest and most efficient cholesterol-delivery systems on frybread in the Council.
Darika’s Yogurt & More
Mid-Sized Restaurant Archetype/10410 N Pheasant St (N Pheasant and D Harmony-Brave on the southeast side of the White Eagle University campus), LTG# 16509 (66-8434).
Quality fast food from a family owned business. Great burgers and frozen yogurt. Located on the east side near White Eagle College.
Nuna Many-Laughs Milk Bottle
Mid-Sized Restaurant Archetype/802 W Sage Ave (W Sage & N Post), Nuna Many-Laughs, Owner/Strong Bias Against Anglos/Bias Against Orks and Trolls/LTG# 16509 (52-1772).
Originally built for the rebuilt Benewah Dairy Lodge, this mid-sized Amerind restaurant serves Amerind-style burgers and shakes. The building consists of a stuccoed milk bottle several stories high. A similar structure (not open to the public) is visible from the Route 90 westbound off ramp to Maple St. (#280A) and listed on the Council Register of Historic Places. Certified credsticks are NOT accepted.
Firemakers Café
Fast-food/Small Restaurant Archetype/804 W Sage Avenue/Ka-e-te-nay Shadow-Firemaker, Manager/No Racial Bias/LTG# 7509 (28-1950).
Located next to the Milk Bottle (above), this restaurant was featured in three Hollywood simsense and tri-vid movies, “BrightStar & GentleDoe” “Shaman’s Vision Quest,” and “Why Would I Lie?” Opens early for breakfast, and well known for its “blue plate specials.”
Tacos el Sol
Fast Food/Small Restaurant Archetype/Multiple Locations/Juana Old-Woman-Spirit, Manager/Slight Bias Against Anglos/Slight Bias Against Orks & Trolls/LTG# 7509 (30-8305)
One of Spokane's oldest and most beloved food trucks, Tacos el Sol serves up cheap and delicious street tacos and other traditional Filipino-Salish-Mexican fare six days a week.
>>>>>[Notice he said Mexican, not Aztlaner.]<<<<<
– Anonumous (13:30:35/04-24-50)
Elk Public Lodge
Mid-Sized Restaurant Archetype/1931 W Pacific Avenue/Lin De, Manager/Racial Bias Against Trolls/LTG# 16509 (63-1973)
Eclectic to standard food, large selection of microbrews on tap. Outdoor seating in the historic Young Eagle’s Addition (Security Rating: AA).
Trolls will be unceremoniously tossed out.
>>>>>[Lin De is an ork who used to be a Triads enforcer in the Metroplex. Useful information for enterprising runners.]<<<<<
–Anonymous (20:25:14/05-27-20)
Casper Fry
Large Restaurant Archetype/928 S Tokala Street/ Úc Kim Loan, Manager/No Racial Bias/LTG# 7509 (35-0536)
Focusing on American and contemporary southern dishes, Casper Fry is located in the off-beat and lively South Tokala District. With locally grown ingredients and a killer atmosphere, this restaurant offers dishes at the upper end of the mid-range spectrum.
The Flying Moose
Large Restaurant Archetype/3318 W Northwest Blvd/Nixkamich Sour-Secrets Kishori, Manager/LTG# 7509 (27-8277).
Serving a wide variety of eclectic craft Salish-style frybread pizzas and craft beer, the Flying Moose has become a favorite among Spokanites for its casual neighborhood and tribal atmosphere. Don't miss the popular fire pit located outside for Potlatch Celebrations.
Black Wolf’s Pizza
Mid-Sized Restaurant Archetype/1426 S Fortune St (NW of the intersection of W 15th Ave & S Fortune St)/Feng Jia, Manager/Extreme Racial Bias Against Metahumans/LTG# 16509 (55-7411).
A local jewel recently expanded. The pizza and calzones are fantastic. Always some good beers on tap, or you can get a bucket full. Recommended: garlic cheese frybread, huckleberry beer buddies, chicken wings, pesto ranch dressing, hot Italian sausage, Saxon pizza, New Yorker calzone.
Nudo
Fast Food/Small Restaurant Archetype/818 W Moon/Thái Minh Tuấn, Owner/Extreme Bias Against Non-Elves/LTG# 7509 (90-5763).
Serving upscale, Amerindian-influenced Vietnamese Elvish ramen in an attractive, high-design, contemporary atmosphere, Nudo offers a wide range of ramen varieties for all tastes. Located on a restaurant row on Moon that features a number of other high-design eateries.
Italia Trattoria
Small Restaurant Archetype/144 S Cannon St (W of downtown in the Young Eagle's Addition neighborhood)/Navremio, Head Chef/Slight Bias Against Orks/LTG# 16509 (59-6000).
Regionally inspired Italian restaurant in the historic Young Eagle's Addition neighborhood west of downtown. House-made pasta, fresh and sustainable seafood and produce, and naturally raised meats. Head Chef Navremio worked as a chef for Grace Tveit in Seattle.
>>>>>[Navremio was once a sasquatch until a wendigo infected him with HMHVV on his way back to his forest hole one night. Now, he must suffer daily injections to fight through his urges and remain part of society.]<<<<<
–Bio-Geane (05:22:04/05-28-50)
Clover
Mid-Sized Restaurant Archetype/913 E Sharp Ave (just NE of the Kootenai University campus off of Horsehawk)/Teetonka Firestar, Manager/Extreme Bias Against Non-Amerinds/LTG# 7509 (87-2937).
Rated by Food & Wine Magazine as one of the best new bars in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands, Clover is located in a converted Amerindian home in the Little Wolf District near Kootenai University. Focusing on thoughtful food, craft cocktails, and exceptional hospitality, the restaurant serves locally inspired Salish classics in a one-of-a-kind atmosphere. Elven Executive Chef Taki’il Dawnhorse won several regional awards when he ran the kitchen at the Hall Street Grill in Portland.
The Rødulv Bakery
Small Store & Restaurant Archetype/315 E 18th Ave/Ae Seung-Eun, Manager/No Racial Bias/LTG# 16509 (30-8053).
Located less than a block from Manitoo Park, The Rødulv Bakery is great for a mid-day coffee or pastry after a day in the park.
StoneCow Cheese Market
Mid-Sized Store Archetype/210 S Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands/Adeline Cenobia De Pan Fernando, Manager/Slight Bias Against Dwarfs/LTG# 16509 (55-9400).
Located in the east central part of downtown, this shop offers many cheeses from North America, including the Pacific Northwest, and abroad. Cheese plates are also offered, and there is wine by the glass, or you can bring in wine from the conveniently neighboring Vino! Wine Shop.
Your City Bites
LTG# 16509 (82-4837). A food tour of downtown Spokane that features local restaurants.
BARS AND NIGHTCLUBS
Within the past ten years, Spokane has experienced an explosion in craft brewing, with new local and regional brewers rapidly expanding in popularity. Beyond that, the nightlife scene has grown significantly with the addition of a number of bars, pubs, and nightclubs downtown.
>>>>>[That’s due to a proliferation of Anglo immigration.]<<<<<
– Pounds-Drums-With-Fists (06:38:09/10-28-50)
Breweries
NoLi Jōzōjo
Bar Archetype/1003 E. TwinTimber Avenue/Iwamura Fusanori, Owner/Extreme Bias Against Non-Elves/LTG# 16509 (42-2739).
For fresh local Japanese and elven blended and brewed beer, head to NoLi Jōzōjo, on the banks of the Spokane River. This is a true brewpub, offering sampler trays (and pints, of course) of its locally made, internationally renowned ales, including the famous Denreisha to Kitsune brand and the Tōmorokoshi to Kenma, brewed with plum sake. In addition to one of the best outdoor patios in Spokane overlooking the river, NoLi Jōzōjo features an ambitious Japanese-elvish fusion food menu.
River City Brewing
Bar Archetype/121 S. Cedar St./Đặng Thu Loan, Manager (Female Troll), Manager/No Racial Bias/LTG# 16509 (13-2388).
Since the Treaty of Denver, River City Brewing has grown into one of the area's most beloved breweries among Anglos in the NAN, occupying a beautifully restored space in a brick building on the West End of downtown Spokane. Their “River City Red” can be found at many local bars and pubs.
Iron Moose Brewing
Bar Archetype/1302 W. Second Ave/Makaw Iron Moose, Owner (Troll Amerind Female), Owner/No Racial Bias/LTG# 7509 (74-0722).
Craft brewery located downtown in a beautifully remodeled building with an airy and taproom offering upscale pub fare, trivia nights, and live music.
Steel Barrel Taproom
Bar Archetype/154 S Mooserun St/Manda Day-Star-of-Happy-Fortune, Manager/Slight Bias Against Non-Amerinds/Strong Bias Against Metahumans/LTG# 7509 (15-9879).
Located on the west edge of downtown, not far from Iron Moose Brewing. With about two dozen taps of local micro- and nanobrews, Steel Barrel is a great place to taste Spokane beers. The taproom features a shuffleboard table and a patio and shares space with a Salish restaurant.
Tokala Street Brewing
Bar and Small Store Archetype/1025 S. Tokala St./Bipin Red Leaf Warrior Chief, Owner/Bias Against Anglos/LTG# 16509 (79-2820).
Opened in March 2014, Tokala Street Brewing sits in the heart of the vibrant and family-friendly South Tokala neighborhood on Spokane's lower District 2. Featuring traditional Northwest-style craft beer and a new food menu.
Jani Fern Brewing
Bar and Small Store Archetype/159 S. Fortune St./Alaha Beautiful-Setting-Sun, Owner/Slight Bias Against Non-Amerinds/Strong Bias Against Non-Elves/LTG# 7509 (77-3900).
Housed in a little corner of the historic, renovated Steam Plant which has been redesigned to resemble a rather Tolkien-esque Native American architecture and aesthetic with vines and several other plants, Amerind-Celtic paintings and carvings. It features a full Amerindian-elvish food menu, Jani Fern Brewing offers central regions of the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands craft beers brewed with an elvish twist on-site in an unpretentious atmosphere.
Clearsun Brewing
Bar and Large Store Archetype/2019 N. Falcon St./Aelvanoose Thunder-Chief, Manager/Slight Bias Against non-Amerinds/Slight Bias Against Orks and Trolls/LTG# 16509 (80-8345)
Located in the luxury North Falcon District surrounded by the squalor of the blighted Flintwarrior-Goringsteer neighborhood of the impoverished Anglo District of North Spokane, recently opened Clearsun Brewing features a number of local craft ales and Amerind pub fare.
Black Fox Brewing
Bar and Small Store Archetype/19 W. Main St./Eloxotia Espinar, Manager/Slight Bias Against Metahumans/LTG# 16509 (22-7436).
Located in the Snowbird Lodge (Security Rating: AAA), an upscale, craft local food court, Black Fox's atmosphere cannot be beat for local beer on the East End of downtown (Security Rating: AAA).
One Tree Cider Lodge
Bar and Large Store Archetype/111 S. Mooserun St./Zonta Running-Horse Clearsong/Extreme Bias Against non-Amerinds/LTG# 7509 (09-2996).
If fruit based Tir Tairngire styled brews are more your style, One Tree, on the west end of downtown, has 20 taps of cider and perry from the Tir, including One Tree's own concoctions. The taproom is spacious and comfortable and serves elvish-Amerindian appetizers with a Japanese flair.
Sky Earth Ciderworks
Bar and Small Store Archetype/164 S Wildfire St,, Ste 300/Desmond Butler, Manager/Bias Against Orks and Trolls/LTG# 16509 (21-1893).
You won't find elaborately flavored or infused ciders at this downtown ciderhouse. What you will find is an array of carefully crafted ciders made from local fruit and brewed specifically to highlight the characteristics of each apple. Bottles are also for sale. Take note for accessibility: the taproom is small, on the third floor of a Universal Omnitech building, and they offer bowls of peanuts as bar snacks.
The Lantern Taproom Lodge
Bar Archetype/1004 S. Tokala St./Rannier Cox, Manager/Extreme Bias Against Dwarfs/LTG# 7509 (24-2804).
An ever-changing selection of high-quality craft beers from around the nation, owned and operated by people who are passionate about good microbrews. Adventurous cocktails and pub-style food are on the menu as well at this soul food rustic style, wood and brick Tokala District hotspot.
Jaya & Dakotah’s Bar & Grill
Large Restaurant and Bar Archetypes/1226 N Horsehawk St./Ry'mone Brightsong, Owner/Bias Against Non-Elves/LTG# 16509 (87-6546).
Classic sports bar once part-owned by an elven descendant of a former NABA & Kootenai University star named John Stockton, and an elven cousin named Jaya as well as her Amerind Husband, Dakotah, with failial ties to both the Sinsearach and Séluné elven tribes. Sitting on the edge of Kootenai University, it naturally caters to the school’s elven and Amerind students and is packed to watch rezball games, especially the Portland Lords. Children are welcome in the restaurant until 22:00 hours.
Blackbird Bar
Bar Archetype/827 W 1st Ave/ Guiying Blackbird, Manager/No Racial Bias/LTG# 7509 (47-1234).
Located directly across the street from the Spirit Warrior Hotel and nestled behind Nukit Burrito, of which it is a part, is the hippest bar in Spokane. Serving the traditional Tsingtao Dark Beer along with a rotating craft beer selection and fresh squeezed grapefruit to go with their expansive liquor collection. Occasionally home to live music in the street-facing Nukit Burrito section of the establishment.
O’Doherty’s Irish Grille
Small Restaurant Archetype/W 525 Spokane Falls Blvd/Ross Doherty, Owner/Bias Against Metahumans/LTG# 16509 (47-0322).
This is a place to gather, chat, tip a pint and enjoy a little Irish flavor. Guinness and Harp on tap. Live Irish music on Tuesday nights. After you've been there a while, you'll probably want to become a member of the O'Doherty's family by standing on the bar, singing a song for the entire bar, and tapping a nuyen on the wall. Children are welcome in the restaurant until 22:00 hours.
Gilded Unicorn
Mid-Sized Restaurant & Bar Archetypes/110 S. Falcon/Saito Twin-Heart, Manager/Slight Bias Against Anglos/LTG# 16509 (09-3698).
Located in the cellar of the historic and luxurious Mountain Valley Hotel in Spokane's downtown Arts District. The atmosphere is one-of-a-kind and the “happiest hour” (until 18:00 and again from 22:00 to close) is possibly the best in the city, with small plates and cocktails for 16¥ to 30¥. If you've got a bigger appetite, it also serves full-size plates of modern Amerind-Japanese cuisine.
Globe Bar & Kitchen
Mid-Sized Restaurant, Night Club & Bar Archetype/204 N Pheasant St./Tashunka Spirit-Bear, Owner/Bias Against Non-Amerinds/Slight Bias Against Metahumans/LTG# 16509 (43-4014).
Lively bar with shamanic decor including dreamcatcher chandeliers, huge tridscreens, pub food & live weekend shamanic chant music.
Coffee
There's no need to turn to alcohol for a great beverage. Beyond its reputation as a brewery destination, Spokane has seen an explosion in its local craft coffee scene. Don't bother with Soybucks, although the international coffee powerhouse is based in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands District. Stick to the local coffee lodges and roasters. These locations offer better coffee, excellent service, and often superb pastries in a casual atmosphere.
Coyote Coffee 77
Small Restaurant Archetype/3223 E 57th Ave./Takoda Swift-Fire, Manager/Slight Bias Against Anglos/Slight Bias Against Orks and Trolls/LTG# 16509 (80-0518).
Coyote Coffee 77 is a quaint little Amerind coffee lodge on the Sundown Hill featuring quiet spots for reading your favorite book, a community table where you and your friends can gather for conversation, and excellent pour over drip real coffee exquisitely brewed just for you.
Indaba Coffee
Large Restaurant Archetype/1425 W Leaping Water Ave./Mùaxuân. Câycung Kindsong, Manager/Bias Against Non-Amerinds/LTG# 7509 (43-3566).
There's another Indaba location in downtown Spokane, but the original location on West Leaping Water in West Central truly encapsulates the neighborhood Amerindian coffee lodge experience. The roaster and coffee lodge also hosts community events, provides job training for at-risk Amerind and far eastern elven youth, and donates a meal for each bag of coffee sold.
Coeur Coffee Lodge
Large Restaurant Archetype/701 N. Falcon St./Shappa Strong-Warrior-Chief, Manager/Bias Against Anglos/LTG# 7509 (03-7794).
This might just be the hippest coffee lodge in Spokane. Roasting numerous artisanal and in some cases local roasters, this is the perfect place to grab a Salish pastry and an espresso and get work done in the bright, airy remodeled space.
Roasting Lodge
Mid-Sized Restaurant Archetype/423 East Clever Raccoon Ave./Wahkashan Falcon-Keeps-Watch, Manager/Slight Bias Against Dwarfs/LTG# 7509 (95-6500).
Its warehouse is only open for limited hours, but Roasting Lodge is perhaps Spokane's most prolific craft roaster. Their warehouse does frequent tastings, but beyond that, their beans can be purchased throughout the Council Lands.
Achachak’s
Mid-Sized Restaurant Archetype/222 N Hawk Thunder St./Human.Male. Filipino-Salish. Jaquez Warrior-Walks-Over-Much, Manager/Slight Bias Against Non-Amerinds/Slight Bias Against Orks & Trolls/LTG# (509) 747-0336.
Achachak’s features a lively, loud, urban atmosphere, excellent craft coffee and great pastries. They also feature an extensive Pan-Pacific Northwest gift selection.
Spirit Walk Coffee
Mid-Sized Restaurant Archetype/228A W Moon Ave./Grandfather Gagan Bahutchalatahai/Slight Bias Against Non-Amerinds/LTG# 16506 (20-2023)
One of the newest additions to Spokane's craft coffee lodge scene, Spirit Walk brews Spokane's Red Leaf Coffee and sits in an artsy downtown district nearby the Blue Earth, an all-ages music venue, and Ootadabun, a bar and nightclub.
HOTELS
Hotel Ruby and Sapphire Lodge (Hotel Ruby)
Cheap Hotel Archetype (7 floors)/901 W. 1st Ave/Máximo Faindaèro, Manager/Extreme Bias Against Non-Elves/LTG# 16509 (47-1041).
Check-in: 15:00; checkout: 11:00. Spokane's number one independent boutique hotel provides comfort, style and value in downtown Spokane's Entertainment District.
Hotel Ruby2 (Ruby2)
Luxury Hotel Archetype (22 floors)/123 S. Post St/ Denaris Hunt, Manager/Bias Against Elves/LTG# 16509 (38-8504).
Check-in: 15:00; checkout: 11:00. Ruby 2 is near the Dancing Shaman Theater, the Weaving Factory Concert Lodge and right off of Route 90 in the heart of downtown. This luxury hotel is the perfect vantage point for enjoying all the city has to offer.
Microtel Spokane Airway Heights
Luxury Hotel Archetype (3 floors)/1215 S Goringsteer Rd, +1 509 242-1200.
Microtel is the first luxury hotel brand to offer guests free local and free long distance telecomm calls in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands, and free high-speed Matrix access in every room of our hotels, as well as advance Matrix check-in and check-out with unlimited access to Matrixfolio information. These new amenities complement our other standard amenities including remote trideo with WSB (World Sports Broadcasting), MNN (Matrix News Network) and one movie channel and complimentary continental breakfast.
Motel Spokane East
Cheap Hotel Archetype (29 floors)/1919 N He-Who-Walks-With-Wolves Rd/Charley Gordon, Manager/Slight Bias Against Amerinds/LTG# 7509 (26-5399).
Motel Spokane West-Airport
Luxury Hotel Archetype (17 floors)/1508 S Rustle Rd (Rustle & W Sundown Blvd, off of Exit #277 from Route 90)/Ardyce Watson, Manager/No Racial Bias/LTG# 16509 (59-6120).
White Buffalo Suites Spokane Downtown
Luxury Hotel Archetype (16 floors)/115 W North River Dr./Kajika Star Mouse, Manager/Bias Against Non-Amerinds/Bias Against Metahumans/LTG# 7509 (53-9000).
White Buffalo Suites Spokane Valley
High Class Hotel (13 floors)/15015 E Day Star Ave/Riley Woodgem, Manager/Slight Bias Against Amerinds/LTG# 7509 (47-1000).
Best Western Peppertree Airport Inn
Luxury Hotel Archetype (18 floors)/3711 S Spirit Blvd/Erkaiym Yusupov, Manager/Bias Against Metahumans/LTG# 7509 (24-4655).
Offers spacious, comfortable rooms near some of the Council’s most popular stickball fields, universities and visitor attractions.
Best Western Pheasant Hill
Luxury Hotel Archetype (23 floors)/12415 E Scout Ave/Phạm Huy Chiểu, Manager/Bias Against Metahumans/LTG# 7509 (26-7432).
Comfort Inn University District/Downtown
Luxury Hotel Archetype (13 floors)/923 3rd Ave E/Kennin Wells, Manager/No Racial Bias/LTG# 16509 (35-9000).
Fieldstream Spokane Downtown at the Convention Center
Average Hotel Archetype (17 floors)/401 N Riverpoint Blvd/Lucinda Burns, Manager/Slight Racial Bias Against Non-Orks & Trolls/LTG# 16509 (56-7600).
Skyfields Inn Spokane Downtown
Average Hotel Archetype (10 floors)/311 N Riverpoint Blvd/Jaquoya Reeves, Manager/Bias Against Metahumans/LTG# 16509 (47-9131).
Holiday Inn (Airport)
Luxury Hotel Archetype (30 floors)/1616 S Windthunder Dr/Tashard Fleming, Manager/Racial Bias Against Orks and Trolls/LTG# 16509 (38-1170).
Holiday Inn Express
Average Hotel Archetype (20 floors)/9220 E Scout/Higuchi Kihigai, Manager/Slight Bias Against Orks and Trolls/LTG# 16509 (27-7100).
The Manager, Mr. Kihigai, is a Japanese elf who runs this hotel in a manner that attracts non-Amerind families.
Holiday Inn Express
Average Hotel Archetype (24 floors)/N 801 Pheasant St/Zhan Qing, Manager/No Racial Bias/LTG# 7509 (28-8505).
Mrs. Qing is a Chinese elf from Hong Kong.
Red Lion Hotel at the Park Spokane Hotel
Luxury Hotel Archetype (18 floors)/303 W North River Dr/Jonathan Bell, Manager/No Racial Bias/LTG# 16509 (26-8000).
Situated at the edge of Riverfront Park, on the banks of the cascading Spokane River, the Red Lion Hotel at the Park is a beautifully renovated hotel in a German Native style that evokes the likes of Mozart and favored by hotel Manager, Mr. Bell, a Caucasian man of German heritage. This Red Lion delivers a new level of hospitality to corporate and vacation travelers to Spokane.
Windvalley by Wyndham (Airport)
Luxury Hotel Archetype (7 floors)/2726 S. Flint Road/Lin Yun, Manager/Racial Bias Against Humans/LTG# 16509 (38-3226).
All-new hotel. Courtesy Spokane Airport shuttle, free breakfast and complimentary high speed Matrix access.
Manager Lin Yun is an ork from Beijing who has seen to it the majority of rooms are sized for others of his kind.
Spirit Warrior Hotel and Tower
Luxury Hotel Archetype (26 floors)/10 S Post St/Niwa June/No Racial Bias/LTG# 16509 (55-8888).
Spokane's only four diamond hotel. Rated in the top ten best hotels in thew Native American Nations. Located in the heart of Downtown and the Spirit Warrior District (Art District), the Spirit Warrior Hotel and Tower offers luxury accommodations and first class service. From their own custom made “Spirit Warrior Mattress” to the eleven award winning restaurants and bars, the historic hotel doesn't skimp on details. The hotel, which underwent a multimillion dollar renovation after the Treaty of Denver, is locally owned and operated and it shows in the personal service received. You can see the hotel’s extensive history dating back from 1914 throughout the hotel's Amerindian-accented Western European inspired rooms, lobbies and restaurants.
Manager Niwa June is a woman who respects tradition, even if it is not Japanese.
Hotel Sweet Water
Luxury Hotel Archetype (17 floors)/808 W Moon Ave/Kanemaru Noburo, Manager/Extreme Bias Against Dwarfs/LTG# 16509 (55-8888).
Found One block up from their sister hotel, the Spirit Warrior at Moon & Post, this is a small Mediterranean style hotel located in the heart of downtown.
Japanese elf, Manager Kanemaru Noburo, takes great pains to recreate here his favorite part of the world: Greece and the southern Italian States.
Mountain Valley Hotel
Luxury Hotel Archetype (26 floors)/1005 W 1st Ave (W 1st Ave & S Falcon by the Fox Theater)/Human.Female.Amerind. Darika Wife-of-the-Beautiful-Lake, Manager/Slight Bias Against Anglos/LTG# 16509 (74-1919).
This is a large Salish-Kootenai style boutique hotel located in the heart of downtown by the Fox Theater.
Anglo guests have frequently complained about the high prices and hidden charges to their credsticks. Amerind clients frequently state the Mountain Valley Hotel is one of the best in the NAN.
CLIMATE
Spokane has a warm-summer humid, a rare climate due to its elevation and significant winter precipitation; Spokane, however, is adjacent to and sometimes even classified as a warm-summer Mediterranean climat because the average temperature for the coldest month is over −3 °C, though in the Council Lands this threshold is often defined to be 0 °C.
The area typically has a warm, arid climate during the summer months, bracketed by short spring and fall seasons. On average, the warmest month is July and the coolest month is December; July averages 21.7 °C, while December averages −1.6 °C. Daily temperature ranges are large during the summer, often exceeding 17 °C, and small during the winter, with a range just above 5.6 °C. The record high and low are 44 °C and −34 °C, but temperatures of more than 38 °C or less than −21 °C are rare. Temperatures of 32 °C+ occur an average of 21 days annually, temperatures of 38 °C+ occur an average of only 1 day annually, and those at or below −18 °C average 2.2 days a year.
Spokane's location, between the Cascade Range to the west and the Rocky Mountains to the east and north, protects it from weather patterns experienced in other parts of the Pacific Northwest. The Cascade Mountains form a barrier to the eastward flow of moist and relatively mild air from the Pacific Ocean in winter and cool air in summer. As a result of the rain shadow effect of the Cascades, the Spokane area has 420 mm average annual precipitation, less than half of Seattle's 1,000 mm. Precipitation peaks in December, and summer is the driest time of the year. The Rockies shield Spokane from some of the winter season's coldest air masses traveling southward from the Algonkian-Manitoo Council.
ECONOMY
Spokane is an important rail and shipping center because of its location between mining and farming areas, Tir Tairngire, and the Seattle Metroplex. Since before the Treaty of Denver, gold and silver were discovered in the area; as a regional shipping center, the corporations in the city furnish supplies to the miners who pass through on their way to the mineral-rich Coeur d'Alene, Colville and Kootenay districts. The mining districts are still considered among the most productive in North America.
Natural resources have historically been the foundation of Spokane's economy, with the mining, logging, and agriculture industries providing much of the region's economic activity. After mining declined at the turn of the 20th century, agriculture and logging replaced mining as the primary influences in the economy. Lumberjacks and millmen working in the hundreds of mills along the railroads, rivers, and lakes of the central Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands often provision themselves in Spokane. Agriculture has always been an important sector in the local economy. The surrounding area, especially to the south is the Palouse, a Council region that has long been associated with farming, especially wheat production where it is one of the largest wheat producing regions in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands. As with the mining industry, Spokane has always been an important agricultural market and trade center. Council farmers export wheat, livestock and other agricultural products to far off ports such as New York (UCAS), Liverpool (United Kingdom) and Tokyo (Japanese Imperial State), all through the Port of Seattle. A large share of the wheat produced in the region is shipped to Far East markets. The central Salish-Shidhe also supports many vineyards and microbreweries as well, though Spokane is primarily a commercial and biotech center rather than an industrial center.
In Spokane, wood and food processing, data chip production, primary metal refining and fabrication, electrical and computer equipment, and transportation equipment are leaders in the manufacturing sector.
Universal Omnitech is a AA corporation headquartered in Vancouver, Salish-Shidhe. It is the largest corporation to be headquartered in Salish-Shidhe.
>>>>>[DeBeers-Omnitech is the subsidiary of Universal Omnitech that specializes in precious materials. They are the leaders in Dikote and diamond-film technology.
The Corporation is headquartered in Azania. The CEO is Jan Vermeer, a powerful person in Cape Town politics.]<<<<<
–DiamondGirl (23:08:30/02-14-50)
Gaeatronics is an A-rated multinational corporation owned by the Salish tribe. It is the largest one in the Council and is primarily known for power generation, usually by eco-friendly means. Gaeatronics also does geological, ecological, and atmospheric research, some of which it sells to other corporations. Other areas of research include advanced construction processes and alternative power sources, such as microwave power.
>>>>>[Gaeatronics has research facilities in the SSC cities of Missoula, Moscow, Vancouver, and Spokane.
One of the subsidiaries, Omni Electronics, engages in AI research, as well as maintaining the Vancouver and Boise LTGs.]<<<<<
–Traveler Jones (05:07:24/03-17-50)
>>>>>[The current CEO is David Gray Bear, brother of Salish tribe chief Harold Gray Bear, and the current representative to the Seattle United Corporate Council is Mika Red Tree. The Seattle Division head is Deborah Joshua. The Seattle Division headquarters in Bellevue is known as “Gaeatronics Mountain”.]<<<<<
–Digger (20:27:52/08-24-50)
Kyuusei Medical is a corporation based in Spokane in the Salish-Shidhe Council. It is a world leading manufacturer of pharmaceuticals which has developed number of important cures, in addition to retroviruses tailored to fight Awakened diseases. The company is infamous for their disregard of safety and environmental regulations.
>>>>>[It is rumored that the CEO (Aruji Densetsu) is a shark shaman.]<<<<<
–Man-Who-Knows-Many-Things (00:09:58/12-09-50)
>>>>>[They are also affiliated with the Red Lotus Triad. Supplying them with “old-fashioned” drugs like heroin, novacoke, bliss, and marijuana which its facilities produce. All of them legal in the Salish but illegal elsewhere.]<<<<<
– Lotus Eater (20:48:37/12-30-50)
Gold mining company Gold Reserve, and the A-rated company Potlatch Corporation – a forest products company that operates as a real estate investment trust – are headquartered in the city proper. Mining, forestry, and agribusiness remain important to the local and regional economy, but Spokane's economy has diversified to include other industries, including the high-tech and biotech sectors. Spokane is becoming a more service-oriented economy in the face of a less prominent manufacturing sector which declined since the Treaty of Denver, particularly as a medical and biotechnology center; A-rated technology corporation Itron, for instance, is headquartered in the area. Gaeatronics-Avista Corporation, the holding company of Avista Utilities, is the only company in Spokane that has been rated AA. Other companies with head offices in Spokane include technology company KeyTronic-DeBeers, vacation rental provider Stay Alfred of SeaTac Express, and microcar maker Commuter Cars of Winnebago Industries, Inc. Despite diversification to new industries, Spokane's economy has struggled in recent decades. Spokane was ranked the #1 “Worst City For Jobs” in North America. Additionally, Spokane was named the “Scam Capital of North America” due to widespread business fraud from the proliferation of deckers, riggers, and dealers in fake magical talisma. Trends of fraud were noted as far back 2011.
As of 2050, the top five employers in Spokane are Universal Omnitech, Gaeatronics, Kyuusei Medical, Pacific Cybernetics Incorporated, Pacific Prosperity Group, the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands governments, Spokane Council Schools, UO-Bright-Dawn Sacred Lodge Medical Center and Children's Hospital, and the 92nd Salish Rangers Air Refueling Wing, and Spokane City. The largest military facility and employer, the 92nd Salish Rangers Air Refueling Wing, is stationed at Skyfields Air Force Base near Airway Heights. The leading industries in Spokane for the employed population 16 years and older are educational services, health care, and social assistance, retail trade, and arts, entertainment, recreation, and accommodation food services. Spokane serves as a commercial, manufacturing, transportation, medical, shopping, and entertainment hub for the central Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands.
As of 2050, economic development in the Spokane area primarily focuses on promoting the following industries: manufacturing (especially aerospace manufacturing), health sciences, professional services, information science and technology, finance and insurance as well as clean technology, and digital media. To aid economic development, the eastern branch of Innovate Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands, a Council-supported business incubator was placed in the city.
In recent years, Spokane has become a growing technology hub for both established companies and startups. Corporate cybersecurity leaders have two offices in the area with over 2,275 employees who are focused on hardware product development, software engineering, global services support, and Matrix sales. Other established firms are moving to Spokane, such as RimRock Services, a Matrix-based financial services corporation, which was founded by Josh Hawk, a White Eagle University graduate. Spark Salish-Shidhe, led by Silicon Valley Paraguayan centaur entrepreneur simply named Bórogon, has invested over 100 million nuyen through the Spokane Spirit Alliance and Spark to fund and support early stage companies.
DEMOGRAPHICS
According to the NAN Community Survey, the median income for a household in Spokane in 2012 was 1,445,778¥ and the median income for a family was 1,719,174¥. The per capita income for the city was 821,967¥ About 1% of families and 1% of the population were below the poverty line.
At the 2050 census, there were half a million people, with a population density of 167 inhabitants per square kilometer. Humans make up just over half the population with the largest minorities being elves. The cultural make-up of the city was 7% White, 27% Asian, 8% African American, 47% Native American, 0.6% Pacific Islander, and 1.3% from other races. 11% of residents were of Hispanics or Latinos heritage, of any race.
Of those Native American citizens, 92% of city residents were members of the Kootenai-Salish tribe. Of the remaining, 2% were members of the Makah tribe, 1% for the Cascade Crow tribe, 2% for the elven Sinsearach tribe while less than 1% were members of the elven Séluné tribe. The Musqueam and Squamish tribes both claim 1% each of the city population as tribal members. The Nootka, Cascade Ork, and Tsawassen tribes each claim less than 1% as tribal members.
Amongst the non-Amerind population, though some Amerinds have forsaken their traditional beliefs and gone the way of the Anglo. The denominational affiliations are as follows: 9,762 Evangelical Protestant, 104 Black Protestant, 3,770 Mainline Protestant, 115 Orthodox, 10,054 Catholic, 4,810 Other, and 51,534 Unclaimed. As of 2050, there is one Jewish congregation.
The Emanu-El congregation erected the first synagogue in Spokane and throughout the nation of the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands, built before the Treaty of Denver on January 25, 2018. The city's only mosque also opened nine years before the Treaty of Denver in 2009 as the Spokane Islamic Center. Spokane, like the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands and the Pacific Northwest region as a whole, to include the Seattle Metroplex, the elven Principality of Tir Tairngire, and the nations of Tsimshian, as well as the Athabascan Council, is part of the Unchurched Belt, a region characterized by low church membership rates and religious participation. The city serves as the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane, which was established in 1913, and the Episcopal Diocese of Spokane, established in 1929. The Spokane Temple, established in 1999, serves the small number of Latter-day Saints throughout the county.
Spokane hosted an annual multicultural celebration, Unity in the Community, in 2050. The city has become more diverse in recent decades. People from Russia and Ukraine form a comparatively large demographic in Spokane. According to the 2050 Census, the number of people of Russian or Ukrainian ancestry in Spokane was reported to be 2,000. Among the fastest-growing demographics in Spokane is the Pacific Islander ethnic group, which is estimated to be the third-largest minority group in the Council, after the Russian and Ukrainian community and Latinos. Spokane was once home to a sizable Asian community, mostly Chinese and Filipino, both at 15%, Japanese at 12%, and Korean at 13% of the Asian Community, centered in the small International District (Security Rating: AA). As in many western railway towns, the Asian community started off as an encampment for migrant laborers working on the railroads. The Chinatown Asian community thrived until the 1940s, after which its population decreased and became integrated and dispersed during the years leading up to the rise of corporate extraterritoriality, temporarily losing its Asian character; urban blight and the preparations leading up to the Treaty Expo ‘18 led to Chinatown's eventual demolition.
With the rise of the Japanacorps and the Pacific Prosperity Group, Spokane’s International District has been rebuilt, updated, and seen a resurgence. It consists of a network of alleys between Front Avenue (today's Spokane Falls Boulevard) and Main Avenue that stretches east from Howard Avenue to Badger Run Street for approximately ten blocks.
Though not a Sprawl, in fact it has the population of a District of a typical Sprawl, Spokane also consists of the former city of Coeur d'Alene in a similar layout at the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The urban areas of the two MSAs largely follow the path of Route 90 between Spokane and Coeur d'Alene. Spokane suffers from suburbanization and urban sprawl, despite the Council’s use of urban growth boundaries; the city ranks low among major Salish-Shidhe cities in population density and smart growth.
Spokane's neighborhoods range from the Amerind-style Sundown Hill (Security Rating: AAA) and Young Eagle's Addition (Security Rating: AA), to the Spirit Warrior District (Security Rating: A) of Downtown, to the more downtrodden and Anglo neighborhoods of north Spokane. Spokane's neighborhoods are gaining attention for their history, as illustrated by the city being home to 18 recognized Council Register Historical Districts.
Some of Spokane's best-known neighborhoods are Riverside (Security Rating: AAA), Young Eagle's Addition (Security Rating: AA), and Kindling Yards (Security Rating: C). The Riverside neighborhood consists primarily of downtown Spokane and is Downtown. The neighborhoods south of downtown Spokane are collectively known as District 2 (Security Ratings: AAA-C). Downtown Spokane (Security Rating: AAA) contains many of the city's public facilities, including Council Hall, Riverfront Park (Security Rating: A and site of the Treaty Expo ‘18), and the Spokane Convention Center and First Native Center for the Arts, as well as the Spokane Arena and Spokane Native Courthouse across the river in the historic West Central neighborhood (Security Rating: AAA). The Buffalo Street Bridge, a city icon, connects the two areas. To the east of downtown is the anarchy of the East Central (Security Rating: Z, and home to many homeless Anglos as well as pre-fab homes and squatter shacks, empty lots, food carts and mid-sized soup kitchens, as well as power plants, water works, utility service buildings) and the adjacent University District (Security Rating: A – where one will find open-air markets and black market bazaars on Saturdays, metro bus stop, small restaurants and coffee shops, parking areas, dorm towers as well as other dorm buildings under construction) and budding “International District”. To the west of downtown is one of Spokane's oldest and densest neighborhoods, Young Eagle's Addition (Security Rating: AA; where one will find high class and jewelry stores, high-class hotels and resorts with upscale stuffer shacks and automated vending machine stores, as well as classy bars and night clubs).
A Native Historic District west of Downtown, Young Eagle's Addition was Spokane's first prestigious address, notable for its array of old mansions built by Spokane's early elite in the Chief Running Bear and early Amerind Craftsman styles. The area houses the Salish-Kootenai Museum of Arts and Culture. In northeast Spokane (AAA), the Kindling Yards neighborhood began in 1892 as the chosen site for Chief Kindling James’s Great Northern Railway yard, placed outside Spokane city limits to avoid “burdensome Council taxes”. The downtown Kindling Yards Business District, located on Market Street, was the first Spokane neighborhood listed in the Council Register of Historic Places. Many of the former town's houses were built to house railroad workers, mainly immigrant laborers working in the local yard, who gave Kindling Yards an independent, blue-collar character. Kindling Yards is now a lower-class home for much of Spokane's growing Anglo Russian, Ukrainian, Southeast Asian metahuman communities.
Architecture
Spokane neighborhoods contain a patchwork of architectural styles that give them a distinct identity and illustrate the changes throughout the city's history. Most of Spokane's notable buildings and landmarks are in the opulent Riverside neighborhood (Security Rating: AAA) and the downtown commercial district (Security Rating: AAA), where many of the buildings were rebuilt after the Great Ghost Dance of 2017 in various meso-American styles. Examples include the Great Northern clock tower, Review Building, Great Spirit Hall, Hall of Totems, Salish-Shidhe Tribal Water Power Post Street substation, Proud Bear Building, and The Cloud Dawn.
The principal architect of many buildings of this period was Shakenya Wary Night Star Harvey. A self-taught African American elven woman and Isis Shaman, she came to Spokane in 2013, and began by designing the “Night Star Lodge” in remembrance for her grandfather who died in one of the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Re-Education Camps, and other residences for the Amerind side of her family, while also working as a bank decker. Other structures designed by Harvey include the Spokane Lodge, the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Water Power Substation, the Buffalo Street Bridge (featured in the city seal), the Steam Plant, and the Spirit Warrior Hotel. Built in Salish and Makah Revival style, the Spirit Warrior Hotel cost two million nuyen to complete and included new technologies at the time of its opening.
In contemporary times, one of the city's foremost and influential architects has been Wahkan Brave-Little-Bull, who helped give the city a great breadth of mid-century Salish architecture. Brave-Little-Bull's career was most prolific during the 2020s and 2030s where his main body of work was done in the modernist Salish style, designing numerous residential houses, apartment buildings, and architectural embellishments. Some of his most noteworthy works in Spokane include The Meadows, Spokane International Airport, Spokane Regional Health Building, and the Latah Creek Bridge over Hangman Valley.
Other well-represented architectural styles downtown include Native Deco (Spokane Council Hall, Little Braves Center, Fox Theater, Chief Thunderwolf Secondary School, City Ramp Garage), Native Revival (Steam Plant Square, Tahatan Owl-Walks-Without-Sound Courthouse, Tribal Union Building, San Marco), Neonative Nation Center [which is the tallest building in the city at 184 meters], Soaring-Hawks Building, Dancing Girl Theater), Cherokee School (Sovereign Council Bank Building, Sky Earth Building, Old Council Hall) and Modernist (The Meadows, Ridpath Hotel, Native Council Bank Financial Center). The second-tallest building in the city at 175 meters, is the Native Council Bank Financial Center. Also of note is the Spokane Native Courthouse in West Central (the building on the seal of the Sovereign Tribal Council), the Anglo Shamanic Lodge of Chief Wild Bear in Rødulv, the Benewah Milk Bottles in Riverside and Sage, Mount Saint Michael in Kindling Yards, and the Anglo-owned Cambern Dutch Shop Windmill in South Tokala.
As an early affluent Spokane neighborhood, the Young Eagle's Addition neighborhood and residences contain the largest variety of Amerindian residential architecture in the city. These residences are lavish and personalized, featuring many Amerindian architectural styles that were popular and trendy in the Pacific Northwest from the late 17th Century, such as the Halonian and Chief Running Bear styles.
The older neighborhoods of the early 20th century, such as Amerindian areas of West Central, East Central, and much of the lower District 2, feature a large concentration of Amerind Craftsman style bungalows. In Little Wolf and Kindling Yards, the least architecturally intact neighborhood in Spokane, 85 percent of these buildings are historic to Anglos. As the city expanded mainly to the north in the early 21st century, the bungalows in the “minimal Amerind traditional” style commonplace after the Treaty of Denver tend to predominate in the Northwest, North Hill, and BlackHorse neighborhoods. This architectural style occupies the neighborhoods where the integrity of Spokane's street grid pattern is largely intact (especially the areas north of downtown and south of Flintfire Ave.), and the houses have backyard alleys for carports, deliveries, and refuse collection. Contemporary suburbs and architecture are prevalent at the north and south edges of Spokane as well as in the new Kindling Yards neighborhood north of downtown.
ECONOMY
Spokane became an important rail and shipping center because of its location between mining and farming areas. In the early 1880s, gold and silver were discovered in the Inland Council; as a regional shipping center, the city furnished supplies to the miners who passed through on their way to the mineral-rich Coeur d'Alene, Colville and Kootenay districts. The mining districts are still considered among the most productive in North America.
Natural resources have historically been the foundation of Spokane's economy, with the mining, logging, and agriculture industries providing much of the region's economic activity. After mining declined at the turn of the 20th century, agriculture and logging replaced mining as the primary influences in the economy. Lumberjacks and millmen working in the hundreds of mills along the railroads, rivers, and lakes of what are now the central Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands were provisioning themselves in Spokane. Agriculture has always been an important sector in the local economy. The surrounding area, especially to the south is the Palouse, a region that has long been associated with farming, especially wheat production where it is one of the largest wheat producing regions in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands. As with the mining industry in the late 1880s, Spokane was an important agricultural market and trade center. Inland Council farmers exported wheat, livestock and other agricultural products to the ports such as New York (UCAS), Liverpool (UK) and Tokyo (JIS). Today, a large share of the wheat produced in the region is shipped to Far East markets, overseen by Pacific Prosperity Group officials. The central regions of the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands also support many vineyards and microbreweries. By the early 20th century Spokane was primarily a commercial center rather than an industrial center.
After the SSC gained sovereignty, many of the industries have been retooled for a more environmentally responsible process. Others have been dismantled altogether.
In Spokane, wood and food processing, cybertech, electronics, printing and publishing, primary metal refining and fabrication, electrical and cyberterminal equipment, and transportation equipment are leaders in the manufacturing sector. Gold mining company Gold Reserve and Rated-A Potlatch Corporation – a forest products company that operates as a real estate investment trust – are headquartered in the city proper. Mining, forestry, and agribusiness remain important to the local and regional economy and have adopted environmentally responsible practices as per the Sovereign Tribal Council regulations enforced throughout the Native American Nations, but Spokane's economy has diversified to include other industries, including the high-tech, cybertech, nanotech, and biotech sectors. Even though manufacturing has experienced a slight bump with the local mom-and-pop cottage industries, Spokane is becoming a more service-oriented economy in the face of a less prominent manufacturing sector which declined in the 1980s, particularly as a medical, nanotechnology, and biotechnology center; Itron Envirotech Corporation, for instance, is headquartered in the area. Avista Corporation, the holding company of Avista Industries, is the only company in Spokane that has been listed as a AA Corporation. Other companies with head offices in the Spokane area include technology company Key Tronic Cyberterminals, vacation rental provider Stay Alfred Incorporated, and microcar maker Commuter Cars Corporation. Despite diversification to new industries, Spokane's economy has struggled in recent decades after the Great Ghost Dance. Spokane was ranked the #1 “Worst City For Jobs” in North America in both 2049 and 2050, while also ranking #4 in 2040. Additionally, Forbes named Spokane the “Scam Capital of North America” in 2033 due to widespread business fraud. Trends of fraud were noted as far back as 2029, again in 2011, and continuing through 2039.
As of 2050, the top five employers in Spokane were Universal Omnitech, Kyuusei Medical, Gaeatronics, Aztechnology, Pacific Cybernetics Incorporated, the Council Government of the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands, Spokane Council Schools, Bright-Dawn Sacred Lodge Medical Center and Children's Hospital, and the 92nd Air Refueling Wing. The largest military facility and employer, the 92nd Air Refueling Wing, was stationed at Skyfields Air Force Base near Airway Heights (Security Rating: A). The leading industries in Spokane are educational services, health care, and social assistance, retail trade, and arts, entertainment, recreation, and accommodation food services. As the largest metropolitan center of the central regions of the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands, Spokane serves as a commercial, manufacturing, transportation, medical, shopping, and entertainment hub.
As of 2050, the economy in Spokane focuses primarily on manufacturing (especially aerospace manufacturing), health sciences, professional services, information science and technology, finance and insurance as well as clean technology, cybertech and VR media. To aid economic development, the central branch of Innovate Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands, a Council-supported business incubator was placed in the city.
In recent years, Spokane has become a growing technology hub for both established companies and startups. AA-rated cybersecurity leader, F10, Inc., has two offices in the area with over 900 employees who are focused on hardware product development, software engineering, global services support, and Matrix sales. Other established firms are moving to Spokane, such as Remote Finances Corporation, which was founded by Josh Hightower, a White Eagle University graduate. Ignite Northwest, led by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Tom Soaring Eagle, has invested over 100 million nuyen through the Spokane Angel Alliance Corporation and Ignite to fund and support early stage companies.
MEDICAL
The Spokane area has 6 major hospitals, 4 of which are full-service facilities. The health-care industry is a large and increasingly important industry in Spokane; the city provides specialized care to many patients from the surrounding central regions of the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands and as far north as Nelway (Security Rating: A). The city's health-care needs are served primarily by non-profit Seattle-based DocWagon™ in partnership with the Council’s own Bright-Dawn Health & Services and non-profit Tacoma-based Crashcart, which run the two biggest hospitals, Sacred Lodge Medical Center, and Healing Bear Hospital, respectively. These two hospitals, the 470-bed Healing Spirit's Rehabilitation Institute, 813-bed Central Salish-Shidhe Behavioral Health, and most of Spokane's major health-care facilities, are located on Spokane's Lower-District 2, just south of downtown, in what is known as the “Medical District” of Spokane (Security Rating: AA). As of 2050 Sacred Lodge Hospital had 735 beds, with 117,757 admissions, 319,050 emergency room visits, and 13,478 births annually, and a full-time staff of 200 doctors and dentists and 5,410 registered nurses. Healing Bear Medical Center, the smaller of the two main hospitals, had 1,871 beds as of 2050. Other hospitals in the area include the Spokane Warrior Veterans Affairs Medical Center in the northwest part of town, Bright-Dawn Great Spirit Hospital on the north side, and MultiCare Valley Hospital in the Spokane Valley. One of 20 specialty orthopedic Shriners Clinics in the Council is also located in Spokane. One of Salish-Shidhe’s two state psychiatric hospitals, Central Council Hospital, is located 24 kilometers away in Medical Lake (Security Rating: D).
SPOKANE DISTRICTS
Downtown: This District is home to Spokane's city and county government offices, most notably the Spokane Native Courthouse, built in the style of an Amerind style, featuring natural totem pole carvings and spires. A similarly historic structure houses the Spokane Athletic Club, housed in a Salish-style building designed by famed Spokane architect Joshua Little Crow. The Club sits just across Riverside Avenue from the Great Spirit Hall, seat of the Catholic Church in central Salish-Shidhe, and just across Buffalo Street from the Tahatan Owl-Walks-Without-Sound Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands Courthouse. The recently rebuilt Buffalo Street Bridge, over Spokane Falls, is a notable symbol of the city, long featured in the city logo. Nearby is the modern main branch of the Spokane Council Library, with its expansive views of the Spokane River. Just down Buffalo Street is the Fox Theater, an Amerind-deco movie theater that recently underwent a multimillion-dollar renovation to become the new home of the Spokane Wind Dancers Symphony. At the north end of Riverfront Park is the greatly expanded 104,136 seat Spokane Arena, home to the Spokane Chiefs Hockey Club and Spokane Shock Arena Football Club. In addition to numerous local and regional events, the Arena hosts events such as NABA March Madness, numerous big-name concerts, and in 2037 and 2041, the North American Figure Skating Championships. Across Little Brave Avenue from the Arena is the Flour Mill, a converted structure that once produced flour in abundance but now houses a variety of offices, shops, and restaurants.
Located at a traditional Native American gathering place at the Spokane Falls, American settlement was established in 1871. Most of Spokane's notable buildings, historic landmarks, and high rises are in the Riverside neighborhood (Security Rating: AAA) and the downtown commercial district (Security Rating: AAA), where many of the buildings were rebuilt after the Treaty of Denver in 2018 in the Flathead Salish Revival style by architect Joshua Little Crow. After experiencing periods of decline from Post-dance depopulation, the most recent following the Treaty Expo ‘18, the neighborhood has become revitalized after the completion of the River Park Square Mall in 2040, which has become the most prominent shopping center in the city. The chief attraction of downtown Spokane is Riverfront Park, a 12 square kilometer park (four times the size of New York City’s Central Park!) just north Spokane's downtown core, it was created after the Treaty Expo ‘18 and occupies the same site. The park holds a distinct Kootenai-Salish feel in its appearance and hosts some of Spokane's largest events. The neighborhood is also the center of Spokane's governmental, hospitality, convention, and cultural facilities.
Mass transportation throughout downtown and the Spokane area is provided by the Spokane Transit Authority (STA) which has its STA Plaza central hub in the Downtown District and Amtrak Inc’s Big Sky and Greyhound Inc. operate out of the Spokane Intermodal Center. Spokane's city streets use a grid plan that is oriented to the four cardinal directions with its origin point on the east end of downtown. Moon Avenue splits the city into North and South and Pheasant Street divides the city into East and West. Route 90 runs east–west from the Seattle Metroplex, through downtown Spokane, and eastward through Spokane Valley, Sky Earth Lake, and onward to the Coeur d'Alene District and then Missoula.
Few live in the Downtown District, as it is full mainly of 60-story skyscrapers such as the Neonative Nation Center and others owned by Universal Omnitech, Gaeatronics, Kyuusei Medical, Pacific Cybernetics Incorporated, Saeder-Krupp, Aztechnology, Wuxing, and Eibisu Biomechanics to name a few. Those wealthy few who do live downtown are Amerindian and Human, though there is a sizeable population of Korean and Kootenai Salish elves in the expensive high-rise condos of the downtown core.
And in Riverfront Park, there is a large number of wealthy and powerful Kootenai Salish elven families living in the high-prices luxury riverfront terraced condos.
Riverfront Park: Riverfront Park is a 1,200 square hectares (12 square kilometers) park just north of Downtown Spokane. Also located in Riverside (Security Rating: AAA), the park is the site of some of Spokane's largest events. The park has views of the Spokane Falls, and holds a number of civic attractions, including a Skyride that is a rebuilt canoe that carries visitors across the falls from high above the river gorge, a 5-story Ares-IMAX theater, and a small amusement park (which is converted into an ice-skating rink during the winter months) with numerous rides and concessions. The park is host to a full schedule of family entertainment and events such as the Blooming Path Post-Race Celebration, Festival of Dances, Spokane Dance and Music Festival, Archery in the Park, Restaurant Fair, Pow Wow, First Night Spokane, plus many outdoor concerts and other community activities. The Park also includes a hand-carved carousel which still operates in Riverfront Park, where riders can participate in an old-time ring toss. The carousel continues to offer a free ride to the rider who grabs the brass ring. Riverfront Park extends to the north bank of the river where the North Bank Park features an ice age floods themed playground, rezball courts, the Hunt and Capture Park, and a climbing boulder as well as the Hawk Thunder Street Promenade which showcases ample views of the Spokane falls and other water features (some man-made) of the Spokane River.
Here, one will find environmentally melded campuses to the Spokane Council Courthouse, Embassy, several council office buildings, public schools, trade schools, and city colleges wit their libraries, theaters, museums, and school auditoriums.
Downtown Core (Security Rating: AAA): The Downtown Core is the heart of Spokane and is generally considered to be the several block vicinity surrounding Spokane Council Hall, River Park Square, the STA Plaza, and the Spirit Warrior Hotel. A majority of Spokane's high-rise buildings are located in this core area. Spokane's skywalk system also overlays the street grid and street life within the core, linking the entirety of the Downtown blocks together, making it among the largest skywalk systems in North America. It is used for quick pedestrian travel across streets and traffic in cold and inclement weather and retail space as well. Skywalk connections to parking garages such as The Meadows most notably make parking and traveling to downtown buildings several blocks away faster. All skywalks are protected with advance polymer armored glass tempered with the latest in sunlight refraction technology.
This is where you will find the luxury Universal Omnitech corporate housing enclaves, libraries, theaters, museums, and the Spokane Civic Center, major Universal Omnitech corporate office buildings and headquarters pervade the Downtown District.
Spirit Warrior District (Security Rating: AAA): Located south and west of the Downtown Core, the Spirit Warrior District hosts many Amerind concerts, plays, galleries, and other shows. This area is home to luxury hotels, live entertainment venues, and art galleries. These events are hosted in a variety of venues including the Fox Theater, The Dancing Girl Theater, and the Knitting Factory.
This arts and entertainment district has a number of large historic buildings. Many of these buildings have been renovated, and capture Spokane's “Age of Elegance” at the turn of the 20th century. More recently, this area has become a hub for breweries. There are multiple tasting rooms between Fortune and Cedar Street along First and Second Avenue, making it a popular destination for brewery tours.
This District is home to wealthy Kootenai Salish and Makah humans.
What one will find here are opulent homes and townhouses in Amerind design, large banks, open-air markets for shamanic foci and fetishes, Amerind food, and home decorations, executive body shops as well as large and luxurious expensive Amerind restaurants, Amerind-style boutiques, salons, and clothing stores, high-end auto dealerships, weapons stores, magic shops, and pawn shops that are all found at the ground levels of Gaeatronics corporate office buildings and headquarters.
Convention Center District (Security Rating: AA-B): The Convention Center District is situated to the east of the Downtown Core and is anchored by the Spokane Convention Center and First Tribal Center for the Arts. Its location is directly adjacent to Riverfront Park; an advantage that has been embraced through careful planning and native architectural design of buildings in the district which allows the buildings to interface with the park, the river, and recreational trails (including the Council Trail) that run along it. The district was born out of the Treaty Expo ‘18, which developed the original structure that ultimately became the First Nations Center for the Arts and the Spokane Convention Center. The convention center has been expanded several times since its original construction, stretching the bounds of the district farther east, where it ties into the University District.
>>>>>[Most of this area gets a B as it has become a flashpoint between Amerinds and non-Amerinds living and working in the neighboring Districts. Clashes with rowdy crowds before, during, and after live performances have become commonplace.]<<<<<
–SPD (05:05:00/10-12-50)
Much of the other development around the Convention Center District stems from the Spokane Convention Center and the First Nations Center for the Arts, including restaurants, retail, and hotels. Spokane's largest and tallest hotels, including the TripleTree, Spirit Warrior Grand, and Red Lion Hotel at the Park are located in or immediately adjacent to the Convention Center District. The business types located around the Convention Center District provide a common overlap with businesses supporting the adjacent University District as well, helping to alleviate some of the “urban dead zones” that are all too commonly created when the convention centers - particularly large ones in major cities much larger than Spokane - are not in use.
>>>>>[The Spokane Convention Center and the First Nations Center for the Arts, including restaurants, retail, and hotels often hire shadowrunners who know how to be discrete and dress the part to protect their properties and guests from any and all possible dangers when live venues are scheduled at the Convention Center.]<<<<<
–Smiley (15:27:53/02-01-50)
One of the most cosmopolitan areas of Spokane, Italian, Chinese Manchurian, and Aztlaner restaurants and shops can be found right next to Kootenai Salish restaurants and shops.
Also, you’ll find here upper-class brownstones, duplexes, and multiplex apartments, 5-20 story upscale apartment buildings, co-ops, and condos as well as those under construction, jewelry stores and high-class stores, private schools and colleges, large and luxurious restaurants, chic open-air markets in parking lots on weekends in the better areas.
Also here are middle-class 5-20 story upscale apartment buildings, co-ops, and condos, Proteus AG corporate warehouses, supply depots, and shipping centers, small quaint ethnic restaurants surround the Riverfront Medical District Campus which has ample parking facilities.
Lastly, there are also the Council welfare and DMV offices, mobile home parks for Anglos, and middle class Proteus AG corporate housing enclaves and gated communities for Amerinds, middle class hotels, motels, and coffin hotels, and public transit bus stops surrounded by small middle class ethnic fast-food restaurants. Open-air markets and black market bazaars fill in the area parks on the weekends.
North Bank (Security Rating: AAA): The North Bank area is a wealthy Salish Kootenai Human district located to the north of the Spokane River and Riverfront Park. It is home to a variety of uses including civic, residential, shopping, dining, and lodging. All luxury class and nearly 100% Amerind. Destinations include the Spokane Arena, The Podium, Spokane Civic Theater, and the Flour Mill. A number of businesses based on the North Bank are in the health, banking, hotel, and real estate corporations.
Here, one finds upper class large restaurants, grocery stores, electronics, and media stores, as well as jewelry and high class stores and the ground floors of Aztechnology corporate labs and research facilities, as well as industrial complexes. There are also council courthouse, office buildings and embassies, and luxury 5-20 story upscale apartment buildings, co-ops, and condos to house their employees. Here found are also libraries, museums, theaters, and civic centers.
DISTRICT 1 (North and Northeast) (Security Rating: C through Z, rare: A): The north and northeast sides of Spokane extend roughly 204 kilometers north from Downtown Spokane where it descends a great deal into the slums of the Modoc area. It is bounded on the west by Pheasant St., the city's north–south meridian, and is bounded on the south by Route 90. District 1 is mostly lower-class Anglo metahuman residential but contains several large low-rent retail districts as well that hug the boundaries of both Kootenai and White Eagle Universities. Retail centers such as the Northtown Mall and Northpointe Plaza lie along Pheasant Street.
>>>>>[Syndicates and gangs rule the turf here, even in the better parts. THAT’S where the Dons, Oyabun, Lodge Masters, the leaders of the Islamic Crime Cartels and the Vory, the Comanche mafia and the Koshari live.
If you get called there, either some big rollers are tapping you to do wet work or you ain’t walkin’ back out, chummer!]<<<<<
–Yoshi (05:38:30/08-06-50)
Surrounding the Northtown Mall and Northpointe Plaza on Pheasant Street, there are Pacific Prosperity Group corporate warehouses, supply depots, and shipping centers as well as social services offices nest to the Council post offices and office buildings. There are also middle-class hotels and motels, and large middle-class restaurants for the budget conscious.
However, in the poor business district areas of District 1, there are collections of competing small-fast food, large, and mid-sized no frills restaurants on the ground floors of power plants, water works, and utility service foundries. Here also there are clusters of mobile homes surrounding abandoned tenements and squats.
In the very poor residential areas, there are also cheap liquor stores, lower-class Gaeatronics corporate housing enclaves. Surrounding these enclaves are streetdoc black clinics, fast food restaurants and cheap small restaurants that are also gathered at the bases of the power plants, water works, and utility service foundries. Shabby public bus stops are found in various places here, mostly near the no frills grocery stores, and cheap electronics and media stores.
In the abandoned zones, there remain cheap mid-sized restaurants surrounded by tent cities with food carts gathered around them. Surrounding this area are reclaimed wilderness areas where lurk many toxic paranormal animals.
In the anarchy zones, there are the husks of old industrial complexes, as well as abandoned, condemned, and burned-out Gaeatronics corporate buildings. There are also some shabby social services offices and cheap Gaeatronics corporate housing enclaves that house the employees who work there.
>>>>>[Northtown Mall is the home base of the local Koshari underworld crime syndicate. Northpointe Plaza is the local home base for the notorious elven go-gang known as The Ancients.]<<<<<
–EyeSpi (03:24:54/05-13-50)
>>>>>[This reminds me of Seattle’s Crime Mall in The Barrens, except here it’s all controlled by either the elf gang or the Pueblo crime syndicate. Whatever you want: drugs, dreamchips, rare paranormals, weapons and armor, cyberware installations, even identity changes and/or erasures… you can find it all at either of these two malls.]<<<<<
–Lake-with-Moon (14:15:35/02-04-50)
>>>>>[Not all the shops here are illegals or deal with the crime syndicates and gangs. The majority of shops and stores here are legit. The anchors here are Lordstrung’s, Bloomies, and Lacy’s for Northtown, and Theimann-Markels and Ford & Stitcher for Northpointe Plaza.
Both have beautiful enormous food courts that serve a wide variety of foods, too!]<<<<<
Connie Connoisseur (06:49:58/03-03-50)
Though District 1 is fairly diverse culturally and racially, the Vietnamese seem to be the largest minority. They are most dominant in the poor business district of Little Wolf (Security Rating: C), the bad industrial area and elf neighborhood of Nevada Heights (Security Rating: B), the dwarven ghetto and abandoned zones of Town and Country (Security Rating: E), the Ork ghetto and anarchy zones of Green Bluff (Security Rating: Z), and the suburban-style middle class human neighborhood of Deer Park (Security Rating: A).
>>>>>[The Yakuza, Vietnamese Army, the Triads, and the Vory all compete in the smuggling racket that rolls through town from the Seattle Metroplex to the west and from Missoula to the east. Show them that you got a beef with the Cascade Orks and you might live.]<<<<<
– Roadrunner (20:38:20/10-20-50)
>>>>>[Kootenai University takes up a lot of real estate on this side of town. It’s a haven of organized tribal chaos in a sea of perilous underworld gang chaos. Professors, University Admin-Things, Students, drek, even the Facilities Staff, are more than likely to have strong connections with any of the above syndicates. But be careful what you mention and to whom you mention it. Some might be connected to the Salish-Shidhe Rangers or worse, a Judiciary Council. Know to whom you are speaking before you approach.]<<<<<
–ConSpear-I-C (00:57:29/02-17-51)
>>>>>[The Yakuza, Vietnamese Army, the Triads, and the Vory may be strong here, but the Chieftain of the Mountain is the Koshari Syndicate centered in Albuquerque, Phoenix, and the Pueblo Sector of the Denver FRFZ. Currently it's biggest source of income is the smuggling and distribution of BADs. It's also into protection rackets, drugs, BTLs, CalHot chips, illegal gambling, weapons smuggling, prostitution, blackmail rackets, and talislegging along Route 90. They have muscle and chrome on par with other orgs on a local level but lack the widespread infrastructure of the Mafia. They also employ a 'lot' of shamans, mostly urban and trickster totems. Raccoon, Rat, a couple of Polecat shamans. These are the assassins used for troublesome contracts.]<<<<<
–Featherbone (09:23:09/10-30-50)
BLACKHORSE MEDICAL DISTRICT
Security Rating: AAA
This is an upper-class business neighborhood located within District 1 that is centered on medicine, cybertech, shamanic biotech and healing clinics. It covers the northeastern section of the city, and the district is bounded by WildWind Avenue to the north, Market Street to the east, Illinois Avenue and the Spokane River to the south, and Tokala Street and Big Lodge Street to the west.
At the ground floors of the sprawling hospitals and clinics are found several upscale Amerind restaurants, representing several different Native American Nations and tribes. There are always waiting lists, even for lunches.
It is located to the southeast of the Kindling Yards neighborhood and is secured by a wall manned by paranormal animals, namely barghests, hellhounds, cockatrices, chimeras, gabriel hounds, and shadowhounds, as well as a number of hunter-spotter drones to keep the moneyed Amerind employees and residents of the BlackHorse Medical District and its clients safe from the low class Anglo squatters of Kindling Yards.
The intersection of Council Avenue and Crestline Road, two arterials that meet near the center of the neighborhood, is 6.8 kilometers by road from Council Hall in Downtown. WildWind Avenue, a major arterial on the north side of town, is the district’s northern border. Market and Street-of-Sky-Spirits, also major arterials on the north side of town, delimit the eastern border. To the south the border is irregular, following North Foothills Drive to Big Lodge Street, Illinois Avenue to Crestline Street, the Spokane River to Silver-Dawn Street and then back along Illinois Avenue to Market Street. The western border runs down Tokala Street to EarthChild Avenue and Big Lodge Street to Illinois Avenue.
As of 2050, the population of BlackHorse was 15,000. The median household income is 40,095.40¥.
Of the residents and employees, 85.8% were born in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands, and half of the residents are Amerindian. Many of whom are shamans following Snake, Bear, Bull, Dove, Elk, Horse, Lizard, Stag, Stream, Sun, Phoenix Totems. This Kootenai Salish neighborhood is mixed, having a sizeable minority of African American immigrants from the United Canadian and American States, the California Free State, and the Confederated American States, specifically the sprawls of Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, Atlanta, St. Louis, FDC, Detroit, and NYC. Many are Dove, Deer, Antelope, and Python Shamans who are instrumental in healing the minds and bodies of crime victims from Kindling Yards. Many others, however, serve in the defense of the medical district. These generally follow the Totems of Hyena, Leopard, Crocodile, Cheetah, and Lion. Lion Shamans tend to lead strike teams.
Chief Garry Park (Security Rating: A): This neighborhood is located immediately south of the Spokane River. It is named for Kootenai Chief Garry Kills-In-Woods and a park that has taken his name. The neighborhood was first established in 2018 but it wasn't until 2038 that it was officially named for Chief Garry when his contribution, and ultimate sacrifice, to the Great Ghost Dance became common knowledge.
At the center, there is the big Chief Garry Park. Surrounding this park, there are Universal Omnitech corporate labs and research facilities, parks services offices, fire and police stations, and middle-class houses and townhomes that are home to over 70,000 people, largely non-Amerind blacks from the UCAS, the CAS, and the California Free State. They are employees of Universal Omnitech or the Spokane Parks Department. Others are police or firemen.
The neighborhood is bounded on the west and north by the Spokane River. The southern border runs along TwinTimber Avenue to HawkSpirit Street, at which point it drops a few blocks to the south to follow railroad tracks east to Friendship Road. From Friendship, the boundary zigzags to the northeast along the edge of Friendship Field and delimits the municipal boundary of the City of Spokane where it meets the District of Spokane Valley (Security Rating: A).
It is an elongated neighborhood that extends more than 6.5 kilometers from the TwinTimber Avenue Bridge in the neighborhood's far southwestern corner to the city limits in the northeast. The bulk of the residential area of the neighborhood centers on Chief Garry Park itself on the west side. The Spokane Community College campus is located at the intersection of Gray Wolf and Scout and stretches north to the river. The northeastern half of the neighborhood is dominated by Friendship Field.
An exclave of the neighborhood exists at Upriver Park to the north of and across the river from Friendship Field. The park is part of the City of Spokane but surrounded on the north side of the river by unincorporated Spokane Tribal District.
As of 2050 the population of Chief Garry Park was 72,123. 92% of residents are immigrants from the United Canadian and American States, the California Free State, and the Confederated American States. Of the few foreign born residents, they tend to be from Vietnam at 35%, Aztlan at 16%, from Turkey at 10%, and 8% are from Russia.
Kindling Yards (Security Rating: C): Located along the southern edge of the West Central neighborhood just across the Spokane River from Downtown Spokane is Kindling Yards. Once an upscale neighborhood, this area is now a run-down and crowded Anglo urbanist community. The grand Amerind-styled homes have all been subdivided into studio, 1-bedroom, 2-bedroom, and 3-bedroom apartments. Some may even lack plumbing. Though not officially within the boundaries of Downtown or Riverside, Kindling Yards plays a vital role in the diversified culture and future of the downtown core by increasing the urban residential population in the immediate vicinity of it.
>>>>>[Bulldrek! The Kindling Yards is a slum where the Amerinds cram all the Anglos and Metahumans they hate and who work menial jobs for the downtown corps!]<<<<<
–Metallic Marauder (04:57:05/01-22-50)
The neighborhood is also one of the largest urban infill development projects in the city's history and has reclaimed a brownfield formerly occupied by rail yards. The site of Kindling Yards used to be the main entry point of the railroad into Downtown Spokane before alterations to the downtown area in preparations for the Treaty Expo ‘18 relocated the railroads south of the Spokane River. The 446-hectare (4.5 square kilometers) site sat vacant from that point on for several years until the Treaty of Denver in 2018 and many non-Amerinds who’ve lived in the Spokane area for generations scored a victory with a right to remain. They, however, were moved into this District. The new city government began a brownfield cleanup to prepare for the groundbreaking of the required housing complexes. The cleanup took approximately one year and removed over 223,000 tons of contaminated soil from the site.
>>>>>[Nobody who cares about their health would set foot in any of those government housing complexes. This explains the proliferation of mobile homes here, some are stacked atop others with rickety ladders serving as stairs to the polluted earth.]<<<<<
–Shiner (02:16:39/02-19-50)
>>>>>[They did a real sloppy job cleaning this place up. There’s still enough contaminated soil here for the area to qualify as a Toxic Zone. At least one coven of toxic shamans here within the crowds, led by some slitch goes by the name Black Makaw. Don’t know what totem she follows, but whatever it is, her mojo’s powerful and hungry!]<<<<<
–Seven-toed Slim (05:36:05/12-03-50)
The initial proposal for Kindling Yards called for 25,100 residences and 92,900 square meters of commercial space, worth up to 230,000,000 nuyen. The development broke ground in 2028, however, the impending Computer Crash of 2029 bankrupted the project's developer before any buildings were constructed. The now cleaned-up site continued to sit vacant for another few years until a Spokane-based developer, Greenstone Corp., purchased the site and began construction in 2030. In response to the economic conditions at the time, to meet the deadline or lose all funding, production was sped up and corners were cut. Several residents were made homeless because of the Crash and needed a place to live.
In order to accommodate so many new needs and save face, the quality of the original plans for the development were secretly scaled back; the proposed density, residential unit count, and commercial square footage were all increased to approximately one-and-one-half of the original scope. However, the scaled-up plans did have its advantages; the development was more likely to be successful, the more land would be available for more prefab homes, and the increased density would ease the population burden on existing fabric of the adjacent West Central neighborhood to the north. Construction of the development was completed by 2035.
Designed on new urbanist principles, the plan and makeup of the neighborhood was meant to emphasize mixed-use development, diversity of densities and housing types, open space, and walkability. Much of the neighborhood was intended to consist of multi-family structures of townhomes, condominiums, and apartments – as well as single-family detached homes, community gardens, free-standing commercial buildings, and mixed-use buildings (with ground-floor retail and apartment units above). Green and recreational space was also intended; the community was supposed to include parks, sidewalks, and plazas and also a long-awaited infill section of the Council Trail, extending it from Downtown through the entire 11 square kilometer site along the northern banks of the Spokane River Gorge.
>>>>>[But we all know where the road lined with good intentions take you. Neh? More, Kindling Yards resembles a scaled-down version of Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City. This impoverished District of Spokane is where much of the city’s illicit dealings take place (BTL dealing, gun running, black markets, organlegging and talislegging, prostitution and gambling, as well as underground Urban Brawl matches to name a few).
This little piece of hell on earth is made up of crumbling prefab homes and apartment blocks stacked together like sardines. The place is filthy, over half the residents are addicted to BTLs, few buildings here have plumbing, and clean water is nonexistent. Disease is a grave concern here.]<<<<<
–Smiling Bandit (15:49:39/01-03-50)
>>>>>[Most of the cities Anglos live here and those few who are employed work menial jobs in some of the worst areas of District 2 where the factories and power plants are found.]<<<<<
–Fast Jack (09:06:10/08-26-50)
Officially a Wage Slave zone, Kindling Yards is home to young UCASer, CFSer, CASer Black, Filipino, Japanese and Kootenai Salish Humans and Elves just starting out in life and others who’ve not been able to amass much wealth, financially struggling retirees, squatters and chipheads. Their finances simply could not keep up with the rising real estate prices, so this is where they ended up.
Here are found lower-class brownstones, duplexes, and multiplex apartments, abandoned tenements and squats, cheap 5-20 story upscale apartment buildings, co-ops, and condos, cheap fast food/small restaurants, no frills grocery stores and cheap electronics and media stores, closed businesses, power plants, water works, and utility services.
KindlingYards (Security Rating: C): Surrounding The Yards is the pan-Asian Yakuza-, Seoulpa Ring-, and Triad-controlled human elvish lower class community known as the Kindling Yards, or colloquially, The Killing Yards. It is located in the northeastern corner of the city of Spokane. It is bounded on the north and east by the city limits, with Flintfire Avenue delineating most of the northern border. The eastern border runs along HawkSpirit Street north of WildWind Avenue, south of WildWind it runs about 0.8 kilometers to the east of HawkSpirit. Crestline Street serves as the western border north of WildWind. South of WildWind, the western border runs about 0.8 kilometers east of Crestline, along the Market/Haven District. WildWind serves as the southern border from Crestline to Haven, and Great Wolf serves as the southern border east of Haven.
The Killing Yards is a very bad industrial area that surrounds gun, auto, magic, and pawn shops, sub-par public schools, trade schools, and Spokane-Kindling City College, several working-class crumbling brownstones, duplexes, and multiplex apartments with small restaurants and fast-food joints on their ground floors.
Kindling Yards proper is technically part of a grouping of neighborhoods, along with the adjacent BlackHorse (Security Rating: AAA) and Wildhawk (Security Rating: A) neighborhoods, a largely suburban-style middle class area officially known as Greater Kindling Yards.
In the WIldhalk section of the Kindling Yards, there are Pacific Cybernetics Incorporated corporate industrial complexes and factories surrounded by mobile homes that house their workers. On the weekends, open-air markets fill the parking lots of the public schools, trade schools, and even that of Spokane BlackHorse City College. Throughout this area, there are small Soul Food restaurants and middle-class Filipino fast food joints. Several bars and night clubs cater to the college crowd who live with their families at the middle class brownstones, duplexes and multiplex apartments.
In BlackHorse, a largely upper-class business district, is known for its prestigious banks as well as its Baptist churches and shamanic lodges, high quality and well-funded public schools, trade schools and most notably for the prestigious Spokane BlackHorse City College where many residents have gotten their much coveted degrees in corporate finance.
>>>>>[This has been a point of contention for a very long time. The affluent Amerind residents of BlackHorse and Windhawk would prefer to not be associated in any way to the hive of unwashed pinkskin squatters in The Yards.]<<<<<
–Connie Connoisseur (05:23:14/10-31-50)
>>>>>[Connie overstates this. The Yard ain’t that bad, chica! And we ain’t no PINKSKINS. We’re Borinqueños! ¡APRENDALO! We are hard-working, honest SINers who provide as best we can for our families here in our little Barrio. Do not disrespect us again.]<<<<<
– Hombrehojalato (05:27:05/10-31-50)
Physical Geography
Most of the neighborhood is relatively flat, ranging in elevation from 2,000 feet to 622 meters, similar to areas in the city lying to the west. In the southeast corner of Kindling Yards, however, the terrain begins to climb up the slopes of the upper-middle-class business district of Bison Hill (Security Rating: AA). The crest of the hill lies just beyond Kindling Yards, at an elevation of 790 meters. 0.8 kilometers to the north of Bison Hill is Little Bald Bear, which rises to an even higher 812 meters, but its slopes flatten out before reaching into Kindling Yards proper.
In Bison Hill, large fancy restaurants mingle with expensive small and mid-sized restaurants. Some are even found inside upscale grocery stores. Electronics and media stores, parks, libraries, theaters, surround the Bison Hill Civic Center. Throughout Bison Hill, there are upper-middle-class homes and townhomes, public bus stops.
Human Geography
Kindling Yards is home to a diverse mix of land uses, including residential, commercial and industrial zones as well as open spaces and parkland. In the northeast there are areas of both heavy and light industrial zones. Residential single family zones dominate in the northwest and southeast areas of the neighborhood. Commercial and retail districts line Market Street and the Market/Haven District, with the suburban-style upper-middle-class Kindling Yards Corridor neighborhood (Security Rating: AA) center being located in the former. The Spokane Parks Department, through Gaeatronics Corporation, manages seven properties in the neighborhood, six neighborhood parks and the Soaring Eagle Stickball field. Of the six parks, only Happy Chief Park in the north is larger than one square block.
Also found here are Gaeatronics corporate office buildings and headquarters, well-run public transit bus stops, upper middle class houses, townhomes, and gated communities with more under construction for Gaeatronics employees. There are also libraries, theaters, museums and the Kindling Yards Civic Center. There are many upscale huckleberry wine shops.
A fifty-two square block-wide swath of Kindling Yards running through the center of the neighborhood north to south is overcrowded with mobile homes and decaying government-built prefab homes around the former site of the Great Northern rail yard. There yard is gone, though active railroads remain, and the land is heavily polluted with lead and heavy metals. TripleTree Commons, another largely vacant area exists in the far southeast corner of Kindling Yards, east of Soaring Eagle Stickball field, is a condemned 31-story hotel building that has been taken over by gangs, metahuman squatters and pinkskin wageslaves, joygirls and joyboys, and chipheads. It can be seen rising along the slopes of Bison Hill.
Large, ugly walls surround these blocks, cutting them off from the more affluent surrounding neighborhoods and Districts. The walls are well defended by spirits, paranormal animals, and hunter-spotter drones.
Demographics
As of 2050, officials guestimate that there were 77,000 residents in the neighborhood, though the total number could easily be twice or three times this as an accurate count within the center of Kindling Yards is nearly impossible to ascertain.
94% of residents were born in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands, of those, 91% are pinkskins. Of those pinkskins who weren't born in the Council, most are ethnic Borinqueños. Of the rest, 36% are from Ukraine, 15% from the Marshall Islands, 11% from Vietnam, and 10% from Russia.
The race and ethnicity of Kindling Yards in 2050 was 8% white, 83% Latino/a, 9% Amerind, 3% Asian, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, and 3% Black or African American.
The Yard (Security Rating: B): This is a predominantly human area, Lone Star rates the Yard at Security Rating B. It is known for its large Borinqueno immigrant population from the Caribbean League, the Confederated American States, and the United Canadian and American States (mostly ChicagoSprawl and the New York MegaSprawl).
The Yeard is a sleepy bedroom community with middle class hotels and motels, public transit bus stops, small restaurants and fast-food joints, well-kept middle-class mobile homes, streetdoc black clinics, public schools, trade schools, and city colleges.
Little Wolf (Security Rating: C): Little Wolf is a poor residential area, mostly consisting of frat houses and sorority houses that are little more than prefab homes and squatter shacks, and abandoned tenements and squats located immediately northeast of the Downtown District and is home to Kootenai University. The Spokane River runs along its eastern and southern edge. Due to its proximity to the Downtown District, Little Wolf is home to some of the oldest and densest areas in the city. It is known for its tree-lined streets, historic Amerindian buildings and population of college students. In addition to numerous individual properties, there are two historic districts listed on the Council Register of Historic Places located within Little Wolf: The DarkWolf Avenue Warehouse Historic District and The Avenue of Trails Historic District.
Here, there are several cheap small and mid-sized restaurants that cater to college students whose parents work long hours for low wages at the many Wuxing corporate factories and industrial complexes. Some college students choose to augment themselves for their own safety or for bravado reasons at the area streetdoc black clinics. Slightly better off residents work at the Wuxing corporate labs and research facilities here, while they live in their prefab homes. Food carts are ubiquitous here and do a lot of business with the frat crowd.
Little Wolf is one of the central neighborhoods in Spokane, being located immediately adjacent to downtown and the rest of the Downtown District. The Spokane River flows past Little Wolf, first along the eastern edge of the neighborhood before turning to the west and providing the southern boundary. A stretch of Spokane Falls Boulevard and TwinTimber Avenue act as the southern border of the neighborhood as well. Pheasant Street, which carries Route 2 and serves as a major north-south thoroughfare in the city, serves as the western boundary. EarthChild Avenue is the northern limit, from Pheasant to Big Lodge Street, though Illinois Avenue serves as that boundary from Big Lodge to Crestline Street.
The Spokane River Council Trail passes through Little Wolf.
Avenue of Trails passes through Little Wolf as a tree-lined boulevard from Pheasant Street on the west all the way to Scout Park on the east side of the neighborhood. Mission, along with Spokane Falls Boulevard, Sharp Spear Avenue, Day Star Avenue and North Foothills Drive, are east-to-west arterials in Little Wolf. The Pheasant and Ruby Street District on the west edge of the neighborhood, and Horsehawk Street passing through the heart of Little Wolf, serve as arterials for north-to-south travel. Pedestrian crossings of the Spokane River are located at Pheasant, the Spokane River Council Trail, Spokane Falls Boulevard, TwinTimber Avenue, Iron Bridge and Avenue of Trails.
>>>>>[The City Council is fighting a losing battle in keeping this place up. The University is both a boon and a bane to this District; it’s a boon because the University brings in the nuyen each semester as students go to the area shops, restaurants, and especially the bars and night clubs. But, it is a bane in that each time there is a game or a celebration, the District is nearly always trashed from riots, vandalism, looting, assaults, and even a good dose of manslaughter.]<<<<<
–Anonymous (23:37:40/10-15-50)
>>>>>[The University is more than embarrassed. In fact, according to tribal law, the officials must make a recompense to all the affected businesses and residents in the district, on top of facing a public shaming. They’d rather not do that. Instead, they are hiring competent shadowrunners that can blend in well. The goal is to identify the culprits of these riots and crimes and out them.]<<<<<
–Doc-U-Dub (06:33:05/06-28-51)
Higher education dominates the geography of the southern half of Little Wolf. The campus of Kootenai University stretches from the Spokane River on the south to Sharp on the north and Ruby on the west to Horsehawk on the east. A handful of campus buildings are located north of Sharp and east of Horsehawk. Kootenai's campus forms the northern half of University District, which extends south of Little Wolf to the Spokane campuses of Salish-Shidhe Council Chieftains University and Central Salish-Shidhe University.
To the north and east of Kootenai's campus lie the tree-lined, residential sections of the lower-middle class Little Wolf neighborhood. The historic character fades as you reach the northern edge of the neighborhood, however, and residential areas transition into low-end commercial and light-industrial zones.
Horsehawk Street serves as the neighborhood's main commercial and retail district. Zoned as part of Spokane's “centers and corridors” plan, higher density buildings are allowed on Horsehawk than elsewhere in the neighborhood. The stretch of Horsehawk nearest Kootenai's campus is home to most of the neighborhood’s bars and restaurants, giving the area a college town kind of atmosphere. Jaya & Dakotah's, a landmark Spokane bar in continuous operation since the end of prohibition, is located at Horsehawk and Sharp. The bar has many ties to the Kootenai tribe and is frequently mentioned during tridcasts of Kootenai University rezball games.
The terrain is mostly flat, though the northernmost edge of the neighborhood lies on a relatively steep incline leading up to the affluent upper-middle class and aptly named North Hill residential neighborhood (Security Rating: AA).
In North Hill, there are Eibisu Biomechanics corporate housing enclaves with their prestigious corporate labs and research facilities next to their corporate industrial complexes, and training facilities and schools, and office buildings and headquarters. The corporation is financing the construction of more luxury Eibisu corporate housing. There are also many large upscale restaurants, grocery stores, electronics stores and media stores, post offices and city and council office buildings in North Hill, as well as well-funded public schools, trade schools and the elite North Hill Council College.
As of 2050, 96,600 people lived in Little Wolf. 92% of residents were born in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands. Vietnamese and Pakistani humans form a sizeable minority here, whether they were born in the Council Lands or not. Of those who were not, 32% were from Aztlan and 15% from Ukraine.
Little Wolf Heights (Security Rating: E): This part of Little Wolf qualifies as a slum. Over 170,300 squatters, chipheads, and gangers make their “home” here in the abandoned structures left by the previous occupants over twenty years ago.
Though there’s no real way to tell, on-the-ground inside sources have reported the entire neighborhood seems to be SINless orks of African American, and of Borinqueño heritage. Currently, the gang Black Wolves controls Little Wolf Heights.
There’s a Pacific Cybernetics corporate housing enclave near some Pacific Cybernetics corporate factories and cheap small restaurants and fast food joints. In the residential slums, black market street dealers have set up shop in the abandoned, condemned, and burned-out buildings. Seedy bars and night clubs and black market bazaars are also found here. On the edges there are toxic zones, reclaimed wilderness areas and empty lots.
>>>>>[Word has it the Black Wolves are either a pack of loup garous or wolf shapeshifters that hold sway over all the little, but no less deadly, street gangs here. They move around a lot, but they seem to always go back to the old Franklin School building.]<<<<<
–Tracker (00:15:08/09-13-50)
Minnehaha (Security Rating: D): This very poor blighted and hopeless Aztlaner ork residential neighborhood is in the northeastern portion of the city. The Spokane River flows along the southern edge of the neighborhood, from which the terrain rises along the slopes of Bison Hill to the northeast. It is a primarily a lower class residential neighborhood, with its main commercial district on EarthChild Street shared with the adjacent neighborhoods of BlackHorse and Kindling Yards. Minnehaha Park is located here, though the nearby Minnehaha Rocks are just beyond the neighborhood's bounds. Both are a haven for squatter camps and gangs selling drugs and BTL chips.
Located 8 kilometers by road from Spokane Council Hall in Downtown Spokane, Minnehaha is in the northeastern part of the city in District 1.
Minnehaha Park, the neighborhood's largest, is located in the northeast on the slopes leading up to Bison Hill. It covers 16 hectares and is a home to squatters and drug pushers.
Great Wolf Avenue separates Minnehaha from Kindling Yards, to the north. BlackHorse lies to the west, beyond Market Street, Illinois Avenue and Silver-Dawn Street. The Spokane River forms the border with Chief Garry Park to the south. The city limits run along HawkSpirit Street in the east.
As of 2050, 43,212 Aztlaner orks live in Minnehaha. 13% of these orks were born outside the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands.
Here, there are city office buildings and post offices with stuffer shacks and automated vending machine stores, gas/recharge stations on their ground floors. Elsewhere, streedoc black clinics, small cheap restaurants and fast-food joints, sleazy bars and night clubs are found on nearly every block.
Nevada Heights (Security Rating: B): This elvish neighborhood is located on the north-northeast side of the city. Its southern border is atop a bluff that runs east–west across the north side of the city, which gives the neighborhood its name. Nevada Street, a major north–south arterial, runs through the neighborhood. The neighborhood is largely middle-class residential, but also home to large retail districts, medical facilities, schools and parks. Being surrounded by the city of Spokane on all sides, the neighborhood is well integrated into the urban area despite its suburban and woodsy aesthetic.
The rectangular neighborhood is bounded by Pheasant Street to the east, the city's main north–south thoroughfare, Flintfire Avenue on the north, a major east–west thoroughfare across the north side, Tokala Street on the east and EarthChild Avenue on the south. The southern border runs along a hillside that climbs between 12 and 15 meters from the lower elevations to the south. Beyond the hillside, however, Nevada Heights' terrain is quite flat, though it rises slightly to the north.
Most of the neighborhood is zoned as single family residential, but it is also home to some important commercial and retail districts. The entire length of Pheasant Street and Flintfire Avenue through Nevada Lingerwood are zoned for commercial and retail uses. There are four neighborhood retail zones along Nevada Street at Bridgeport, Council, WildWind and Rowan Avenues.
NorthTown Mall, an indoor shopping mall, takes up 240 square blocks at Pheasant and WildWind. Fifteen blocks to the north, at Pheasant and Rowan, is another 240 square block area home to a large strip mall along Pheasant and the Bright-Dawn Great Spirit Hospital campus in the fifteen blocks on the east. These are the only notable deviations from the city's street grid in the neighborhood.
This is classified as a bad industrial area with Saeder-Krupp corporate factories, lower-middle class houses and townhomes, black market bazaars, and cheap no frills mid-sized restaurants.
As of 2050, there were 131,752 residents in the neighborhood.
>>>>>[Wait. Two malls covering 240 square blocks?! Each?! That’s practically the whole neighborhood!]<<<<<
–LittleBear (09:48:50/11-23-50)
>>>>>[Apparently you’ve never been to a Sprawl, chummer. These are vertical malls. This means the square blocks aren’t just measured on a horizontal plane. You have to include the vertical.]<<<<<
– Tokumei (06:57:50/05-19-51)
>>>>>[Yes Tokumei. Both of these malls rises roughly thirty stories.]<<<<<
–Gray Dog (20:38:00/10-03-51)
Shiloh Hills (Security Rating: C): This working class Aztlaner dwarf neighborhood is located on the far northeastern side of the city, this is home to lower-middle class residential, commercial and industrial districts as well as multiple regionally important transportation corridors such as the Pheasant Street “Y”.
The major employer in Shiloh Hills is Gaeatronics.
As of 2050, there were 9,608 residents in the neighborhood. All the buildings and accommodations are sized for the shorter metahumans.
Classified as a very bad industrial area, Shiloh Hills is known for its cheap prefab homes and squatter shacks, sketchy black market bazaars around the cheap large restaurants and underfunded and overcrowded public schools, trade schools, especially the infamous Shiloh Hills Community College. Those who live here work at the industrial complexes, and a few live in the abandoned tenements and squats.
Wildhawk (Security Rating: A): Wildhawk is a rectangular Filipino and Khalistani immigrant neighborhood bordered by Flintfire Avenue on the north, Crestline Street on the east, WildWind Avenue on the south and Tokala Street on the west. It borders the Kindling Yards neighborhood to the east, the BlackHorse neighborhood to the south, Nevada Heights in the west and Shiloh Hills in the north. It is six city blocks across east–west but shown as four blocks in the north and six in the south. There is little separating Wildhawk from Nevada Heights and Kindling Yards except Wildhawk has a higher standard of living than The Kindling Yards. Major arterials in Flintfire and WildWind Avenues separate the neighborhood from Shiloh Hills to the north and BlackHorse to the south, but lesser streets form the eastern and western boundaries. Wildhawk's boundaries outside of those two streets are not obvious on the ground. Wildhawk's connection to surrounding neighborhoods is strengthened by its presence in the Greater Kindling Yards-Northeast Planning Alliance, together with the BlackHorse and Kindling Yards neighborhoods.
As of 2050, there were 15,105 residents in the neighborhood.
Windhawk is classified as a good industrial area where gun, auto, magic, and pawn shops, public transit bus stops, warez stores, post offices and council office buildings, gated communities, stuffer shacks, automated vending stores, and gas/recharge stations are located.
Flintwarrior-Goringsteer (Security Rating: D): This very poor Aztlaner ork business district is located immediately north of Downtown Spokane and south of the North Hill bluff. Pheasant Street is the neighborhood's eastern border, and the city's main north–south thoroughfare. Pheasant Street also carries Route 2 and Route 395. This is a vast no-frills lower-class commercial district as well, made up mostly of struggling Anglo businesses. The northern boundary mostly follows a natural rise in elevation along Cora Avenue. The Chief Ahanu Gray Wolf Bridge over the Spokane River marks the westernmost point of the neighborhood. Shawnee Avenue serves as the southern border for the western two-thirds until HorseTrails Street, where the boundary moves south to Chinook Avenue.
Topographically, the neighborhood is mostly flat and lies on a plain near the Spokane River at the westernmost edge of the Spokane Valley. Elevations in Flintwarrior-Goringsteer tend to rise gradually to the north and to the east, away from the river. Flintwarrior-Goringsteer sits at approximately 1,900 feet above sea level, but the surrounding terrain rises rapidly at the north, at North Hill, and falls off quickly at the west, to the Spokane River.
As of 2050, Flintwarrior-Goringsteer was home to 108,616 working class Aztlaner orks.
Here, there are cheap Aztlaner ork restaurants, lower-class 5-20 story apartment buildings, duplexes, and multiplex apartments, social services offices, and closed businesses.
North Central (Security Rating: AA)
North Central is so named for being located directly north of Downtown, though it is the most southerly portion of the Flintwarrior-Goringsteer neighborhood (Security Rating: D). It also surrounds North Central Secondary School and bounded by Shawnee Avenue on the north, Pheasant Street on the east, Chinook Avenue on the south and HorseTrails Street on the west. North Central's built environment is a blend of the denser downtown core to the south and the rest of the city to the north. Upper-class Amerindian residential and commercial zones of mixed densities border each other across North Central, with single family mid-rise luxury condos across the street from high-rise office complexes and mid-density upper-class apartments alongside high-priced commercial centers.
Here, there are quaint mid-sized restaurants, upscale grocery, electronics, and media stores, upper-class hotels and wine shops, Pacific Cybernetics corporate clinics and media broadcasting stations.
Also found here is The Garland District (Security Rating: C), a pale reflection of its former self. In 2050, this is where the SINless go to get what they need to make life less painful. To many, that means BTLs. That means the crime syndicates have a stranglehold on this area of Spokane.
Here, there are factories, small and mid-sized no frills restaurants, cheap hotels, motels, and coffin hotels, power plants, water works, and utility services, fire and police stations.
>>>>>[Many of the gangs here are paid by one of them. If a SINer doesn’t have business here, best to steer clear. The only SINers who live here are the working poor and they can’t afford to pay the syndicates or the gangs protection nuyen. Yes, they are constantly harassed.]<<<<<
–PistonDiver (20:09:22/09-22-50)
>>>>>[Once the neighborhood's main center, the Masonic Temple, is now an auto store run by an elf rigger of German-Hungarian decent who calls himself Dapper Loco. Tall and thin. Noticeable with his long, wavy, jet black hair and short, red goatee, and blue almond-shaped eyes, as well as his uncanny ability to dupe people into thinking he’s some rube … who has somehow managed to build and run a successful rigger chop shop/auto store in the middle of one of the most hostile nations on earth towards Anglos. Best not to underestimate him. I hear he has connections in the Allied German States, a decker/rigger named Blitz and in Hungary, a fixer goes by the name Eminent Cash.
Dapper Loco knows the value of good customer service and keeping his mouth shut. The last slot that tried to make him regret that ended up floating face-down in Puget Sound with two dozen bullet holes right through his corpse.]<<<<<
–Cruiser (01:27:25/02-19-51)
was built at Garland Ave. and Wall Street.[6] The Benewah Milk Bottle building at Garland and at Garland and Post was built in 1935. In 1945 the Garland Theater opened at Garland and Monroe. All buildings remain to this day.
CrowBone Industrial Park (Security Rating: C)
Surrounding the public park which gives this area its name is the CrowBone Industrial Park Historic District. CrowBone Industrial Park is a bleak four block long by one block wide, oval of a park that was originally home to Spokane's first fairgrounds. The oval shape of the park is a remnant of the track that once surrounded the park. Once surrounded by homes built between 1900 and 1925 in the Queen Anne, Tudor Revival, Amerind Longhouse, Arts & Crafts, and Bungalow styles, it now is home to some of thew most depressing 35-story stone slab housing units in the Native American Nations. This is where around 25,000 Aztlaner ork immigrants live with their families in cramped and filthy spaces.
Here are cheap mobile homes, lower-class no frills mid-sized Aztlaner ork restaurants, cheap liquor stores that are fronts for BTLs and CalHots, Aztechnology corporate warehouses, supply depots, and shipping centers, stuffer shacks, automated vending stores, and gas/recharge stations, and gambling dens.
The park itself has grown wild and is now home to wolves, foxes, raccoons, rats, as well as many a paracritter. The most dangerous found here are the packs of barghests and flocks of cockatrices and harpies, as well as toxic city and forest nature spirits, toxic earth and toxic water spirits, and sasquatches. There is a group of male bear shapshifters and a group of male wolf shapshifters who guard the perimeter of the abandoned park whenever they aren’t fighting each other. A vampire is said to also dwell deep in the center of the dense overgrowth somewhere with a coven of ghouls. This is shared with a wendigo nearby with a coven of banshees, bandersnatches and dzoo-noo-quas.
There are also rock lizards, rockworms, tachypi (large carnivorous goats), heliodromi (a griffin-type creature but with a vulture-like head), nests of strix owls, tinpuk crows, devil rats and bandit raccoons, gloaming owls, pricuricu birds, gyre vultures, sirens, lesser rocs, lesser thunderbirds, gargoyles, birdmen, firbirds, stonebinder bats, stormcrows, blood kites, corpselights, embracers (hairless red gorillas with fangs and horns), firedrakes, as well as packs of agropelters, gabriel hounds, shadowhounds, troglodytes, hellhounds, and greater wolverines.
The greater unicorns here are wonderful to behold, however, but they are cared for and carefully guarded by two men-of-the-woods, who also protected by two piasma as well as a saber-tooth cat and a talis cat. Several leshy act as their minions, setting (deadly!) traps and such to deter trespassers.
There are also known to be hoop snakes, icedrakes, incubi, loup-garous, martichorases, mist lynxes, nomads, snow snakes and salamanders lurking here. Also, the new boars here can make for a great pulled pork sandwich or pork chop dinner!
>>>>>[And if the fauna weren’t enough, the flora is often enough to keep any inexperienced trekker out of this former park. The chimera trees, devil’s breath flowers, and slum slimes all grow here. Be wary!]<<<<<
–GrrrzLeeAdmz (09:26:30/08-19-50)
The CrowBone Industrial Park area is an Aztlaner ork and troll neighborhood that is located in the northwestern corner of Flintwarrior-Goringsteer. Pheasant Street runs along a ridge above and to the east, while the North Hill ridge rises to the north behind Cora Avenue. Post Street on the west and Buckeye Avenue on the north mark the other bounds. Low-income housing blocks have all but taken over the historic district. The area is much smaller and contained to only the streets immediately surrounding CrowBone Industrial Park. All blocks from Post Street on the west to New Valley Street on the east, which front Park Place, WhitePine Place, West Oval and East Oval are filled with the 35-story apartment housing blocks.
North Falcon District (Security Rating: AAA)
HorseTrails Street is a major north–south thoroughfare in Spokane. It connects Flintwarrior-Goringsteer with points to the north in the city with Downtown Spokane via the HorseTrails Street Bridge. It is also a luxury commercial and retail district as it passes through this Amerindian neighborhood. In 2018, in an effort to repopulate the city, major work was completed turning HorseTrails Street from a five-lane road into a three-lane road, with enhanced pedestrian and public transit resources. The North Falcon District Corridor spills south into the Riverside and West Central neighborhoods, and is home to numerous businesses, lavish shops, luxury high-priced restaurants and other expensive commercial ventures.
Here, there are large luxury restaurants, toy stores, media broadcasting stations, luxury brownstones, duplexes and multiplex condos, post offices and council office buildings.
Audubon/Downriver (Security Rating: B)
Audubon/Downriver is a Japanese ork enclave bordering Flintwarrior-Goringsteer to the northwest, but the broader Audubon area extends into the northwesternmost corner of Flintwarrior-Goringsteer. Audubon Primary, a public school, is located on Star-Seer Avenue in Flintwarrior-Goringsteer, with its campus extending to Northwest Boulevard. There is a more affordable upper-middle class Japanese-centric commercial and retail business district along Northwest Boulevard here that stretches into the Audubon/Downriver Neighborhood proper.
Demographics
As of 2050, Flintwarrior-Goringsteer was home to 71,826 Aztlaner orks.
Here are found Aztechnology corporate labs and research facilities, 5-20 apartments, co-ops, and condos, parks, gun, auto, magic, and pawn shops, bail bondsman stores.
TOWN AND COUNTRY CONTAINMENT ZONE
Security Rating: E
According to the Council Census Bureau, the TCCZ has a residential slum with a total area of 3.6 square kilometers, all of it land. Here, one finds Proteus AG corporate factories, no frills mid-sized restaurants, morgues, Gaeatronics corporate warehouses, supply depots, and shipping centers.
The city of Spokane surrounds the TCCZ on three sides: the east, south and west. The city's street grid continues into the Containment Zone uninterrupted in the east, though it breaks down in the west along the bluff leading up to the downtown middle-class area of Three Meter Prairie (Security Rating: A), where you’ll find warez stores, mid-sized family style restaurants, and social services offices.
The bulk of the TCCZ lies on flat ground like the surrounding north side of Spokane. Along the west, however, the terrain rises rapidly from Town and Country's elevation of roughly 610 meters to over 700 at the crest over less than 305 meters of distance in places.
As is the case with the city of Spokane to the east and south, Town and Country blends into its neighbor to the north, Country Homes (Security Rating: C), seamlessly.
Route 291 runs along Town and Country's southern wall, beyond which lies the North Hill neighborhood (Security Rating: AA). Cedar Road runs along the western wall, beginning on the flatland and then climbing the bluff towards the crest and into Three Meter Prairie (Security Rating: A). Most of the northern wall runs along Country Homes Boulevard. Pheasant is still the eastern border from Country Homes Boulevard south to Little Wolf Road. South of Little Wolf the border includes the Great Spirit Cemetery before following Thunder Sea Street, which runs parallel to and one block to the west of Pheasant, for the four southernmost blocks of the TCCZ.
Most of Town and Country is high density residential, but there are commercial zones in the south and Pheasant Street on the east.
Demographics
As of the census of 2050, there were 40,621 people residing in the TCCZ. The population density was about 2,390 people per square kilometer. The racial makeup of the TCCZ was 78% White, 8% African American, 1% Native American, 4% Asian, <1% Pacific Islander, and 9% were Hispanic or Latino humans. Otherwise, this is predominantly a Vietnamese and Turkestani dwarven immigrant ghetto.
According to the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands Census Bureau, the TCCZ has a total area of 17 square kilometers, all of it land. Spokane International Airport is located just four miles to the east.
Country Homes (Security Rating: C): This Japanese ork ghetto covers only 4.4 square kilometers of land and is home to 32,000 orks and trolls. This means there are 7,270 orks and trolls per square kilometer.
Demographics: The racial makeup of this portion of the TCCZ was 91% Japanese, so there was a fair number of oni orks, which is a Japanese ork subtype, and the architecture matches a crude Japanese appearance. The rest comprise orks and trolls of which 1% are African American, 1% being Native American, 3% Caucasian, 1% Pacific Islander, and 3% being Hispanic or Latino.
Country Homes is a depressing place where immigrants work long hours at menial jobs at no frills mid-sized Japanese ork soy restaurants, social services offices, cheap liquor stores, stuffer shacks, automated vending stores, and gas/recharge stations.
Fairwood (Security Rating: E): This portion of the TCCZ is a place not even the impoverished denizens of the rest of the TCCZ would dare go! It is said to be the home to a very large pack of 83,855 bandersnatchii! It is said throughout Spokane and Coeur d’Alene that this scourge began with the vampire of CrowBone Industrial Park.
The spread of Human-Metahuman Vampiric Virus has produced a larger than normal number of wendigoes, dzoo-noo-qua, goblins, bandersnatchii, and even banshees throughout these cities. The Mayors of both cities have spurned the Sovereign Council’s ruling on the standing of the infected in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands and offered a bounty on the heads of any of these infected.
This part of the TCCZ covers 9.3 square kilometers of land, which means there’s over 9,000 bandersnatchii per square kilometer, who dwell within the abandoned buildings of the former quiet middle-class bedroom community of Fairwood.
Fairwood is located in a lowland setting along the banks and wetlands of the Little Spokane River. The terrain falls from around 1,900 feet above sea level in the southeast to around 1,580 feet along the Little Spokane. Three Meter Prairie rises to the southwest, with a bluff climbing from the valley floor along basalt, rising almost vertically in places above Fairwood and the Little Spokane Valley before cresting at the elevation of the Columbia Plateau. To the north of Fairwood rise foothills of the SoaringEagle Range of the Columbia Mountains, where the bandersnatchii frequently go to feed on sasquatch blood. To the south the city of Spokane sprawls into Fairwood, with the terrain sloping up as it heads into the city.
As much as it could be guesstimated, the bandersnatchii in this part of the TCCZ were 3% White, less than 1% were African American, 4% were Native American, 2% were Asian, and 91% were Hispanic or Latino.
Here, you’ll find abandoned tenements and squats, as well as abandoned, condemned, and burned-out buildings where many bandersnatchii are forced to live. For the average human, ork, or troll here, they largely use whatever little bit of nuyen they have at the stuffer shacks, the cheap food carts, small and mid-sized no frills cheap restaurants, and automated vending machines, and many work at the fire and police stations as well as at the gas/recharge stations.
Mead (Security Rating: E): Once a peaceful unincorporated suburb and named for Civil War General George Meade, this once-rural area is now an overpopulated and filthy urban residential slum of population of Modoc was 70,000 orks of German and Kootenai Salish heritage.
Before the Crash of ’29, this part of Spokane was the second stop on the Spokane Falls & Northern Railway. The community was an historical district that included a carefully preserved Cushing & Bryant general store, a blacksmith shop, a public school for approximately 60 students, a Methodist Episcopal church, and a Sunday school. At that time the post office was located in the Cushing & Bryant store.
Modoc came to be home to several computer game development corporations, as well as many leading area employers. Modoc was also home to the Hierophant Meadery, makers of Metheglin-style mead, otherwise known as honey wine. Since the Treaty of Denver and the Crash of 2029, all these and other places sat abandoned, only to now become home to the bandersnatchii.
Here, there are Modoc Games Incorporated industrial complexes surrounded by cheap fast food restaurants and food carts, abandoned social services offices where packs of bandersnatchii have clustered. There are also tent cities and the Salish ranger recruiting offices.
Buckeye-Colbert (Security Rating: E): Buckeye is located in Spokane’s impoverished District 1, some 24 kilometers by road north of Downtown in a valley cut by the Little Spokane River, which flows through the community in a roughly southward direction. The floor of the valley is at 505 meters above sea level, with the terrain rising to over 640 meters on the Half Moon Prairie approximately 1.6 kilometers to the west and northwest. The community of Colbert is located three kilometers to the southeast, on the other side of Route 2. Buckeye is connected to Route 2 by Warrior Road. Little Spokane Drive begins just north of Buckeye and passes through the community as it parallels the river from Buckeye south into the north Spokane slums and ultimately Fairwood. Buckeye is a ghetto of Kootenai Salish orks that is surrounded by similar metahuman and Anglo ghettos and slums that typify Spokane’s District 1.
Buckeye is a majority Kootenai Salish ork ghetto, where are found secondhand gun, auto, magic, and pawn shops, a few public transit bus stops, some Pacific Cybernetics corporate factories and industrial complexes, no frills fast-food restaurants and food carts, stuffer shacks, cheap automated vending machine stores, and gas/recharge stations.
Colbert is a portion of Buckeye-Colbert on Route 2 and north of Downtown. The orks who live here are predominantly of German descent, and they host the Spokane Renaissance Faire, which is held annually in a field.
Chattaroy (Security Rating: D): Chattaroy is an African American, Korean, and Kootenai-Salish ork ghetto on Route 2 approximately 16 kilometers north-northeast of Downtown at the confluence of the Little Spokane River and Deer Creek.
Here are some Kyuusei Medical corporate labs and research facilities, as well as social services offices. If the residents don’t work there, they work at any of the police and a fire stations, or the sleazy bars and night clubs. These orks live in lower class houses and townhomes. Streetdoc black clinics have taken up business in condemned Universal Omnitech corporate buildings.
Green Bluff (Security Rating: Z): Green Bluff is a Japanese and Vietnamese ork ghetto of 4,300 residents. There’s a grange hall, church, fire station and general store and is known for equestrian properties as well as small farms. The Salish Rangers generally leave these orks and oni be. A tribe of oni that’s nothing more than a gang collects protection cred, and generally keeping the peace.
Here, one will find farms and ranches, scattered food and produce carts, streetdoc black clinics, traveling liquor sales, stuffer shacks, gas/recharge stations.
Deer Park (Security Rating: A): This is a crowded middle class Vietnamese enclave of 31,000 residents. It covers an area of 17.85 square kilometers, giving it a population density of over 1,700 per square kilometer.
Deer Park is 93% Vietnamese, less than 1% African American, 2% Native American, less than 1% from other Asian cultures, less than 1% Pacific Islander, and 4% Hispanic or Latino.
This immigrant community has done well for themselves, though they have cast out nearly all metahumans from amongst them. Those who were either born or goblinized into orks and trolls ended up in Green Bluff, while those either born as, or expressed into, dwarfs ended up in Town and Country, and those who were either born as or expressed into elves ended up in Nevada Heights.
Humans who disagreed with the practice of exiling “sub-humans” were themselves exiled as traitors to the Vietnamese people, and generally ended up in Little Wolf.
Here, there are public schools, trade schools, and the Deer Park Community College. There’s also several specialty east Asian liquor stores.
Diamond Lake (Security Rating: Z): This is an abandoned anarchy zone within Spokane around Diamond Lake.
Here, there are tent cities, abandoned tenements and squats, and decaying brownstones, duplex buildings, and multiplex apartments that are not yet condemned, abandoned social services offices. There are also Wuxing corporate factories and industrial complexes. There are also gun, auto, magic, and pawn shops that cater exclusively to shadowrunners.
>>>>>[This place is full of toxic forest and lake spirits. Don’t go here unless you want to tangle with some of these nasties.]<<<<<
–Lance (10:08:57/05-25-50)
>>>>>[Nearly 1,000 bandersnatchii, too. No talisman, no foci, no orichalcum, no nuyen is worth that drek!]<<<<<
–Nova (09:53:05/05-28-50)
East Central (Security Rating: Z): East Central is a lawless and crowded filthy slum. As the name suggests, it is on the east side of Spokane and centrally located. The official neighborhood is expansive and covers multiple areas considered by locals to be independent neighborhoods, such as the Anglo elven Union Lunaire District (Security Rating: Z) on East Moon Avenue, the South Tokala Anglo ork District (Security Rating: Z), the UnderHill Lodge area (Security Rating: Z) and the University District (Security Rating: A) on the eastern fringe of Downtown Spokane (Security Rating: AAA).
With a few exceptions in the University District, one will generally find power plants, water works, and other utility services, government office buildings with fast food joints on their ground floors. There are also several closed businesses, abandoned, condemned, and burned-out buildings, and empty lots where gangers, traffickers, prostitutes, BTL pushers and chipheads, drug dealers, and shadowrunners tend to lurk.
>>>>>[Word has it there even worse that lurk in these shadows. Runners are often hired by the gangs, specifically a group of shamans with a wide variety of skillsets: combat, detection, illusion, manipulation, to run bodyguard and something called “spiritguard” detail.]<<<<<
SpiritWalker (06:38:43/07-14-50)
As of 2050, 29,230 people, largely Aztlaner dwarfs, live in the ghettos of East Central. 10.5% of residents were born in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands. Of those who were not, 86% were from Aztlan, 5% from Russia, 1% from Ukraine and 5% from the UCAS.
South Tokala (Security Rating: Z): Located in the southwestern corner of East Central, the ork slums of South Tokala District crawl into the Fortune Heights (Security Rating: AAA) and Rødulv (Security Rating: AAA) neighborhoods. It is centered on the remnants of a commercial district along Tokala Street near Grant Park and the old Grant Primary School building where an ork gang is hole up. The district and surrounding area are a blight on District 2 (Security Rating: AAA), as the area south of Downtown Spokane is known colloquially. The stretch of Tokala Street from 9th to 13th Avenues is home to numerous unofficial weapons shops, bars, restaurants and retail stores favored by shadowrunners. It is also the location of a black market during the spring, summer and fall.
Sky Earth Park, a neighborhood landmark, is a DMZ located on the southern edge of the South Tokala District where it meets the Union Lunaire District.
Here, there are no frills fast-food joints, cheap gun, auto, magic, and pawn shops, stuffer shacks, automated vending machine stores, and gas/recharge stations, some bus stops, Universal Omnitech corporate lab and research facility with a secret testing and research facility. There are also abandoned tenements and squats as well as run down brownstones, duplexes, and old multiplex apartments.
Union Lunaire District (Security Rating: Z)
Centered on East Moon Avenue, the main surface thoroughfare extending eastward from downtown Spokane through the Distirct of Spokane Valley, an elven gang called the Union Lunaire rule this area of Spokane that bears the same name. The French elves have turned Moon Avenue into a choke point using traps laid down by allied leshy and munchkins. Unwelcome travelers meet their end. Expected travelers are questioned and astrally examined before being granted entry. The area from High Mountain Street on the east to Sky Earth Park on the west is jealously guarded by the elves and home to numerous elven stores, shops, restaurants, bars and apartments.
Route 90 passes under the area three blocks south of Moon Avenue, cutting the Union Lunaire District off from much of the rest of East Central.
The district is guarded by griffins, harpies, oracle owls, greater thunderbirds, satyrs, aardwolves, centaurs, unicorns and pegasi, cerberus hounds, gloaming owls, piasma and horned bears, grandfather elks, birdmen, basilisks, bogies, black annises, emperor eagles, Fenrir wolves, firebirds, marticorases, merlin hawks, pixies, phoenixes, wodewoses, Gabriel hounds, gargoyles, and shadowhounds.
The elves have remade the 5-20 story apartment buildings, co-ops and condos into something out of a Tolkien novel similar to Lothlórien, while those elves charged with augmenting the paranormal animals by actively protecting their little realm have set up for themselves shelters that are little more than prefab homes, mobile homes, tent cities, and squatter shacks that surround the central buildings that themselves surround a hulking Geatronics factory where elf wage slaves work grueling hours to support their families.
Elsewhere in this district, there are abandoned United States Post Offices as well as abandoned State of Washington and United States of America federal office buildings that have been taken over by squatters and small street gangs controlled by Union Lunaire.
UnderHill Lodge (Security Rating: Z)
On the eastern side of East Central is UnderHill Lodge, a property once owned by the City of Spokane and operated as a public park on the slope leading up to the Sundown Hill from the flat bottom of the Spokane Valley. This part of East Central is ruled by exiled members of the Kootenai Salish tribe and is predominantly single-family residential, though a commercial district at the Thor/Dancing Flower exit from Route 90 is home to many services like gas-recharge and grocery stores. Route 90 cuts through the area going east-to-west, separating it from the Union Lunaire District of East Central to the north.
Here, there are Proteus AG corporate warehouses, shipping centers and supply depots, 5-20 story apartment buildings, co-ops, and condos with cheap liquor stores on their ground floors. There’s also social services offices with no frills mid-sized restaurants on their ground floors. It is said that Proteus AG has more than one secret testing and research corporate facility here and runs the black market bazaars around the abandoned tenements and squats in the toxic zones.
UNIVERSITY DISTRICT
Security Rating: A
The University District, generally a middle-class business area, also referred as the U-District or Spokane University District, is a 4,124-hectare (41 square kilometer) area, tax increment financing, and innovation district in Spokane. It is located just east of Downtown Spokane in the anarchy of the East Central and the lower-middle class Little Wolf neighborhoods and is home to a number of higher education institutions giving disadvantaged youth from the surrounding neighborhoods a chance to climb out of their ghettos.
Throughout this District, there are Eibisu Biomechanics corporate housing enclaves in the form of student dorms and faculty/staff housing, hospitals and clinics as University Wellness Centers, and grocery, electronics, and media stores that serve as student cafeterias and campus bookstores.
>>>>>[Like drek it does! This is nothing more than a snooty elf enclave! University recruiters routinely turn down qualified “ghetto dwellers” and non-elves for “astute candidates” who’s ears are pointy enough and their frame is lithe enough! An ork street kid from Little Wolf Heights has ZERO chance!]<<<<<
–Blast Buster (02:19:39/04-19-50)
The district is approximately bounded by Sharp Spear Avenue to the north, the Spokane River and the SR-290 spur to the east, Route 90 to the south, and the Pheasant Street and Ruby/Young Eagle Street District to the west. The district is primarily home to Kootenai University, Salish-Shidhe Council Chieftains University's Health Sciences Spokane campus, and the Spokane campus of Central Salish-Shidhe University. Other institutions, such as the Community Colleges of Spokane, White Eagle University, and the University of Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands also have branch operations in the University District.
Here are found are several bookstores, electronics and simsense shops, and an eclectic collection of café-style eateries and coffee shops found on the ground floors of 17-story dormitory towers.
SSCCU Health Sciences Spokane Campus, formerly Riverpoint Campus
The middle portions of the University District are home to Salish-Shidhe Council Chieftains University Spokane, Central Salish-Shidhe University Spokane, and various other academic institutions. The campus was originally established in 1990 as the Riverpoint Aztechnology Corporate Higher Education Park, later renamed the Aztechnology Riverpoint Campus.
The Campus has a Security Rating of AAA. Here there are large luxurious restaurants for the students and faculty and staff to dine. There are also a Dean’s and Student Services Hall, an international student’s hall, council office liaison buildings, luxury houses and Saeder-Krupp corporate housing enclaves that serve as dorms for students and living quarters for faculty and staff and training facilities and schools that obviously serve as classrooms and labs. The campus also has several libraries, theaters, museums, and upscale student centers.
South University District
The south portion of the University District consists of academic buildings, student and adjunct housing, and various business incubators. The South University District is situated along Moon Avenue and is connected to the SSCCU Health Sciences Spokane campus via the University District Gateway Bridge, a pedestrian and bicycle-only cable-stayed suspension bridge that opened after the Treaty of Denver in December 2018.
South University District, an upper-middle-class downtown district, has a Security Rating of AA.
Here, there are dorms under construction, University hospitals and clinics, large upscale restaurants, open-air weekend markets, small coffee and pastry shops, stuffer shacks and automated vending stores on the ground floors of student resident brownstones, duplexes, and multiplex apartments that serve as fraternity and sorority houses and dorms.
Smart City
The University District is home to a smart city initiative named Urbanova, which is the first smart city project of its kind in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands. The project was launched in 2016 by founding partners AvistaTek Corporation, I-Tron Corporation, Salish-Shidhe Council Chieftains University, RunningDeer Corporation, the University District Development Association, and the City of Spokane. Current projects include A.I. streetlights and a shared energy economy model.
The project also has support from Salish-Shidhe Council Chieftains University's Day Star College of Engineering and Architecture, based at SSCCU's main Pullman campus, to develop a framework that can monitor, predict, and control energy usage and air quality, and also record the resulting health impacts, in the University District.
Smart City has a Security Rating of AAA.
Here, there are luxury large and mid-sized restaurants, Kyuusei Medical corporate labs and research facilities in the form of university thinktanks, fire and police stations in the form of campus public safety offices, private schools and college, Matrix provider nodes, churches, synagogues and temples, luxury high-rise buildings serve as dorms, Eibisu Biomechanics corporate industrial complexes to serve as utility services.
KOOTENAI UNIVERSITY
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Formerly Gonzaga university, this is a private, Salish university located in the Little Wolf Neighborhood immediately northeast of downtown. Kootenai is home to the national powerhouse Kootenai Hawks rezball program.
The northern portion of the University District is home to Kootenai University. Kootenai is a private, Native American institution with a 1,227 hectare (4.7 square mile, 12 square kilometer) campus and 82,650 students (54,095 underclassmen) as of 2050. Kootenai offers 170 undergraduate degrees across 393 majors, 16 master’s degrees and 5 doctoral degrees. Its athletic teams compete at the NABA Collegiate Level in the West Coast Conference. The DarkWolf Avenue Warehouse Historic District, a Salish historic district listed on the Council Register of Ancestral Grounds, is located on the western edge of Kootenai's campus.
The university grants bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and doctoral degrees through its college and six schools: the College of Arts Magic & Sciences, School of Business Administration, School of Education, School of Engineering & Applied Science and Magic, Shamanic Law & Tradition, School of Tribal Law, School of Nursing & Human/Metahuman Physiology, and the School of Leadership Studies.
Campus
Kootenai's main campus has 702 buildings on 1,227 hectares in the Little Wolf Neighborhood. The university has twenty large libraries. Snowbird Center Library is Kootenai's main graduate and undergraduate library, opened in 1992, renamed and refurbished after the Treaty of Denver in 2018. Chastek Law Library primarily serves the Kootenai University School of Tribal Law as well as the School of Shamanic Law & Tradition, erected in 2000 and refurbished in 2020. The Tall Crow School of Education building was completed in 1994, also refurbished in 2020.
Kootenai hosts many unique pieces of artwork, largely devoted to Amerindian theology. Among the most notable are totems depicting carvings of Raven, Coyote, Eagle, Dog, Wolf, Bear, Cat, Owl, Lion, Raccoon, Mouse, Gator, Boar, Bull, Rat, and others, as well as alumna Dancing Girl by Deborah Copenhaver Springflower. The Running Cloud Art Center and Museum established in 1995 and remade in 2022 also has a variety of Amerindian artwork from differing periods. The holy Shamanic Lodge of All Totems is a landmark of the Spokane area.
Due to an expanding student body of Amerindians, Kootenai U completed construction of a 10,909,091 nuyen building that serves as the new center of campus, the John Golden Eagle Great Lodge which replaced the former building that students used for over 60 years. The three-story lodge with almost 1.6 hectares; 16,000 square feet of floor space has a wood and glass exterior. It was completed in time for the Fall 2035 semester.
In 2024, the university made plans to build a performing arts center named after benefactor Kimi Day Star that would have a 3,000-seat theater.
In addition to the campus in Spokane, Kootenai's virtual campus in the Matrix has degree programs.
Academics
Kootenai's Amerindian-centered liberal arts tradition lies in its core curriculum, which integrates legend, shamanic religious studies, mathematics, literature, natural and tribal sciences, and extensive writing in each major discipline. Kootenai has studies in 221 fields and 108 graduate programs. Kootenai offers 170 undergraduate degrees across 393 majors, 16 master’s degrees and 5 doctoral degrees. It has programs in preparation for professional schools in business, education, engineering, dentistry, shamanic divinity/theology, tribal law, shamanic healing medicine, nursing, and veterinary medicine. It sponsors Salish Rangers Training program which prepares students to become Salish Rangers upon graduation.
Kootenai partners with White Buffalo Lodge, located next to the campus, to guide new shamans called by a Totem how to follow that Totem. Students may study abroad at Kootenai's campus in Florence, of the Italian Confederation, or at other programs in Australia, Benin, Denmark, the Chinese States, Aztlan, England, France, the Japanese Imperial State, Kenya, Spain and Azania.
As of 2050, there were 82,650 students (54,095 underclassmen) and 3,989 faculty at Kootenai University.
Admissions
Kootenai's undergraduate admission standards are considered “more selective” by U.C.A.S. News & World Report.
>>>>>[Yeah: Translation: NOT OPEN TO ANGLOS!]<<<<<
–Lone Ranger (06:25:02/11-22-50)
For the undergraduate Class of 2051 (enrolling fall 2047), Kootenai received 81,574 applications, accepted 46,038 (56.4%), and enrolled only 1,390.
Athletics
Kootenai University is part of the NABA Division I West Coast Conference. Their official mascot is the Bulldog and players are nicknamed the Tahatans. Kootenai has 18 men's and women's varsity sports, including baseball, rezball, combat cyclists, cross country, shinny, rowing, soccer, tennis, volleyball, urban brawl, and track & field (indoor & outdoor).
Basketball games are held in the Many-Hawks Athletic Center. The university's men's basketball team, which did not make its first appearance in the NABA tournament until 2045, made the regional finals of the NABA tournament (the “Eight Chieftains”) in 2049, re-appearing in the tournament every year since (As of 2051). The women's basketball team made it to the “Sister Warriors” in 2050.
Like many colleges in the NAN, Kootenai University does not play American Football, but rather Aztlaner Football the Anglos of the UCAS, the CAS, and the California Free State call Soccer; the announcement was made in April 2022. After the Treaty of Denver, the program had been in financial difficulty prior to the Great Ghost Dance. Kootenai football produced two Pro Football Hall of Famers: Jay Gray-Wolf (2041) of the Green Bay Packers, and Reece Soaring-Crow (2046).
Intramural and Club Sports
Kootenai University has intramural and club sports for each season, open to all students, and over 72% of the student population participates at various levels from competitive to recreational. In the fall, Kootenai has soccer, flag football, volleyball, dodgeball, 3-on-3 rezball (Amerindian version of basketball), badminton, and various tournaments. In the winter, it has soccer, ultimate frisbee, pickleball, bench press competitions, innertube rezball, and handball tournaments. In the spring there is ball race, volleyball, triathlon, soccer, and home run derbies.
Kootenai also has a Salish Ranger Challenge team, which has won 15 championships in the last 16 years. It has repeatedly won the Chief Many Wolves Award, given annually to the best Salish Ranger program in the central Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands.
Student Life
Kootenai Student Lodge Council is in charge of the clubs and activities on campus. Elections for its offices (e.g., Chief, Council Chief, Chief Ranger) take place annually during the spring.
More than 20 faiths are represented on campus.
>>>>>[Abusive Priests Sent To Live On Campus:
In 2018, the Salish Council for Investigative Reporting published evidence that the Cardinal Maximilian Lodge, owned by the Jesuit order and located on Kootenai's campus, was used by the Catholic Church as a retirement home for priests with histories of sexual predation and abuse from across the Pacific Northwest, from the 2030s through 2047. Sexually abusive priests were quietly kept there, out of contact with vulnerable populations yet shielded from any liability for the abuse they had committed. The last abusive priest moved out of the Cardinal Maximilian Lodge in 2047.
The Spokane Scout-Review newspaper questioned Kootenai University Chief Tyee Bull-Bear Graywolf's statements that he did not know, before or during his time as University Chief, about the abusive priests kept on campus.]<<<<<
–Conspeer-I-See (15:08:05/10-30-50)
SALISH-SHIDHE COUNCIL CHIEFTAINS UNIVERSITY SPOKANE
Salish-Shidhe Council Chieftains University Spokane (SSCCU Spokane), branded as SSCCU Health Sciences Spokane, is a campus of Salish-Shidhe Council Chieftains University located in Spokane, Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands. It was established before the Year of Chaos and The Awakening and, since the Treaty of Denver, was designated as the university's health science and shamanic healing arts campus. The urban campus is housed on the 697 hectares), or about 7 square kilometers, multi-institutional SSCCU Health Magic and Sciences Spokane campus, formerly known as the Riverpoint Campus, in Spokane's University District just east of Downtown Spokane.
As of Fall 2049, enrollment on the SSCCU Spokane campus was 5,179 students, consisting of undergraduate, graduate, and professional students, and the campus also employs 9,084 faculty and staff.
Campus
After the Great Ghost Dance, SSCCU Spokane operated out of leased space in Downtown Spokane. However, in 2016, with the opening of a building called “First Star” at the then-named Riverpoint Higher Education Park, SSCCU Spokane began to occupy the campus that it calls home today. The 1,479 acre (600 hectare) urban campus, which was originally established by the Joint Center for Higher Education (JCHE), is located in Spokane's University District, just east of downtown. Before its development, the campus was a brownfield site with rail lines and a waste incubator.
The JCHE first acquired land for the current-day campus in 2030 and, by 2032, released a master plan to develop the multi-institutional campus with five to seven buildings that SSCCU and CSU could eventually move into and fully transition out of its leased space in Downtown. The JCHE continued to own, operate, and develop the campus until its dissolution in 2038. At this point, full ownership and operations of the campus were transferred over to Salish-Shidhe Council Chieftains University.
Still embracing the JCHE's original vision for the campus to be collaborative and multi-institutional, SSCCU Spokane continues to share its campus with several other academic institutions.
Security on campus is rated A.
Academics
SSCCU Spokane houses the university's three human health sciences and magic-related colleges: the College of Nursing, College of Potions, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and the Brandon Stone-Oldbark College of Shamanic Healing Magic
It offers programs in Medical Sciences & Healing Magics, Parapharmaceutical Sciences, Nursing, Healing Traditions and Administration, Speech and Hearing Thaumaturgical Sciences, Nutrition and Exercise Paraphysiology, Education and Criminal Justice. Research occurs in the areas of astral sleep and projection coordination & performance, cancer, mental health, molecular astral resonance, and paranormal substance abuse.
DISTRICT 2 (South)
Security Rating: AAA
The south side of Spokane is a very affluent and exclusively Amerind area, largely characterized Downtown, as well as Young Eagle's Addition and District 2, which are home to Spokane's oldest residential areas. Geographically, the “hill” that forms the area encompasses the whole of the city proper south of downtown, from east to west and is characterized by highly variable terrain from block to block. From Downtown, the view of the Sundown Hill is dominated by evergreen trees and two large man-made features: Sacred Lodge Medical Center, which is Spokane's largest hospital, and the Shamanic Lodge of Chief Wild Bear, the first Mayor of Spokane after the Treaty of Denver, and a magnificent example of modern Inland Salish architecture.
Though it is comprised of several smaller and diverse neighborhoods, District 2 is generally a Kootenai Salish human area.
District 2 is known for its hospitals and clinics, it’s council courthouses, embassies, council office buildings, boutiques, salons, clothing stores, body shops, libraries, theaters, museums, and a civic center, as well as luxury houses and townhomes.
Young Eagle's Addition (Security Rating: AA): A Native Historic District west of Downtown, Young Eagle's Addition remains Spokane's origional prestigious address, notable for its old native lodges built in Chief Running Bear and early Native Craftsman styles, by Spokane's Amerind human elite. The area also is home to Coeur d'Alene Park and the Museum of Arts and Native Culture (MANC). A prominent feature of the MANC is the Chieftain’s Lodge, a turn-of-the-20th-century Amerindian lodge designed by renowned architect Reece Gray Wolf, and built by Spencer Swift Big Lodge, a local mining magnate. His daughter, Helen Swift Big Lodge, donated the lodge to the central Salish-Shidhe Historical Society, which subsequently built a museum on the east lawn. The Spokane Salish built home retains most of its original decor and is a favorite tour destination.
Young Eagle's Addition is immediately to the west of Downtown Spokane. There is something of an interface area between Downtown and Young Eagle's in the Ciqala Square area, which straddles the border between the two neighborhoods on Riverside and 1st Avenues. Spokane Fire Department Station 4 is located on the Young Eagle's Addition side of this interface, surrounded by the off-and-on-ramps of the Maple Street Bridge.
The Spokane River cuts a deep gorge to the north of Young Eagle's Addition, with the Peaceful Valley neighborhood (Security Rating: AA) occupying the area between the slope and the river itself. Latah Creek, which flows into the Spokane River a few hundred feet northwest of Young Eagle's Addition, cuts a similarly deep valley to the west of the neighborhood, forming the border between Young Eagle's Addition and the High Bridge Lodge portion of the Latah/Hangman neighborhood (Security Rating: C). Sundown Boulevard, which crosses Latah Creek to connect the Sundown Hill area of the West Hills neighborhood (Security Rating: B) with Young Eagle's Addition, Downtown Spokane and the rest of the city, acts as the southern border of the neighborhood. Though, the elevated maglev railroad tracks running adjacent to and immediately south of Sundown Boulevard are the official boundary between Young Eagle's Addition and the Coyote Cliff Neighborhood (Security Rating: B) of District 2.
Riverside Avenue passes from Downtown Spokane through the northern edge of the neighborhood, providing an arterial and thoroughfare through the neighborhood down into Peaceful Valley and on into the West Hills. Pacific Avenue and Second Avenue provide the main east-to-west thoroughfares through the neighborhood, with both coming to an end on the western edge of Young Eagle's Addition. Sundown Boulevard on the south, like Riverside on the north, is a thoroughfare that goes through and beyond the neighborhood. There are no true north-south arterials in the neighborhood, due to the gorge cut by the river to the north and the elevated maglev tracks to the south. Cannon Street acts as the closest thing to a north-south arterial in the neighborhood, as its roundabout intersection with Pacific Avenue can be considered to be the heart of the neighborhood.
The City Line bus rapid transit route is under construction in Young Eagle's Addition. It connects the neighborhood, on its western end, to Spokane Community College in Chief Garry Park via Downtown Spokane and Kootenai University.
Coeur d'Alene Park, named for the nearby District of Coeur d'Alene is located in the middle of the neighborhood. It takes up four square blocks centered on Third Avenue and Hemlock Street and provides rezball courts, archery fields, a playground, restrooms, picnic facilities and a gazebo in the center. Tall, old ponderosa pine trees are common throughout the park and neighborhood.
As of 2050, 30,493 people live in Young Eagle's Addition. Young Eagle's Addition is known for its affluent young adult human Anglo and Amerind population. 94% of the population was born in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands. Of the foreign born residents, 28% are from Japan, 24% from Ethiomalia, 12% from Vietnam and 8% from Norway.
It is known as a hip neighborhood for young adults, with many students and Gaeatronics corporate service-industry workers calling it home.
Here are many high class brownstones, duplexes, and multiplex apartments which are surrounded by parkland. On the ground floors of these high class resident mid-rises, there are boutiques, salons, clothing stores and body shops, gun, auto, magic, and pawn shops, as well as upscale grocery, media, and electronics shops.
Coyote Cliff (Security Rating: B): Bounded on the north by Route 90, this middle class Anglo-Amerind neighborhood lies between Third and Fourth Avenues. In the far northern portion are Sacred Lodge Medical Center and Healing Bear Hospital, which anchor Spokane's medical district. Sitting between the two hospitals is the historic StrongTree George Secondary School. This portion of Coyote Cliff is separated from the rest of the neighborhood by a steep hill which, in places, is a sheer cliff of exposed basalt. Unofficially this hill marks the beginning of the multi-neighborhood region of District 2, the transition from the Downtown District to the residential areas of the south side of the city. On the western edge of Coyote Cliff is another steep hill, this one carved by Latah Creek. The Burlington-Northern Santa Fe Maglev Railway and Inland Council Way divide the decidedly Anglo Latah/Hangman neighborhood (Security Rating: C) from Coyote Cliff and District 2.
Coyote Cliff is a neighborhood is located immediately south of Downtown, and on the lower reaches of the broader District 2. The neighborhood is home to a medical district with Sacred Lodge and Healing Bear both having their main campuses along Coyote Cliff's denser northern edge. To the south the neighborhood becomes more residential. City parks break up the residential zoning of the southern half of Coyote Cliff. It is adjacent to the Anglo Coyote Hill area (Security Rating: D) of the neighboring but separate Amerind Manitoo/Coyote Hill neighborhood (Security Rating: AA). The Marycliff-Cliff Park Historic District (Security Rating: A), a Native Historic District listed on the Council Register of Historic Places, is located within the neighborhood.
There is a large medical campus in the northern portion of the neighborhood, from roughly Monore Street on the west and extending east out of the neighborhood into the Aztlaner dwarven slums of East Central (Security Rating: Z). This medical district with the campuses of both Sacred Lodge and Healing Bear hospitals borders Downtown, which lies immediately to the north on the other side of Route 90.
StrongTree George Secondary School, which serves the neighborhood and broader Sundown Hill area is located between the two hospital campuses, just south of Route 90.
The neighborhood is defined by the hillsides on which it is located. The northernmost portion of the neighborhood is in the relatively flat valley of the Spokane River. To the south the neighborhood rises above the river to the level of the surrounding Columbia Plateau. On the west the boundary of the neighborhood is defined by the steep hillside dropping down to Latah Creek. Terrain generally increases in elevation as you move northwest to southeast through the neighborhood, with the steepest and most dramatic inclines found on the northern and western areas of Coyote Cliff.
As of 2050, the population of Coyote Cliff was 11,073.
Though most of the residents here are human and Anglo, 91% of residents were born in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands. Of foreign born residents, 16% came from the Philippines, 14% from Burma, 9% from the UCAS, the CAS, and the California Free State, and 6% from Aztlan.
Pacific Prosperity Group corporate office buildings and headquarters and the factories each corporation of the PPG may own. On the ground floors of the corporate office buildings are small- and mid-sized middle class and fast food restaurants. On weekends, open-air markets fill the otherwise empty lots.
Cloudstag (Security Rating: AA): Cloudstag is a mostly Human/Elf, Kootenai Salish/Tsawassen Amerind residential neighborhood south of 29th Avenue and west of Tokala Street in District 2. It is overwhelmingly single-family residential though there are a few other areas. Manitoo Shopping Center, a 34,128 square meter, 12-floor vertical shopping center at 29th and Grand is an important commercial district for District 2. Sacajawea Middle School and the StrongTree George Secondary School sports fields are located in the center of the neighborhood.
Cloudstag is located on the south side of the city in District 2. The neighborhood is a mix of homes built during the streetcar era and then built during the post-Treaty housing boom. Along with the regionally important Manitoo Shopping Center, the neighborhood is also home to several more commercial districts, two schools, the eponymous Cloudstag Park, sports fields and a stickball field.
Cloudstag is located in the Sundown Hill area (Security Rating: AAA) of Spokane, in the southwestern quadrant of the city. 29th Avenue is the neighborhood's entire northern border, from High Drive in the west to Tokala Street in the east across which lies the Southgate neighborhood. High Drive, and the adjoining bluff that rises above Latah Creek separate Cloudstag from the Latah/Hangman neighborhood below, on the west and southwest. The border diverges from the ridge at High Drive and Manitoo Boulevard, where it cuts north at a nearly 90 degree angle and then zig-zags to the southeast until it reaches 57th Avenue at Hatch Road. It then drops north to 54th Avenue where it goes over to Tokala Street. The eastern border follows Tokala from here to 29th Avenue in the north.
The Bluff passes Cloudstag along High Drive, then past the stickball field by Hatch. The Bluff rises over 152 meters from its floor at Latah Creek.
Though it is located in District 2, and located atop a steep bluff, Cloudstag itself is mostly flat. The slopes of the Sundown Hill become more noticeable to the north of Cloudstag, as they descend towards the Spokane Valley. Cloudstag, however, is at roughly the same elevation as the surrounding Columbia Plateau.
Due in part to the flat terrain, the majority of Cloudstag conforms to the city's street grid, especially east of White Owl Street. The newer developments between Cloudstag Park and the curve of the Bluff are a notable exception, taking on a more suburban Amerind style with winding roads and cul-de-sacs The grid is broken in a few places, such as by the Hart Field/Sacajawea Middle/Jumping-Deer Primary complex and the private Manitoo Stickball Lodge in the far south.
There are numerous publicly accessible open areas in Cloudstag. Cloudstag Park is located in the northwestern corner of the neighborhood, between 29th and 33rd Avenues and Fortune Drive and Hawk Thunder Street. Amenities at Cloudstag Park include an aquatics lodge, playground, picnic areas, archery fields, ball race diamond and rezball court. Hart Field is the site of StrongTree George Secondary School's sports fields, between 33rd and 37th Avenues. Manitoo Boulevard features a tree-lined parkway that runs from the southern bluff at High Drive south into the Manitoo/Coyote Hill neighborhood (Security Rating: AAA) to the north. High Drive also features The Spirit Trail that runs along the southern and western bluff.
As of 2050, 47,040 people lived in Cloudstag. Non-Amerind persons of color make up 9% of residents.
95% of residents were Kootenai Salish and Tsawassen Amerindians born in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands. Of those born outside of the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands, 17% came from the UCAS, the CAS, and the California Free State, 16% from Korea, 12% from the Chinese States, and 8% from Colombia.
Here, there are open-air markets in parking lots and structures of upscale hotels and Pacific Prosperity Group corporate clinics.
GreatVista-Teetonka (Security Rating: AA): Two valleys mark the north and east sides of this neighborhood: on the east is the valley of Latah Creek and the lower-class Anglo neighborhood of Latah Valley (Security Rating: C); on the north is the less steep valley of Bounty Springs Creek. Route 90 separates GreatVista-Teetonka from the Asian West Hills neighborhood (Security Rating: B), however these two city designated neighborhoods share the luxury Sundown Hill neighborhood. GreatVista refers to the subdivision located in the upper part of the northern half of the neighborhood, which was developed starting decades before The Awakening. The vista includes much of the north and south sides of Spokane, Downtown Spokane, Eagle Harmony Hill (Security Rating: B) and the Latah Valley. Teetonka is a road that runs west-southwest from Route 195 thru a valley immediately south of that subdivision. The area immediately surrounding and to the south of Teetonka Road is less developed than the GreatVista section.
The neighborhood takes its name from two roads that pass through. GreatVista Boulevard, so named because of its location at the top of a ridge from which large swaths of Spokane, the Spokane Valley and surrounding mountains to the north and east such as Mount Spokane, can be seen, is located in the northern part of the neighborhood. Teetonka Road traverses a gully in the central and southern portion of the neighborhood.
The neighborhood's topography is a defining feature, as evidenced by the name GreatVista. Route 90 descends into the Spokane Valley through the Bounty Springs Creek drainage in the north, and Highway 195 travels into the city through the deep valley of Latah Creek to the east. These hills, and the limited access roadways that bound the neighborhood to the north and east, isolate GreatVista-Teetonka from the rest of the city. Though the bulk of the neighborhood was annexed into the city by 1907, development was slow and much of GreatVista-Teetonka, especially in the south, remains undeveloped. The areas that have been developed are entirely residential, and almost entirely single-family residential.
GreatVista-Teetonka is located in the southwest corner of the city, with the city limits defining the neighborhood's western and southern bounds. Route 90 is the border to the north, across which lies the West Hills neighborhood. Route 90 descends from the elevation of the relatively flat Columbia Plateau on the west into the lower Spokane Valley below along Sundown Hill. Highway 195 and the BNSF Railway's Northern Transcon maglev tracks define the border on the east, separating GreatVista-Teetonka from the Latah/Hangman neighborhood. The interchange where Route 90 and Highway 195 meet marks the northeastern corner of the neighborhood. There, the elevation is 579 meters above sea level. Steep hillsides rise to 671 meters, with GreatVista Boulevard running along their crest. Most of the developed area of GreatVista-Teetonka is located in the GreatVista area atop the hill. There are smaller residential areas on the relatively flat but small areas at the base of the hill.
Bounty Springs Creek briefly passes through the northern corner of the neighborhood, passing under Route 90 at Running Bear Avenue. It then passes under Highway 195 near Little Bull Street, shortly before it empties into Latah Creek to the east.
The area south of what would be roughly 25th Avenue, all the way to what would be 44th Avenue and the city limits, is far less developed than the northern GreatVista section. There are some farms here, and homes are located on large lots with many tall ponderosa pines.
GreatVista-Teetonka straddles the boundary between two areas as defined by the World Wildlife Fund. The lower and easternmost portions of the neighborhood, like almost all of the rest of the city, lie within the dry forest, which stretches from just south of Spokane northwest through the Okanagan and into the Traveling Spirit Plateau. Tall ponderosa pine trees are a remnant of the pre-development nature of the area. As one heads west from the crest of the hill the dry forests transition into the Palouse grasslands.
As of 2050 the population of GreatVista-Teetonka was 14,747. Aztlaner Humans and Elves make up 21% of the population. 92% of residents were born in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands. Of those Humans and Elves not born in the Tribal Council Lands, 24% are from Aztlan, 21% are from Ukraine, 20% from India, 12% from the UCAS, the CAS, and the California Free State and 5% from Russia.
Here, there are many parks surrounding gated communities, luxury brownstones, duplexes and multiplex apartments, large and luxurious restaurants.
Latah/Hangman (Security Rating: C): An expansive lower class Anglo neighborhood which stretches from the Riverside Ave. bridge over Latah Creek in the north, technically on the north side of the street grid, to the extreme southern boundary of the City of Spokane. The geography of the neighborhood is divided into two distinct areas: the very expensive and older Kootenai Salish human WiseOwl Flats neighborhood (Security Rating: AA) located on the valley floor in the northern portion; and the more recent developments of the luxury Kootenai Salish human Qualchan/Eagle Ridge (Security Rating: AA) areas, located to the south on the western hillsides. Due to the expansive area of the neighborhood, combined with its bisection Route 195, maglev railroads and Latah Creek, there are smaller, isolated clusters of expensive homes. The valley floor is located at approximately 550 meters above sea level and the surrounding hillsides rise to approximately 700 meters on the east and 670 meters on the west. The mouth of the creek at the Spokane River is located just beyond the neighborhood's northern border. To the east of the creek is a steep hill, undeveloped parkland except for maglev railroad tracks in the northern portion, known as “the bluff”. On the west side the hill is not as steep and is more developed. From the west Latah Creek receives Marshall Creek at approximately the intersection of Chankoowashtay-Spokane Road and Route 195. Bounty Springs Creek flows through Latah Valley, entering immediately upstream of the Route 90 bridge.
It is named for Latah Creek, also known locally as Hangman Creek, which flows through the neighborhood and cuts the valley in which it is located. Latah/Hangman is located in the valley of the creek, which isolates it somewhat from the rest of the city. It is also a very long neighborhood, stretching from the Spokane River Gorge, about 1.6 kilometers downstream from the Downtown District, on the north all the way to the city's southernmost point.
Topography, dominated by the deep valley cut by the creek, along which runs Route 195, is a defining feature of the neighborhood. The creek and highway divide Latah/Hangman into numerous distinct districts including WiseOwl Flats, Qualchan and Eagle Ridge. The neighborhood is known for its mixture of developed, lower class residential areas that exist alongside luxury residential areas which gives the neighborhood a more of a mixed income feel even in its northernmost limits which are just 1.6 kilometers from the central business district of Downtown Spokane.
Latah/Hangman has a diverse geography thanks to its large size relative to other neighborhoods in the city. From High Bridge Lodge in the far north the neighborhood stretches more than four miles south-southeast to the city's southern limit. Its boundaries are irregular, but the vast majority of the neighborhood is located on the floor of the valley cut by Latah Creek or the slopes along either side. The floor of the valley, along the creek, lies at elevations between 520 meters in the north and 550 meters in the south. The surrounding Columbia Plateau lies at an elevation in excess of 700 meters, giving the Latah Valley a depth of up to 150 meters. In places, particularly on the eastern slopes, that rise is dramatic and occurs across less than 0.4 kilometers of distance.
The slopes to the east are the steepest, and largely unsuitable for development except for at southernmost tip of Latah/Hangman along Hatch Road. Other than the development there, the eastern slopes are dominated by parkland covering over 202 hectares commonly known as the Sundown Hill Bluff. Trails crisscross the bluff, making switchbacks and passing through ponderosa pine forest and bunchgrass meadows. The slopes to the west are less dramatic and more suitable for development. It is on those slopes that the Qulachan and Eagle Ridge developments are located. The western slopes are also interrupted by valleys of smaller creeks like Bounty Springs and Marshall Creeks draining into Latah Creek.
The valley serves as a major transportation corridor for the region, carrying a limited access highway, Route 195, and two maglev railroads into Spokane. The more westerly of the two maglev railroad tracks is part of the BNSF Railway's Northern Transcon route. Towards the northern edge of the neighborhood, Route 90 and Route 195 cross over the creek together, along with separate bridges carrying Sundown Highway, a surface street, and the BNSF tracks. These bridges are the namesake for High Bridge Lodge, which lies in their shadow.
Most portions of the neighborhood, like almost all of the rest of the city, lie within the dry forest, which stretches from just south of Spokane northwest through the Okanagan and into the Traveling Spirit Plateau of British Columbia. Tall ponderosa pine trees are a remnant of the pre-development nature of the area. In the far south of the neighborhood, beyond the crest of Eagle Ridge to the south the dry forests transition into the Palouse grasslands.
Riverside Avenue is the neighborhood's northern border. On the west the border is defined by the limits of High Bridge Lodge in the north, then by Route 195 south to 16th Avenue, then the BNSF maglev tracks to 44th Avenue. At 44th, the boundary cuts back to the east to Chankoowashtay-Spokane Road, which it follows southwest to the city limits. From there the southern border is a series of zigzags to the southeast, then to the east along what would be 73rd Avenue, until reaching the Hatch Road bridge over Latah Creek. The border then follows Hatch Road north to 57th Avenue, where it then zigzags to the northwest until reaching what would be 40th Avenue. From here the border follows High Drive along the crest of the bluff until 21st Avenue, then the rail tracks at the bottom of the bluff to 7th Avenue where it reenters High Bridge Lodge.
As of 2050, Latah/Hangman was home to 35,412 white Anglo humans and elves from the UCAS, the CAS, and the California Free State. Persons of color made up 12% of the population. 8% of residents were born in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands. Of residents not born in the Tribal Council Lands or territories, 53% were from the UCAS, the CAS, and the California Free State, 16% came from Ukraine, 12% from Russia, 10% from the United Kingdom and 9% from Aztlan.
Here, there are Eibisu Biomechanics corporate warehouses, supply depots, and shipping centers, public schools, trade schools, and city colleges, lower-class prefab houses and squatter shacks, cheap hotels, motels, and coffin hotels. At the ground floors of these cheap hotels and coffin hotels, there are sleazy bars and night clubs.
WiseOwl Flats (Security Rating: AA): Located on the valley floor, WiseOwl Flats is the longest inhabited area of Latah Valley. Inland Council Way, which connects the area with the rest of the city, is the main arterial in WiseOwl Flats. This area is a patchwork of luxury homes surrounded by acres of land, greenhouses, riverbank areas along the creek and private shamanic lodges. Immediately to the north of the neighborhood are the high bridges over the creek of Route 90, Sundown Boulevard, and the BNSF railroad. Located beneath and around those bridges is the aptly named High Bridge Lodge. The Lodge is mostly undeveloped land along the hillside and creek but has a shaman shelter with a maintained grass area used by shamans who follow various Totems such as Otter, Owl, Prairie Dog, Antelope, Turtle, Bat, Bear, Wolf, Buffalo, Coyote, Deer, Eagle, Fish, Fox, Gecko, Goose, Horse, Lizard, Wildcat, Phoenix, Thunderbird, Unicorn, Stream, Moon, Wind, and Sun.
Located in the northern portion of the neighborhood, WiseOwl Flats, as the name suggests, is located on flat land along the banks of Latah Creek. WiseOwl Flats is the older and wealthier Amerindian portion of the Anglo Latah/Hangman neighborhood, as it is the closest to the Downtown District. This is an area of palatial Native American homes surrounded by sweeping manicured lawns with totem poles, hanging dreamcatchers, and the like. It is laid out along the city's street grid, which is regularly interrupted by the creek, bluffs and cliffs. Latah Creek lies to the east of the district in the south before cutting through the center and flowing along the west side as it heads north. There are bridges at Inland Council Way, Chestnut Street and 13th Avenue. WiseOwl Flats is long and thin, stretching from 9th Avenue in the north to roughly 30th Avenue in the south. At no point is the developed area of WiseOwl Flats less than five city blocks wide, with no more than three north–south streets running parallel to each other anywhere in the district. Route 195 runs along the western edge of the district and connects to WiseOwl Flats via Teetonka Road. That, along with Inland Council Way, are the only automobile routes into or out of WiseOwl Flats. 13th Avenue connects with the rest of the city through High Bridge Lodge, but there is a gate across the road at the lodge entrance which can be locked at night.
WiseOwl Flats has a mixed character with older Salish Craftsman Longhouse-style homes, open fields, large greenhouses and a few businesses all interspersed with one another.
Great Wolf Park, a small neighborhood park, is located to the south (west bank) of Latah Creek at Inland Council Way and has a playground, rezball hoop, ball race diamond, picnic shelter and grass fields. To the north of WiseOwl Flats, below and beyond the high bridges, is the aptly named High Bridge Lodge which is much larger than Great Wolf Park and intended to be used by shamanic groups.
Here, there are libraries, theaters, museums, and health clubs. There are also luxury brownstones, duplexes, and multiplex apartments with large upscale restaurants on their ground floors.
Qualchan/Eagle Ridge (Security Rating: AA): This area is composed of two separate, but adjacent luxury suburban style Amerindian Salish-Kootenai developments located along the hills in the southwestern portion of Latah Valley. This is the most modern part of the neighborhood as these two developments are still expanding. An unofficial neighborhood, the boundaries are roughly the intersection of Chankoowashtay-Spokane Road and Route 195 in the north, the city limits on the south and west, and Route 195 on the east. At the northern end is the commercial center of Latah Valley with several businesses including a high end grocery store, gas/recharge station, luxury restaurants, large banks and various small kitschy expensive Amerind shops.
Located south of WiseOwl Flats and north of Eagle Ridge, Qualchan sits roughly in the middle of the neighborhood. It is bisected Route 195, and the character of the district is distinct on each side of the highway with human Kootenai Salish on one side and Elven Kootenai Salish on the other. To the north and east is The Creek at Qualchan stickball field, operated by the city of Spokane. Latah Creek meanders through the stickball field, and steep bluffs rise abruptly to the north and east. The bulk of the development in Qualchan is to the south and west of the highway. A luxury class commercial district is located here along Chankoowashtay-Spokane Road. Above that, climbing the hill towards Eagle Ridge, are the Qualchan luxury housing properties.
Development in the Qualchan area is more recent than WiseOwl Flats, but slightly older than in Eagle Ridge. The Qualchan area is more suburban in nature than WiseOwl Flats and does not conform to the city's street grid. It is connected to the rest of the city by Route 195, which has an overpass interchange at Chankoowashtay-Spokane Road, and an at-grade connection to Qualchan Drive. Fortune Way and Cedar Road connect Qualchan with Eagle Ridge.
The most recently developed portion of Latah/Hangman, Eagle Ridge is a luxury suburban Amerind development on the slopes and high ground above the western side of the Latah Valley. It is located in the southernmost portion of the neighborhood, and thus the city as well. Eagle Ridge has retained the suburban nature but is less spread out in places.
Eagle Ridge is entirely single-family luxury residential, with no retail or commercial districts and no public parks, though there are two private shamanic lodges for residents. It is a planned community of roughly 4,122 homes, all of which are part of a Council Homeowner Lodge.
As a planned community, and due to the topographical concerns, Eagle Ridge, like Qualchan below, does not follow the city's street grid. It is connected to the rest of the city via Route 195, which has an at-grade intersection at Meadowlane Road. Fortune Way and Cedar Road, via Chankoowashtay-Spokane Road, connect Eagle Ridge with Qualchan and points beyond.
Here, there are Universal Omnitech corporate office buildings and headquarters as well as many luxury 5-20 story apartment buildings, co-ops, and condos with upscale bars and nightclubs, mid-sized and large restaurants, luxury boutiques, salons, clothing stores and body shops, and surrounded by parks.
Fortune Heights (Security Rating: AAA): Fortune Heights is a luxury-class neighborhood that occupies most of the eastern side of District 2, from Southeast Boulevard (Tokala Street, north of 29th Avenue) to the city limits. 37th Avenue is the southern border of the neighborhood, which stretches north to a ridge that overlooks the valley of the Spokane River. The neighborhood is centered on the intersection of 29th and Regal. The area around the intersection is one of the most luxurious and expensive commercial districts on District 2. Luxury condoplexes are common around the intersection, whereas the rest of the neighborhood is dominated by sprawling luxurious single family homes.
As the name suggests, Fortune Heights is a wealthy Anglo, East Asian and Native American human district lies on the slopes and atop the crest of the Sundown Hill area. Fortune Heights is home to a mix of large and luxury class single-family residential, multi-family residential, and expensive commercial areas and a significant amount of woodland for shamanic lodges. The sprawling exclusive Fortune Heights Shopping Center and surrounding area is one of the largest and most important and expensive commercial and retail districts on the entire south side of Spokane.
Slopes rise from the Spokane Valley below to the elevation of the Columbia Plateau. In places of Fortune Park, the slope is so steep that it exists as vertical faces of exposed Columbia River Basalt rock cliffs. The neighborhood rises from approximately 610 meters in the north to 700 meters in the south.
HawkSpirit Street serves as the eastern boundary of Fortune Heights and the City of Spokane. The mixed Chinese-Aztlaner GreyEagle neighborhood (Security Rating: B) lies to the east. 37th Avenue is the northern border, stretching west from HawkSpirit Street to Tokala Street. The western side of Fortune Heights is interrupted by the Rødulv neighborhood (Security Rating: AAA), appearing on maps as if a bite has been taken out of it. The western border runs along Tokala Street from 37th to 29th Avenues, where it cuts east along 29th for more than 0.8 kilometers. At 29th Avenue and Southeast Boulevard, the border follows Southeast around the curving eastern edge of Rødulv to 14th Avenue. At 14th, the northern border runs east from Southeast Boulevard to Crestline Street, cutting north for six blocks. From Crestline to HawkSpirit, the northern border mostly follows a ridge along which the Ben Bear Spirit Trail is located.
As with the rest of the city of Spokane, any parkland is used by members of wealthy local shamanic lodges, which is an important feature of Fortune Heights. Fortune Lodge spans the upper and lower portions of the neighborhood and takes up 21 hectares. Totem Meadow Park, adjacent to the Fortune Heights Shopping Center, is 3 hectares large. TurtleFrog Pond is a two-hectare space at 30th Avenue and HawkSpirit Street in the southeastern section of the neighborhood. Along the northern edge of Fortune Heights runs the Ben Bear Spirit Trail connecting Sky Earth and UnderHill Lodges in neighboring East Central (Security Rating: Z). A grassy and tree-lined parkway runs down the middle of 35th Avenue from RedChief Street in the center of the neighborhood to the city limits on the east. There are also outdoor recreation excursions at the three public Primary School campuses and one private middle school campus in Fortune Heights.
Most of the neighborhood, especially the eastern and southern portions, conform to the city's street grid. However, along the ridge that runs through the middle of the neighborhood, and on the rocky slopes along the north, streets are forced to wind their way through the local terrain. There are many loops and cul-de-sacs in this area.
As of 2050, Fortune Heights was home to 17,202 very wealthy non-Amerind and Amerind Humans.
People born in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands made up 92% of residents. Of the residents born outside of the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands, 15% came from Ukraine, 15% from Russia, 14% from Moldova and 7% from Vietnam.
Luxurious medium and large restaurants, jewelry and other high class stores, as well as boutiques, salons, clothing stores and body shops on the ground floors of luxurious 5-20 story apartment buildings, co-ops, and condo buildings and Eibisu Biomechanics corporate housing enclaves.
Manitoo/Coyote Hill (Security Rating: AAA): The boundaries of this beautiful area are considered to be approximately from wealthy Antelope Street to affluent Fortune Street in the east–west direction, and from 14th Avenue to 37th Avenue in the north–south direction. Best described as the area immediately surrounding the grand Manitoo and Coyote Hill Shamanic Lodge, on which it is centered, this opulent neighborhood covers a fairly large area. At one time, the park has a zoo with a number of exotic and paranormal animals calling it home. Exhibits include an owl barn, penguins, and large cats of various species as well as eyekillers, oracle owls, basilisks, chimeras, perytons, phoenixes, golden boars, Pegasus, unicorns, piasma, grandfather elk, et al. The neighborhood feeds many local exclusive Primary Schools, including WindWalker, SwiftRaven, EagleHorse, and Jumping-Deer. There is also the exclusive Anglo Cataldo Catholic School one block north of Coyote Hill Lodge. Most primary students move on to Sacajawea Middle School and then StrongTree George Secondary School. This neighborhood is populated exclusively by luxury-class Kootenai Salish families and features homes from many Amerindian eras, from Inter-Tribal Modern to Salishan to Native Arts & Crafts palatial-style homes. Manitoo and Coyote Hill Lodge each have a boulevard running nearby which features many of the remaining Native Craftsman palatial-style homes built, mimicking styles, in some cases, as early as 1004 with modern modifiers.
Manitoo/Coyote Hill is in the Sundown Hill area of Spokane. It is named after the two shamanic Lodges that dominate its setting: Manitoo Lodge and Coyote Hill Lodge. Manitoo/Coyote Hill is a predominantly wealthy Kootenai Salish residential neighborhood made up mostly by palatial single-family homes and vast forested shamanic lodge grounds.
The neighborhood is bounded on the east by Great Lodge Boulevard from 17th to 29th Avenues, on the south by 29th Avenue from Great Lodge Boulevard to High Drive, on the west along High Drive and Cedar Street from 29th Avenue to 17th, then along 17th Avenue from Cedar Street to Great Lodge Boulevard.
Downtown Spokane is located just over 1.6 kilometers from the northern edge of the neighborhood, down a steep hill into the Valley of the Spokane River, with the hillside neighborhood of Coyote Cliff between Manitoo/Coyote Hill and Downtown District. Manitoo Lodge, and its parkways, dominate the eastern half of the neighborhood. The western half, west of White Owl Street, is mostly luxury residential though Coyote Hill Lodge and the 21st Avenue Parkway break up the housing properties on the northern edge of the neighborhood. The High Drive Parkway descends dramatically to Latah Creek on the neighborhood's western edge.
Most of the neighborhood is laid out along the plan of the city's street grid system, though there are exceptions. Like other neighborhoods in District 2, local topography interrupts the grid in places. The grid is also interrupted by the neighborhood's Lodges. Additionally, the eastern and western boundaries of the neighborhood are defined by streets that do not follow the grid system. High Drive follows a ridge rather than the grid and Great Lodge Boulevard is at a slight angle. There are also three parkway boulevards that run through the neighborhood. One starts at Manitoo Lodge and follows Manitoo Boulevard to the south. Another starts at Manitoo Lodge on Badger Run and runs along 21st Avenue to the High Drive, where it meets the High Drive parkway which follows that road to the south.
As of 2050, the population of Manitoo/Coyote Hill was 52,795. Persons of color made up 5%.
94% of the residents were born in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands. Of residents born outside of the Tribal Council Lands, UCAS, CAS, and California Free State immigrants of Amerindian blood make up 29%, people from the United Kingdom make up 15%, people from Poland account for 12% and people from Romania account 12% as well.
Here, you’ll find matrix provider nodes, luxury hotels, churches, synagogues, and temples, as well as large and mid-sized luxury restaurants found on the ground floors of the luxury 5-20 story apartment buildings, co-ops, and condos, and the Wuxing corporate labs and research facilities found here.
Peaceful Valley (Security Rating: AA): A quaint, yet luxurious, comfortable Salish-Kootenai residential neighborhood descending into the Spokane River Gorge just west of downtown, Peaceful Valley had undergone change since the Treaty of Denver due to upscale development in the surrounding neighborhoods of Young Eagle's Addition, Kindling Yards and West Downtown (Security Rating: A). Still, the Valley remains one of the quietest, most prestigious, and quite exclusive of Spokane’s wealthiest neighborhoods, within easy walking distance of the city's core. A few luxurious riverfront homes are surrounded by a greater number of small tribal retainer bungalows and apartments, some of which are tucked below the Maple Street Bridge. People's Lodge and Latah Creek bound the neighborhood to the west. In many ways, Peaceful Valley seems little changed since the simsense film BrightStar & GentleDoe was produced here in 2043.
Peaceful Valley sits directly below Downtown Spokane on the Spokane River under its falls. The serene neighborhood snakes along the thin floodplain on the valley floor of the Spokane River Gorge for one-and-a-quarter miles from Buffalo Street at the Buffalo Street Bridge on the east, where it meets Downtown Spokane at the top of the Main Avenue hill, to the final bend of Latah Creek on the west. It is the smallest neighborhood in the city by both area and population, but due to its central location and unique character it is quite notable. The neighborhood has a culture harkening back to ancient chieftains and millennia of Amerindian tradition.
The Spokane River bounds the neighborhood on the north and the top of the steep slope on the south side of the gorge marks the southern edge where the neighborhood meets Young Eagle's Addition. At three points along the length of Peaceful Valley, the extent of flat land is less than 30 meters wide. In the western end of the neighborhood the terrain opens up considerably as Latah Creek joins into the Spokane River. The valley widens as those two streams come together. It is the site of People’s Lodge, which occupies the peninsula between Latah Creek and the Spokane River.
As of 2050, Peaceful Valley is home to 2,700 wealthy people who are either descended from or direct kin to some of the most well-known tribal Chieftains of the Council and the Native American Nations. 94% of residents were born in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands. Of those who weren't, 28% are from the Japanese Imperial State, 24% from Ethiomalia, 11% from Vietnam and 8% from Norwegian-Finns.
Here, you’ll find upper class wine shops and libraries, theaters, museums, and a civic center.
Rødulv (RedWolf) (Security Rating: AAA): An older and very exclusive, decidedly non-Amerindian, residential neighborhood of high-level corporate sararimen for Saeder-Krupp, Universal Omnitech, Wuxing, Aztechnology, Eastern Tiger Corporation, and Maersk. These wealthy residents are not only of Amerind tribal heritage, but also of Anglo-American, Chinese, Korean, and Aztlaner heritage, with many homes of Euro-Anglo, East Asian, Anglo-American, and Aztlaner architecture, though the dominant style is identical to the exterior and interior of the Jugendstilsenteret, National Romantic, Swiss chalet, or Vernacular architecture of Norway. Other buildings bear the following stylings of Norway: The Stave church style for any houses of worship, shops and restaurants in Swiss chalet style and Nordic Classicism, Norwegian Turf houses for any retainers’ shelters.
The Rødulv neighborhood is on the Spokane Register of Historic Places and part of the master plan of Spokane commissioned by the sons of Kolbjørn Hans Bronstad, descendants of one of the designers of Central Park in Manhattan, UCAS which was approved by the Sovereign Tribal Council.
In their design, the Bronstad Brothers recommended curving streets with a central boulevard winding through the heart of the neighborhood. Many street names in the neighborhood help illustrate the topographical profile of Rødulv. Along with the namesake boulevard, streets such as Overbløff, Øvreterrasse, Høytland, Platå, Furukam, and Vedklippe all include a reference to their geographic setting in Norwegian. Half of Rødulv is perched on a winding hillside, where the valley carved by the Spokane River rises rather abruptly to the elevation of the Columbia Plateau. In places, the elevation change is so dramatic that streets are cut off; for example, on Tokala Street a staircase, rather than paved road, connects Overbløff with 20th Avenue. Above the hillside the terrain is relatively flat. This change in elevation results in numerous basalt outcroppings within the neighborhood. Along with the exposed rocks this old neighborhood is full of mature trees.
There are many large and stately European Victorian styled homes in the neighborhood, especially along Rødulv Boulevard and the surrounding hillsides. The rest of the neighborhood is generally composed of smaller single-family Swiss chalet style and Nordic Classicism homes. Notable exceptions include the Spanish-Aztlaner Colonial-style of the EagleHorse Primary School building at 24th Ave. and Plateau Road, the Gothic-Stave Revival St. John's Cathedral at 12th Avenue and Great Lodge Boulevard, and the business district stretching north, from the cathedral, along Great Lodge.
Rødulv is located on the south side of the city to the southeast of Downtown Spokane and expanding southeasterly from close to the Downtown District. Its proximity to downtown makes it one of Spokane's older neighborhoods, with mature trees lining most of its streets. Due to its location on the hill leading up from the Spokane River Valley, the street grid breaks down in many places around Rødulv. The most notable of these is along the winding Rødulv Boulevard, which bends its way from the northwesternmost corner of the neighborhood through the center and across to the eastern border.
It is one of the more affluent neighborhoods in the Spokane community. Many old, large luxurious homes, mostly in northern European style architecture, are located in Rødulv, and unlike many of the other old neighborhoods surrounding the Spokane Downtown District, the vast majority of the large homes in Rødulv continue to serve as single-family housing.
Great Lodge Boulevard, a major north-south thoroughfare, is the neighborhood's western boundary and 29th street, a major east-west thoroughfare, bounds Rødulv on the south. Southeast Boulevard serves as the majority of the neighborhood's eastern and northern boundaries. Between Grand and Southeast Boulevards, about five block lengths of side streets act as the boundary between Rødulv on the south and East Central to the north.
Within the neighborhood is the Rødulv Historic District (Security Rating: A), which is listed on the Council Register of Historic Places. This district is about two blocks wide between Hatch and Antelope streets from 29th Avenue on the south to 14th Avenue on the north, from which it continues turns to the northwest and continues to the northwesternmost corner of the neighborhood. This area of the neighborhood was designed by noted landscape architects, the Bronstad Brothers. It features streets that curve around exposed basalt outcroppings and through old ponderosa pine and Douglas fir forest as they wind their way up the hill from downtown. The Bronstads were fond of diagonal streets such as Southeast Boulevard that borders the neighborhood. The Rødulv neighborhood borders two of the city's larger parks but does not contain any true parks within its boundaries. However, in the Rødulv Historic Districts, four small grassy islands are located on Goringsteer Road and Rødulv Boulevard, known as the Bronstad Triangle Parks, as well as a pair of grassy boulevards that intersect at the intersection of Upper Terrace Road and Rødulv and Høylandet Boulevards. The neighborhood's terrain is reflected in many of the Norwegian street names, like the aforementioned Rødulv, Høytland and Platå, as well as Bergskam Road and Overbløff Drive.
The neighborhood is overwhelmingly residential, though luxury commercial districts exist in the northwest along Great Lodge Boulevard extending north from 14th Avenue and in the Southeast along 29th from Pittsburgh Street and extending east into the Fortune Heights neighborhood. EagleHorse Primary School is located in the middle of the neighborhood at 24th Avenue and Plateau Road.
As of 2050, 6,011 humans live in Rødulv. 92% of residents, many are Anglo decedents, were born in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands. Among foreign-born residents, UCAS non-Amerinds account for the most at 26%, followed by the Philippines at 11%, Ukraine at 10% and Hungary at 8%.
Here, one will find luxury 5-20 story apartment, co-op, and condo buildings, as well as luxury gated communities with gun, auto, magic, and pawn shops on their ground floors. Hospitals and clinics, churches, synagogues, and temples, and luxury mid-sized restaurants.
Southgate (Security Rating: B): Located in the extreme southeast of District 2, it is an elvish Aztlaner and Kootenai Salish district bounded on the north by 37th Avenue, on the west by Tokala Street, and the city limits to the south and east. Southgate is experiencing growth in both population and area due to its location. Development extends beyond the city limits, and the city of Spokane is slowly annexing those areas. RedChief Street is the main commercial district in the neighborhood, particularly around 43rd Avenue. Feraness Secondary School, which serves the eastern portion of District 2, is located in Southgate at Regal and 37th. Featuring distinctly elvish architecture, Feraness is made up of multiple 3-story buildings featuring central courtyard quads with greenery surrounding central ponds and covered in weatherproofed armored glass canopies designed to maximize natural light even on cloudy days. These buildings surround a 14-story central twisting corkscrew spire of terraced polymers that is connected to the other buildings only by covered walkways. Spokane's climate during the winter is cold and snowy, which makes crossing an outdoor campus between classes unpleasant. Southgate is arguably Spokane's trideo capitol. KREM and KSPS-TV, the CBC and PBN affiliates respectively, are headquartered in Southgate. The Feraness Secondary School baseball field is all that separates the two stations. KHQ-TV, the NBS affiliate, was located directly across RedChief Street from KREM until 2041 when it moved downtown to create an all-Matrix facility. Along with the trideo studios numerous transmitters and towers are located within the neighborhood.
Southgate is one of the newer metahuman neighborhoods in the city, with development first taking hold in the post-Treaty of Denver housing boom and continuing into the present day. It is a mix of single-family residential, multi-family residential and commercial districts. The neighborhood has grown as Spokane has expanded southward, with multiple annexations expanding Southgate and the city.
Southgate is, as the name suggests, situated along the southern edge of the city of Spokane. Its southern and eastern boundaries also serve as the city limits. 37th Avenue makes up the entire northern border, separating it from Fortune Heights. Tokala Street serves as the entire western border, across which lies the Cloudstag neighborhood. 53rd Avenue constitutes most of the southern border, though from Dancing Flower it zig-zags to the northeast until reaching 37th Avenue. Beyond 53rd and the zig-zag boundary lie the Amerind village of GreyEagle.
Though it is located in the broader Sundown Hill area of Spokane, Southgate itself is relatively flat. The Sundown Hill takes its name from the steep relief of the hill as it climbs up from the Spokane Valley floor at Downtown Spokane in the north. Southgate, like the Cloudstag neighborhood to its west, are located beyond the crest of the hill. Here, the land is at the same relative elevation as the broader, surrounding Columbia Plateau. Elevations rise rapidly to the east and southeast, however, as Southgate and the Sundown Hill give way to Eagle Harmony Hill, the southernmost peak of the SoaringEagle Mountains, which begins to rise dramatically within 1.6 kilometers from the neighborhood.
As with the rest of Spokane, the neighborhood is dominated by towering ponderosa pine trees. There are also numerous wetlands, ponds and ephemeral streams in Southgate, which drain into the GreyEagle basin and ultimately the Spokane River.
The neighborhood is mostly single-family residential, with some multi-family residential along the central southern area of Southgate. There are also middle class commercial districts along RedChief Street, from around 44th Avenue in the north through the southern end of the neighborhood at 53rd. Also located there is the public Southside Sportsplex with many soccer fields, a baseball diamond and playground.
The neighborhood is home to three parks. The undeveloped Little Hawk Park in the northwest, the sports facilities at the Southside Sportsplex in the neighborhood's center, and the landscaped Ben Bear Park in the east.
A sizable chunk of the north-central portion of the neighborhood is taken up by the campus of Blake E. Feraness Secondary School which is located between Chieftain and Dancing Flower Streets along 37th Avenue and extends four blocks south to Thorn Flower Avenue.
As of 2050, Southgate was home to 76,575 Aztlaner and Kootenai-Salish elvish residents. 93% of residents were born in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands. Of the residents not born in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands, 10% were elves from Vietnam, 8% were elves from the United Kingdom, 7% were elves from Germany and another 7% were Aztlaner-American elves from the UCAS, the CAS, and the California Free State.
There are a lot of abandoned tenements and squats, hospitals and clinics, no frills grocery, media, and electronic stores, and cheap boutiques, salons, clothing stores and body shops here.
Riverside (Security Rating: AAA): Spokane's central business core boasts a posh elvish Amerindian Kootenai Salish neighborhood with recently revitalized Salish and elvish luxury shopping, housing and entertainment, with major projects recently completed and more underway. As with most river cities, Spokane's history revolves around its river, which tumbles through downtown in a series of rapids and falls known as Spokane Falls. Along the river is Riverfront Park, the central Salish Council Performing Arts Lodge, the newly remodeled and expanded Convention Center, and the River Glades & Lodge Shopping Mall. Nearby, one finds the luxury Spirit Warrior Hotel, the growing elegant Spirit Warrior Arts District, numerous shops, elvish pubs and restaurants, and much new luxury urban housing on the way, displacing many of the former low-income residents and businesses that dominated downtown before The Awakening. The Riverside Avenue Historic District is within this neighborhood.
Here, you’ll find jewelry stores and high class shops, open air markets and prestigious bars and night clubs, Pacific Prosperity Group corporate office buildings, labs and research centers, and headquarters, luxury brownstones, duplexes, and multiplex apartments, gated communities, and luxury houses and town homes.
GreyEagle: (Security Rating: B): GreyEagle is where the Gaeatronics corporate farmers live on small plots of land in small houses. They start their days in the pre-dawn darkness to grow the natural ingredients used to cook the food ordered in the luxury restaurants, the Five-Star hotels and in the wealthy residential neighborhoods. It is predominantly a Chinese and Latino suburban-style working class Human community in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands. It is a rural and suburban community split between sections of farmland with many wheat and corn fields and new construction of modest single-family homes. The community is bounded by mountains on two sides and the Spokane urban area on the other two.
Located on a prairie of the same name, GreyEagle sits immediately to the east of the Little Wolf Heights and Southgate neighborhoods of the South Hill section of the city of Spokane, and immediately north of the Distirct of Spokane Valley. The prairie slopes upward to the east and south towards the middle class neighborhood of Anglo elves and their farms on Eagle Harmony Hill (Security Rating: B) and its associated ridges, some of the southernmost peaks of the SoaringEagle Mountains. Main thoroughfares include GreyEagle Road, which bisects the prairie north to south, and 29th and 37th Avenues, which cross west to east from the developed area of Spokane. There are no roads crossing over the ridges to the east.
Numerous drainageways cut through the prairie giving it a rolling appearance similar to that of Palouse, located just south of the community beyond Eagle Harmony Hill. There are wetlands to the south and east of the prairie that serve as the source of these drainageways. Mostly fed by rainwater and runoff, many of these drainageways are temporary streams that only carry water after a storm.
The community is predominantly rural, with approximately 2,110 households with many located on five to 73 hectare parcels. However, suburban developments have encroached on the community. The municipal boundaries of both Spokane to the west and Spokane Valley to the north extend right up to the edge of GreyEagle, with a small portion of Spokane's city limits extending onto the prairie itself in the vicinity of 29th Avenue. Parts of the community now fall within the Spokane's defined urban growth area. Subdivisions and suburban developments extend eastward from Spokane as far as GreyEagle Road on the southern portion of the community.
Here, one will find middle class houses and townhomes, parks, large family style restaurants, mobile homes, liquor stores, public schools, trade schools and city colleges, quaint little coffee shops and bakeries.
Two Moons Prairies (Security Rating: C): An Aztlaner Human & Elf farming community. Here, vast farms of corn and wheat, and orchards of apple trees and huckleberries surround 20 – 40 story skyscrapers.
Here, you’ll find farmers association offices, barns, cheap liquor stores, as well as gun, auto, magic, and pawn shops geared towards elvish farms.
DISTRICT 3 (Northwest)
Security Rating: AAA
This is a very well-off upper-class business district where Humans and Elves of Kootenai Salish, Japanese and Korean heritage and culture tend to work at the various media broadcast stations and upscale shops. These mid-rise skyscrapers and sprawling complexes are constructed in a post-modern Amerindian design and are surrounded by vast parks.
Here are law offices, luxury brownstones, duplexes, and multiplex apartments, as well as 5-20 story apartment buildings, co-ops, condos, luxury houses and townhomes surrounded by parks. There are also churches, synagogues, and temples, mid-sized luxury restaurants, hospitals and clinics,
Audubon/Downriver (Security Rating: B): A Japanese ork residential neighborhood composed of post-Treaty Japanese-Amerind houses in the northwest of the city, it features a large recreation and Sportsplex known as Shadle Park, as well as being home to Shadle Park Secondary School. There is also the historical Drum Red Thunder Springs, the site of the first Japanese-style school built in the Council. Two-hundred years ago, local Indians were taught here by Chief Garry, a chief of the middle Spokane people who preached Christianity and peace among the Native Americans that inhabited what are now the central regions of the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands. The site is now managed by the Spokane Parks and Recreation Department as a natural area and has been adopted by the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands, for whom it is a traditional campground. A trail that once led from downtown Spokane still runs 200 kilometers north through the preserve.
Mid-sized restaurants, Pacific Prosperity Group corporate housing complexes with boutiques, salons, clothing stores and body shops, brownstones, duplexes and multiplex apartments fill this neighborhood.
The deep and steep gorge cut by the Spokane River defines the neighborhood's western boundary while most of the built-up area is located on a relatively flat tableland that slopes up gently to the northeast.
The Spokane River enters the neighborhood at roughly 510 meters above sea level and falls roughly 25 meters before leaving the neighborhood. It cuts a gorge that rises rapidly and steeply on the Audubon/Downriver side. In the far northwest of the neighborhood, the bluff rises nearly 90 meters over a horizontal distance of roughly 150 meters. The bluff is less steep in the southwestern area of the neighborhood, where the public Downriver Stickball field and Downriver Disc Stickball field are located.
Away from the river, however, the terrain is comparably quite flat. The bluff that runs east-west across the north side of the city peters out at the Drum Red Thunder Springs, near the neighborhood's eastern border. While the terrain climbs 90 meters over a distance of just 150 meters in places along the river, it climbs less than 60 meters from the crest of the river bluff to the neighborhood's high point in the northeast.
Audubon/Downriver lies within the dry forest, part of the broader temperate coniferous forest biome. The dry forests extend from just south of Spokane northwest through the Okanagan to the Traveling Spirit Plateau in the northern Salish-Shidhe. Within the developed area of the neighborhood, vestiges of the pre-development area are visible in the tall ponderosa pine trees, which are common throughout the neighborhood. More intact examples of the area can be seen in conservation areas such as Drum Red Thunder Springs, Downriver Park, and Riverside Council Park.
WildWind Avenue bounds the neighborhood on the north, separating it from the rest of District 3. Ash Street forms the eastern border, separating it from North Hill and Flintwarrior/Goringsteer. Fairview Avenue marks the southern boundary from Ash Street west to Chief Ahanu Gray Wolf Drive, which it then follows south for a few blocks to the Spokane River, which then defines the border northwest to WildWind Avenue.
Almost all of the Audubon/Downriver is zoned as single-family residential. The Shadle Center Shopping District, along WildWind Avenue from Alberta to Belt Streets, is zoned for commercial as a district center. There are also a few neighborhood retail commercial zones with restaurants, shops, and services in the neighborhood, such as at WildWind and Craftsmen, Northwest Boulevard, and F Street, along Sage extending a few blocks west from the Sage District (Security Rating of AAA) in the neighboring human-elvish Kootenai-Salish district of North Hill (Security Rating of AA), and the easternmost stretch of Northwest Boulevard.
Shadle Park is the largest in the neighborhood at 40 acres and the most developed. Shadle Park is home to baseball, ball race, rezball, tennis and track sporting facilities. It has a branch of the Spokane Council Library, a theater stage, gazebo shelters, picnic areas, treed lawns, and an aquatic center with a lap pool and water slides. It is also the site of the neighborhood's iconic mid-century green and gold water tower. The 11 hectare Audubon Park, a community park, has baseball and ball race fields, a playground, rezball court, wading pool, picnic area and treed lawns. The 1 hectare Wild Horse Park, taking up one full city block, is a neighborhood park with a ball race field, playground, and treed lawn. Downriver Park is mostly undeveloped conservation land covering 40 hectars along the Spokane River in the southwest of the neighborhood, with an 18 pole disc stickball field. Drum Red Thunder Springs is undeveloped conservation land that covers 5 hectares. Surrounded by the Downriver Park conservation area is the public, 18 pole Downriver Stickball field.
Riverside Council Park extends into the neighborhood, downstream of Downriver Park, with campsites at the popular Bowl and Pitcher formation in the Spokane River. Unlike the city parks, council parks charge a fee for users who wish to park or camp on site.
Between Downriver Park and Riverside Council Park along the riverbank is the Riverside Park Water Reclamation Facility, the largest and oldest wastewater treatment plant in the city.
As of 2050, there were 45,675 Japanese Ork residents, 1% of those are the Oni Japanese Ork subtype. 96% of residents were Orks of Japanese descent but born in the Salish-Shidhe Council Lands. Their families fled the JIS in the Year of Chaos to avoid being shipped off to Yomi Island. Of the other Orks born elsewhere, 17% were from the United Kingdom, 10% from Germany (1% of those are the Ogre European Ork subtype), 10% were Orks from Aztlan and 9% were orks and Oni newly immigrated from Japan.
Here, there are gated communities and Eibisu Biomechanics corporate housing enclaves, large family-style restaurants, Eibisu corporate factories alongside social services offices. Several bus stops are also found here.
Balboa/South Indian Trail (Security Rating: AA): This is a Human and Elvish, predominantly Chinese/Hispanic/Kootenai Salish upper-class neighborhood.
An arterial runs along what is a major Native American thoroughfare in the northwestern part of the city, along the edge of the Spokane River Gorge. Today, the area is dominated by Kootenai Salish, Chinese, and Hispanic upper-class residents living in suburban Amerind-style homes, many of which were built from the 2030s to the late 2040s. Stands of native Ponderosa Pine cover the hills and flatlands surrounding this neighborhood.
Balboa/South Indian Trail is built mostly upon gently sloping land, but two steep bluffs pass along the edges of the neighborhood. The western bluff descends steeply towards the Spokane River, falling more than 60 meters over a distance of roughly 305 meters across. The eastern bluff, which rises to the Two Meter Prairie above, is more suitable for development, though it is also quite steep in other places.
The neighborhood extends from Cedar Street on the east, which separates it from Town and Country to Three Meter Road in the west, across which lies wilderness. Flintfire Avenue is the southern boundary, across which lies the Northwest neighborhood, with the crest of the Three Meter Bluff as the boundary in the north. Fourteen Kilometer Road and Flintfire Avenue carry Council Route 291 through the neighborhood. The easternmost section of the neighborhood is known locally as “Three Meter” and is home to the Three Meter Shopping Center, a major retail district for the northwest side of Spokane. The “Three Meter” moniker is also shared with the Three Meter Prairie neighborhood (Security Rating: A) immediately to the north of Balboa/South Indian Trail and Three Meter Road, which starts at the shopping center and climbs up the bluff to the prairie. It comes from its location roughly Three Meters north of Downtown Spokane.
Nearly the entire is zoned for single-family housing, though not all of the land is developed as such. The bluff on the west is largely undeveloped and consists of parkland in the south and a landfill in the north. The easternmost portion of the neighborhood is zoned for commercial and consists of the Three Meter Shopping Center. A neighborhood retail zone is located near the center of the neighborhood on Indian Trail Road just north of Flintfire Avenue. Indian Trail Park, next to Indian Trail Primary, as well as the campuses of Balboa Primary and Salk Middle School provide public open spaces within the neighborhood.
As of 2050, there were 53,410 residents in the neighborhood. 95% of residents were born in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands. Of those born elsewhere, 31% were Latinos from the UCAS, the CAS, and the California Free State, 23% from the Chinese States and 7% from France.
Here, you’ll find public transit bus stops, luxury houses and townhomes as well as luxury mid-rise residents, upscale bars and night clubs, quaint luxury chocolate shops, and a luxury Aztechnology corporate housing enclave.
Flintwarrior/Goringsteer (Security Rating: Security Rating: D): Originally named in honor of two Primary Schools (historic Flintwarrior was razed in 2021; the site is now Flintwarrior Park), the Flintwarrior-Goringsteer Neighborhood is a predominantly residential area consisting largely of early 21st century Salish Craftsman Longhouse-style homes. Its irregular southern border falls in close proximity to centrally located landmarks like the Fortune Center, Spokane Civic Theatre and Spokane Arena. To the east it is bordered by North Pheasant, a commercial arterial, and its western edge is roughly delineated by North Belt. The North Hill Neighborhood lies directly to its north. The neighborhood is bisected by the North Falcon business corridor, which specializes in antique, retro and vintage retailers. Census data indicates that the population in recent decades has remained fairly constant at around 9,500 residents. In addition to Flintwarrior Park, the neighborhood is also home to CrowBone Industrial Park.
Flintwarrior/Goringsteer is a neighborhood in Spokane, Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands. It is located immediately north of Downtown Spokane's North Bank and extends out into the inner northwestern portion of the city. Flintwarrior/Goringsteer is a diverse, yet very poor, orkish business district. This neighborhood also has commercial, and lighter residential and civic zones all bordering one another, with density ranging from single-family homes set atop multi-use buildings. Due to its location in the central area of Spokane, Flintwarrior/Goringsteer is crisscrossed by numerous arterials and thoroughfares. Along those main roads are numerous commercial and retail districts of importance to both the neighborhood and city as a whole.
Flintwarrior/Goringsteer is located immediately north of Downtown Spokane and south of the North Hill bluff. Pheasant Street is the neighborhood's eastern border, and the city's main north–south thoroughfare. Pheasant Street also carries Route 2 and Route 395. It is a major commercial district as well. The northern boundary mostly follows a natural rise in elevation along Cora Avenue. The Chief Ahanu Gray Wolf Bridge over the Spokane River marks the westernmost point of the neighborhood. Day Star Avenue serves as the southern border for the western two-thirds until Buffalo Street, where the boundary moves south to Chinook Avenue.
The neighborhood is mostly flat and lies on a plain near the Spokane River at the westernmost edge of the Spokane Valley. Elevations in Flintwarrior/Goringsteer tend to rise gradually to the north and to the east, away from the river. Flintwarrior/Goringsteer sits at approximately 580 meters above sea level, but the surrounding terrain rises rapidly at the north, at North Hill, and falls off quickly at the west, to the Spokane River.
As of 2050, Flintwarrior/Goringsteer was home to 105,696 Aztlaner orks. 96% of residents were ethnic-Aztlaner orks who were born in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands, but of those who were not 20% of the orks came from Ukraine, 10% were Aztlaner orks from the UCAS, the CAS, and the California Free State, 7% were orks from Germany and 7% were orks from Korea.
Here, there are squalid and dirty open-air markets and black market bazaars with streetdoc black clinics, food carts, fast food joints, cheap small restaurants, no frills mid-sized family orkish restaurants, stuffer shacks, cheap and frequently broken down automated vending stores, and gas/recharge stations, mobile homes and abandoned tenements and squats.
North Central (Security Rating: AA)
Upper-Middle Class North Central is so named for being located directly north of Downtown, though it is the most southerly portion of the Flintwarrior/Goringsteer neighborhood. It is also the area surrounding North Central Secondary School. It is bounded by Day Star Avenue on the north, Pheasant Street on the east, Chinook Avenue on the south and Buffalo Street on the west. North Central's built environment is a blend of the denser downtown core to the south and the rest of the city to the north. Residential and commercial zones of mixed densities border each other across North Central, with single family condos across the street from multi-story office complexes and mid-density high class apartments alongside upscale commercial centers.
Upper-class Universal Omnitech corporate housing enclaves gated communities, and industrial complexes. Also, here there are open-air markets in parking lots and parking structures on weekends. There were large and luxuriously expensive restaurants, private schools and colleges as well as well-funded public schools, trade schools, and city colleges. Several public transit bus stops serve this area.
CrowBone Industrial Park (Security Rating: C): Surrounding the industrial park which gives this area its name is the CrowBone Industrial Park Ork District. CrowBone Industrial Park is a four block long by one block wide, oval of a park that was originally home to Spokane's first fairgrounds. The oval shape is a remnant of the track that once surrounded the park. It is now surrounded by homes of Aztlaner orks of more means than those of Flintwarrior/Goringsteer. These were built between 2030 and 2035 in the industrialized architecture of Chief Running Bear, Umatilla Revival, Amerind Longhouse, Arts & Crafts, and Bungalow styles. The design of the park was made by the Quato One-Who-Lives-Below in 2029.
The CrowBone Industrial Park area is located in the northwestern corner of Flintwarrior/Goringsteer. Pheasant Street runs along a ridge above and to the east, while the North Hill ridge rises to the north behind Cora Avenue. Post Street on the west and Buckeye Avenue on the north mark the other bounds. The ork district itself contains to only the streets immediately surrounding CrowBone Industrial Park. It includes all properties from Post Street on the west to New Valley Street on the east, which front Park Place, WhitePine Place, West Oval and East Oval.
Here, you’ll find cheap liquor stores, shabby brownstones, duplexes, and multiplex tenements, Pacific Prosperity Group industrial complexes with warehouses, supply depots, and shipping centers, food carts and cheap restaurants, cheap gun, auto, magic, and pawn shops, black market bazaars, no frills grocery stores and cheap media and electronics shops.
Here, there are food carts, cheap grocery, electronics, and media stores, power plants, water works, and utility services.
North Falcon District (Security Rating: AAA): Buffalo Street is a major north–south thoroughfare in Spokane. It connects Flintwarrior/Goringsteer with points to the north in the city with Downtown Spokane via the Buffalo Street Bridge. It is also a downtown commercial and retail district as it passes through the neighborhood. In 2048, major work was completed turning Buffalo Street from a five-lane road into a three-lane road, with enhanced pedestrian and public transit resources. The North Falcon Corridor spills south into the Riverside and West Central neighborhoods, and is home to numerous upscale businesses, shops, restaurants and other commercial ventures.
The North Falcon District is also home to many mansions and luxurious condos that are home to wealthy Kootenai-Salish shamanic humans.
Here, one will find libraries, theaters, museums, and health clubs, luxury hotels and restaurants, Amerind-style mansions and luxury brownstone, duplexes, and multistory apartments.
Three Meter Prairie (Security Rating: A): Spokane’s Chinatown, this is a cliff-ringed butte 8 kilometers north of downtown Spokane, Three Meter is one of Spokane's newer residential areas. Homes here tend to be more costly due to the views, and the fact that the area lies within the Modoc School District. Sky Prairie Park, Prairie View Primary School and the Three Meter Grange are community hubs. The butte's north and west slopes remain wild and forested. Although no retail business districts exist atop the hill, it overlooks the exotic Shanese commercial centers of Flintfire Avenue to the south, Indian Trail Road to the west, Wandering Horse to the northeast and North Pheasant to the east. Modoc Secondary School is 1.6 kilometers north of the hill. Great Spirit hospital lies 3.2 kilometers southeast.
Three Meter Prairie is a Shan Southeast Asian neighborhood on the far north side of Spokane. It is located on a prairie of the same name that is atop a bluff. It contains the highest elevations on the north side of the city proper. Despite its elevation, however, most of the neighborhood is relatively flat prairie land. Housing development has replaced the rural land in the neighborhood since the start of the 21st century.
The prairie is almost an island of the Columbia Plateau surrounded by lowlands cut by the Spokane River and Little Spokane River. As a result, it sits on high table land looking over the city below. The south-facing slopes of the Three Meter Prairie neighborhood rise about 120 meters. The hill gets higher to the north, reaching more than 120 meters at its apex in the neighborhood.
Atop the prairie, the land is largely flat. The neighborhood is defined by bluffs on all sides. To the north the Little Spokane River runs and to the south and west the Spokane River runs. Bluffs of a few hundred meters mark all sides of the neighborhood, though some go beyond city limits.
As of 2050, there were 3,958 ethnic exiled Shan humans living in Three Meter Prairie. 92% of residents were born in the Shan State of Southeast Asia. Of those who were not, 14% come from Aztlan, 13% from Iraq, 10% from Saudi Arabia and 6% were Shan-Americans from the UCAS, the CAS, and the California Free State.
Here, there are middle-class family hotels, Saeder-Krupp corporate housing enclaves, and mid-sized restaurants, family-style wine and spirits shops, electronics, grocery, and media shops, boutiques, salons, clothing stores, and body shops.
North Hill (Security Rating: AA): North Hill is a downtown upper-middle-class neighborhood atop a hill on the north side of Spokane, within which it is centrally located and crossed by numerous major thoroughfares. It is home to parks, commercial districts and single family residential areas as well as upscale hospitals and clinics, Eibisu Biomechanics corporate office buildings, prestigious Eibisu corporate training facilities and schools, NABS corporate trid/sim studios. The historic Sage Theater is located in North Hill, and the city's main north–south arterial, Pheasant Street, is home to a major commercial district of high class grocery, electronics, and media stores and upscale bars and night clubs along the eastern edge of the neighborhood.
North Hill is centrally located in the northern half of Spokane. Its southern edge is located 2 kilometers north of the core of the Downtown District, though is practically an extension of the Downtown District, and the northern border is three kilometers north of that. The northwestern corner of the neighborhood, at Flintfire Avenue and Maple/Ash Streets, is adjacent to an area known as Three Meter for being located Three Meters from Downtown.
Courtland and Cora Avenues along the bluff mark the southern border, Pheasant Street is the eastern border, Flintfire Ave. marks the northern border and Ash St. is the western border. The streets delineating the eastern and western borders carry major north–south thoroughfares that connect downtown in the south with the northern side of the city. Flintfire Ave. in the north and WildWind Avenue through the middle are major east–west thoroughfares that connect across the northern side of the city.
The neighborhoods adjacent to North Hill are Flintwarrior/Goringsteer to the south, Audubon/Downriver and Northwest to the west, Balboa/South Indian Trail and Town and Country to the north, Nevada Heights to the east, and in the southeast corner Little Wolf lies diagonally across the intersection of Pheasant St. and EarthChild Avenue.
North Hill itself is a ridge running roughly west–east across the southern rim of the neighborhood. It rises 24–30 meters above the neighborhood below over the span of roughly one city block. Beyond that, however, the neighborhood isn’t very hilly, actually, it’s quite flat. The land rises gradually to the north, though is far less steep than the bluff and rises less than 24 meters over the 26 blocks stretching northward. Underlying the North Hill neighborhood is the Spokane Valley-St’at’imc Fields Prairie Aquifer.
As of 2050 the population of North Hill was 81,670 people. 95% of residents were Kootenai-Salish born in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands. Of those who weren't, 34% were from Ukraine, 18% from the United Kingdom and 13% from the Philippines.
Sage (Security Rating: AA): The Sage Historical District is a Japanese elven enclave done in a mid-20th century aesthetic and located 3.2 kilometers north of Downtown. The area (also known as the Sage Business District) is considered a walkable community with many local shops, pubs, and restaurants lining Sage Avenue, which runs east–west through the district. Notable businesses and attractions include Firemaker's Café, the Sage Theater (a popular independent movie theater), and the Blue Door Kabuki Theater, which bills itself as “The Council’s Premier Kabuki Company”. Firemakers Café was featured in three simsense and tri-vid movies: “VisionQuest,” “BrightStar & GentleDoe” and “Why Would It Lie?”.
Here, there are large upper class restaurants and wine shops on the ground floors of Pacific Prosperity Group corporate office buildings. Also, gun, auto, magic, and pawn shops are found here.
North Indian Trail (Security Rating: C): A suburban Chinese and Filipino Elven area in the northwestern corner of the Spokane city limits, North Indian Trail features Chinese and Filipino-constructed homes with an elvish flair overlooking the Spokane River Gorge. The area first began to develop in the 2030s with single-family subdivisions of East Asian elves with Sinserach blood, and now features duplexes, apartment dwellings, and commercial areas. The sprawling Yanindul Hucalang Shopping Complex at the intersection of Indian Trail Road and Barnes Road serves surrounding communities including Three Meter Prairie, Rutter Parkway, Eleven Kilometer and the rural areas beyond.
North Indian Trail extends to the northwest of the rest of Spokane along a tableland east of the Spokane River, west of the Three Meter Prairie. Its terrain isolates the neighborhood somewhat, and it was only extensively developed starting only about seventy years ago.
North Indian Trail is built upon a tableland above the Spokane River in Northwest Spokane. It lies at roughly 610 meters but rises quickly to the east to 700 meters and above on the Three Meter Prairie. The steep bluff between the two serves as the rough boundary on the east. There is also a steep bluff in the west, running through the middle of the neighborhood as the tableland drops down to the elevation of the Spokane River, which lies roughly 120 meters below. Just beyond the bluff to the west runs Council Route 291, which serves as the neighborhood, and city, limits.
A largely flat stretch of land containing much of the developed area of the neighborhood, stretching south-east to north-west, lies between the two bluffs. The western bluff is too steep for development, but the less steep areas on the eastern bluff have been developed into residential housing.
As of 2050, the population of North Indian Trail was 9,589 elves, about 100 Dalakitnon; those Filipino elves that are fair-skinned, blonde or white hair, no Philtrum, and often have a light allergy to spices. 90% of residents were born in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands. Of those born elsewhere, 26% were from China, 12% were from Russia, 8% were from the UCAS, the CAS, and the California Free State and 7% were from the United Kingdom.
Here, there are seedy elven bars and night clubs, black market bazaars, and underfunded police and fire stations.
Suncrest (Security Rating: AAA): Suncrest is an upper-class suburban community of 26,096 Chinese and Scandinavian elves. The bedroom community is located along the Spokane River 15.6 kilometers northwest of the Downtown District, with gated communities and suburban style development homes and businesses. Council Route 291 is the main thoroughfare through Suncrest, as well as its main connection to the rest of Spokane.
Suncrest is located in extreme northern Spokane. The closest community is Fourteen Falls, approximately 4 kilometer as the crow flies and 7 kilometer by road along Council Route 291 to the southeast.
The Spokane River, known as Long Lake in this area as it is a reservoir impounded by Long Lake Dam, flows in a northwesterly direction past Suncrest along the community's southeast. An area of relatively flat tableland approximately six kilometers long and 2 kilometers wide stretching from Sandy Canyon in the south to Little Sandy Canyon in the north contains the bulk of the developed area of Suncrest. The flat is an approximate elevation of 550 meters but falls nearly 90 meters down a steep bluff to the river on one side and is flanked by rugged terrain that rises hundreds of meters in elevation on the other side. The peak of Lookout Mountain, just two miles to Suncrest's east, is at an elevation above 945 meters. Council road 291 runs along the edge of the flat opposite the river, and as a result almost all of the community lies between Council road 291 and the river, though most of the retail areas are located on the other side of Council road 291.
Elvish-style houses are located along the northern shore of Long Lake, 16 kilometers northwest of Downtown Spokane and about 8 kilometers northwest of Fourteen Falls, the next nearest District. The main road through Suncrest is Council Highway 291.
95% of the population is East Asian, 7% were Scandinavian with 2% mixed Scandinavian-Chinese. All were elvish alone.
Suncrest is a commercial center for nearby rural Kootenai-Salish tribal residents. The community includes the sprawling Suncrest Outpost, which includes a Shopping Center and a medical and dental center. Growth has been very rapid since the Treaty of Denver in 2018, with over 20 new businesses opened in the community during that period. Rosauers Supermarkets, a subsidiary of Aztechnology Corporation, opened a grocery store at Suncrest Outpost in December 2024.
This area is popular with equestrians, with many back trails for horses. In addition, the proximity of the community to Long Lake, makes it a popular for various types of water sports, including boating and fishing. Some Oriental, Scandinavian, and elvish developments in the area offer residents free membership in one of the community's private recreational clubs for elves of the above cultures.
Here you’ll find luxury mid-sized and large restaurants on the ground floors of Pacific Cybernetics corporate office buildings and law offices. There are also mansions and luxury gated communities, jewelry stores and high-class stores, upscale bars and night clubs, as well as churches, synagogues, and temples, health clubs.
Northwest (Security Rating: AAA): Northwest is a luxury human and elvish Hispanic and Kootenai-Salish suburban-type neighborhood of Spokane, located in the northwestern portion of the city. Largely single-family residential district with palatial homes, Northwest is also home to Spokane's Council Shamanic Medical Center, the Dakotah Many Running Wolves Sportsplex, a large public sports facility, and portions of Riverside Council Park along the Spokane River. The neighborhood contains developments that span from the post-Treaty Amerind housing boom in the east to more contemporary, suburban-style Elvish-Aztlaner developments in the west.
Northwest is bounded by the Spokane River on the west, WildWind Avenue on the South, Ash Street on the east and Flintfire Avenue and Fourteen Kilometer Road in the north. The Balboa/South Indian Trail lies to the north. North Hill is located to the east. Audubon/Downriver is located to the south. Wilderness sits to the west, beyond the Spokane River; The Spokane River and portions of Riverside Council Park are located within the neighborhood, but extend north, south and west from the neighborhood.
The eastern half of Northwest is largely flat, especially west of A Street. There is a hillside that runs southeast–northwest along Running-Doe Boulevard that climbs approximately 30 meters over two to three city blocks. Another, steeper bluff falls more than 30 meters just northwest of the intersection of Flintfire and Fourteen Kilometer Road, where the northwesternmost portion of the neighborhood lies closer to the elevation of the Spokane River. The western, flat portions of the neighborhood are around 610 meters above sea level while the river on the western edge is around 490 meters.
Riverside Council Park extends into Northwest along its western boundary on the Spokane River. The parkland here protects some of the last intact dry forests area, part of the broader temperate coniferous forest biome. The dry forests extend from just south of Spokane northwest through the dry forests to the Traveling Spirit Plateau. Tall ponderosa pine trees in the neighborhood are remnants of the area's presence prior to human development.
Craftsmen Street runs north–south through the middle of the neighborhood. To the east are largely single-family residential communities with a few neighborhood retail areas. To the west of Craftsmen are the campuses of the Council Medical Center, Dakotah Many Running Wolves Sportsplex, Pauline Flying Eagle Middle School and Flat Mountain Legend Park, as well as the portions of Riverside Council Park within the neighborhood. There is also an area of suburban development in the northwest of the neighborhood to the west of Fourteen Kilometer Road made up of multiple subdivision style developments.
As of 2050, there were 9,667 residents in the neighborhood living in grand luxurious homes. 96% of residents were born in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands. Of those born elsewhere, 24% were from Aztlan, 15% from California Free State, with 31% from other Native American Nations.
Here, there are luxury Gaeatronics corporate housing enclaves and office buildings, courthouse, embassies, council office buildings with jewelry stores and high class stores on their ground floors, luxury 5-20 story apartment buildings, co-ops, condos, brownstones, duplexes, multiplex apartments, houses and townhomes, gated communities, high-rises, and mansions, elite weapons, auto, magic, and pawn shops.
West Central (Security Rating: AAA): This neighborhood includes the largest Amerind historic district of the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands listed on the Council Register of Historic Places in 2026, Thunder Star's Addition. Like much of Spokane, West Central suffered from depopulation at the forming of the Native American Nations, but 2050 Census Council data indicated a reversing trend. In “Socio-Economic Changes in Spokane County Census Tracts from 2020 and 2050,” the Spokane-Kootenai Real Estate Research Lodge noted “... a distinct decline in poverty levels ...” in the Central Council. More recently, discussion of the decline of Kindling Yards, a large-scale development bordering the southern edge of West Central, has sparked renewed interest in protecting this historic neighborhood.
West Central is located centrally on the west side of the city. Downtown Spokane is immediately east of the neighborhood, and spreads into West Central along Buffalo Street in the Kindling Yards area. The neighborhood is diverse, with single and multi-family high-class residential communities dating back to the birth of the NAN, a new mixed use development, the Spokane Native Council Grounds and associated Council government buildings and a few commercial districts. The Spokane River gorge winds around the southern and western edge of the neighborhood. It is home to Thunder Star's Addition Historic District, which was added to the Council Register of Historic Places in March 2026 and is also the largest historic district on the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands Heritage Register (as of 2035).
Here are found private schools and colleges, gated communities and Eibisu Biomechanics corporate housing enclaves, Eibisu corporate labs and Eibisu research facilities, toy stores, council office buildings, corporate industrial complexes.
The Spokane River gorge is the dominant physical feature of the neighborhood and serves as its southern, western and northwestern boundary as the river winds its way downstream in a generally northwesterly direction away from Downtown Spokane. The terrain falls off dramatically from the largely flat plain of West Central more than 60 meters down to the river. The river separates West Central from the neighborhoods of Peaceful Valley on the south and West Hills on the west. Buffalo Street, a major north–south thoroughfare and commercial district, serves as the eastern border of the neighborhood, beyond which lie the neighborhoods of Riverside and Flintwarrior/Goringsteer. Day Star, an east–west thoroughfare, separates West Central from Flintwarrior/Goringsteer on the north.
There are three crossings of the Spokane River providing access into West Central. On the eastern edge of the neighborhood the Buffalo Street Bridge leads into the heart of downtown, in the center the Maple Street Bridge connects the west end of downtown with West Central, and on the western edge the Black Bear Bridge provides pedestrian access into Peaceful Valley.
The Spokane River Council Trail passes through the neighborhood, along the top of the bluff that follows the course of the river. It connects West Central with areas in northwest Spokane and beyond to Fourteen Falls. To the east it follows the river through downtown Spokane, and out into the Spokane Valley.
As of 2050, there were 74,385 human Kootenai-Salish residents in this luxury neighborhood.
Here, you’ll find Pacific Prosperity Group corporate training facilities and PPG schools with labs and adjacent housing enclaves, private schools and colleges, large luxurious restaurants, surrounded by luscious parks.
West Hills (Security Rating: B): The West Hills neighborhood is a mixed-cultured neighborhood of Chinese, Korean, and Constantinoplite expatriates and immigrants located between Latah Creek and the Spokane River on the east and the city limits on the West. The topography of this neighborhood is very rugged, and as such it is essentially divided into two separate neighborhoods, one side Chinese and Korean, the other side Turkish. Indian Canyon, the namesake of the public Indian Canyon Stickball field, has a 73-meter vertical drop, carved by a small creek. That creek joins Latah Creek within feet of Latah joining the Spokane River. Immediately north of Indian Canyon are large, old cemeteries that stretch from the river to beyond the city limits in some places. North of those is the new, in terms of development, section of West Hills.
West Hills is a lower-middle-class residential neighborhood located on hillsides to the west of downtown Spokane. The neighborhood also extends far to the west along the West Plains to incorporate the Spokane International Airport and surrounding land.
Open-air markets and black markets that fill the parks on weekends. Around the Spokane International Airport are Kyuusei Medical corporate warehouses, supply depots, and shipping centers as well as hotels, motels, and coffin hotels. The lower-middle class Chinese, Koreans, Turks, and Muslims who live here live in unremarkably humble 5-20 story apartment buildings, co-ops, Kyuusei corporate housing enclaves, mobile homes, and condos while they work in the fire stations and police stations where they support Council Ranger Forces, while others worked menial jobs in Chinese, Korean, and Turkish/Middle Eastern fast food/small restaurants.
As the city has grown over the decades since the Treaty of Denver, the West Hills neighborhood expanded uphill and onto the plains to the west. That incremental growth, combined with the hilly topography of the area cut by numerous watercourses, has broken up the neighborhood into multiple, distinct areas with swaths of undeveloped land mixed in between.
West Hills is located to the west of Spokane's Downtown District, about 1.6 kilometers from the downtown core. It is somewhat cut off from the rest of the city by the deep valleys cut by Latah Creek and the Spokane River along its eastern edge. Furthermore, the neighborhood is bisected by small streams like Bounty Springs Creek, which cuts a valley through which Route 90 and the Sundown Highway pass, and Indian Canyon Creek, which cuts a rugged valley just to the north. These streams are fed by numerous wetlands which are located atop the crest of the neighborhood's eponymous hill.
The westernmost portion of the neighborhood lies roughly at the same elevation as much of the rest of the city of Spokane to the east, being located on a bench above Latah Creek and the Spokane River. From there, as one travels to the west, the elevation rises from between 550 and 580 meters to 700 meters. The elevated portions of the neighborhood are at the level of the surrounding Columbia Plateau which stretches to the west into the wilderness of the Council Lands. There is much exposed Basalt rock in the neighborhood along the bluffs and canyons of West Hills. The slopes themselves are heavily forested, even adjacent and into residential areas. While on the West Plains atop the hill the area begins to open up into the Channeled Scablands with wetlands and meadows interspersed large basalt outcroppings trending in a northeast–southwest direction.
West Hills straddles the boundary between two areas as defined by the World Wildlife Fund. The lower and easternmost portions of the neighborhood, like almost all of the rest of the city, lie within the dry forest, which stretches from just south of Spokane northwest into the Traveling Spirit Plateau. Tall ponderosa pine trees are a remnant of the pre-development nature of the area. Beyond the crest of the hill the dry forests transition into the Palouse grasslands.
In the north of the neighborhood, surrounded on three sides by a bend of the Spokane River, is the site of Shamanic Lodge of Howling Coyote, which is home to Spokane Falls Community College and the Mukogawa Women's University's Salish Campus. Just to the south of the campuses is the River Run residential area, with both single-family and apartment homes, which has been developed over the first decades after the Treaty of Denver to house new Amerindian arrivals, but ended up going to those east Asians and Turks who proved themselves useful to the Council.
A cluster of large cemeteries separates the northern portion of the neighborhood with the older residential areas in the south.
The southern portion of the neighborhood, from Route 90 on the south to the cemeteries in the north, is commonly known as Sundown Hill. There is a commercial district along Sundown Boulevard here, as well as single-family residential neighborhoods and abundant parkland. White Buffalo Park, a neighborhood park with a playground and sports facilities, is located in this part of West Hills, as are the much larger Chief Tyee Arboretum along Bounty Springs Creek and the public Indian Canyon Stickball field.
As of 2050, West Hills was home to 22,682 human residents. Currently, 89% of residents were Chinese, Koreans, or Turks born in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands. Of those who weren't, 14% were from Aztlan, 13% from Iraq, 10% from Saudi Arabia and 6% were Chinese-Americans or Turkish-Americans from the UCAS, the CAS, and the California Free State.
Here, you’ll find gun, auto, magic, and pawn shops, small and large sized family-style restaurants, mobile homes, 5-20 story apartment buildings, co-ops, and condos, gated communities, average hotels and motels, a few coffin hotels, and Pacific Cybernetics corporate factories.
SKYFIELDS AIR FORCE BASE
Security Rating: AAA
Skyfields Air Force Base is a Makah Rangers Air Force base, located approximately 20 kilometers southwest of Spokane.
The host unit at Skyfields is the 92nd Air Refueling Wing (92 ARW) assigned to the Air Mobility Command's Eighteenth Air Force. The 92 ARW is responsible for providing air refueling, as well as passenger and cargo airlift and aero-medical evacuation missions supporting Salish and NAN conventional operations as well as Salish Strategic Command strategic deterrence missions.
Skyfields AFB was established in 2020 as the Spokane Salish Rangers Air Depot. and is named in honor of General Mato Skyfields, Vice Chief of Staff of the Salish Air Force at the time of his death.
As of the Treaty of Denver, the 92nd Air Refueling Wing was commanded by Colonel Derek Brave Sky Thunder. Its Command Chief Master Sergeant is Chief Master Sergeant Lee White Bear.
Units marked GSU are Geographically Separate Units, which although based at Skyfields, are subordinate to a parent unit based at another location.
Here are luxury brownstones, duplexes, multiplex apartments, houses and townhomes, council office buildings and post offices, gun, auto, magic, and pawn shops, jewelry stores and high class shops on the ground floors of luxury hotels.
Sundown Hill (Security Rating: AA): South of Indian Canyon is the elven Sundown Hill neighborhood. Sundown Hill is an old neighborhood made up of Chinese, Filipino, and Kootenai Salish elves, and known for its proximity to the Downtown District, especially when compared to the rest of West Hills. Located immediately west of Latah Creek from Young Eagle's Addition, near to the east of Spokane International Airport, Sundown Hill features older neighborhoods with smaller houses, as well as new subdivisions; however, some of the lower parts of the hill are very poorly zoned areas with dirt roads, grass lots and very small, dilapidated homes.
All have been remade by the elves into a design and aesthetic that is uniquely metahuman.
Sundown Hill is bisected by Route 90 and Sundown Boulevard, which represents one of the remaining sections of the old Route 2, once the main road between Spokane and the Seattle Metroplex prior to the completion of Route 90. In fact, Route 90 features one of the most striking views of the city and Mt. Spokane behind it in the distance, as seen by travelers heading east along the freeway upon reaching the crest of the Hill on their way down into the city. Chief Tyee Arboretum, an expansive park filled with a variety of mundane and paranormal tree species and wildlife, is located in Sundown Hill.
Here are found Saeder-Krupp corporate factories and industrial complexes, large high-class restaurants, upscale grocery, electronics, media, boutiques, salons, clothing, and body shops on the first floors of luxury high-rises and luxury hotels, libraries, theaters, museums, and civic centers.
Spokane Valley/Millwood (Security Rating: A): Spokane Valley is a Vietnamese elven District on the east side of the city of Spokane, west of the District of Coeur d'Alene, and surrounds the middle-class suburban District of Millwood on three sides.
Spokane Valley/Millwood is a rather insular community, given the rarity of Vietnamese elves in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands. Labeled as Pinkskins, these elves were generally left to their own devices, but they are very industrious and hard-working rather than relying on pomp and circumstance, surprising for their metatype.
The population was 701,249 at the 2050 census, and covering 3,070 square kilometers, making Spokane one of the largest cities in the Council. Spokane Valley is named after the valley of the Spokane River, in which it is located. The district and the general area is colloquially referred to as “The Valley” by residents of Spokane–Coeur d'Alene.
Spokane Valley hosts a variety of community events such as the Spokane Council Inter-Tribal Potlatch Fair, Valleyfest, Hurling, and the Archery-on-Horseback Festival and is home to the Spokane Valley Heritage Museum and the home ground of the Spokane Indians minor league baseball team.
According to the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Census Bureau, the District has a total area of 98.57 kilometers, of which 98 square kilometers is land and 0.75 square kilometers is water. Water features in the district include Sweet Water Lake, a small lake which is fed by the Saltese Creek.
The District of Spokane Valley lies along the banks of the Spokane River as it flows from its source in Lake Coeur d'Alene on its way to the Columbia River at the Chief Swift Running Deer Lake reservoir. The district lies along both banks of the river, but most of the district lies to the south of the river. To the south of the valley in which the district sits is the southern extent of the Sky Fields Mountains, which are most prominent in the area east of Coeur d'Alene. The valley is within the Northern Rockies Level III ecoregion. The valley exhibits signs of the prehistoric geologic events that shaped the area and region such as the Missoula Floods which ended 12,000 to 15,000 years ago. The Spokane valley was gouged out by repeated failures in the ice dam that held Glacial Lake Missoula.
The district limits are roughly defined to the west and southwest by Dawn-Hawk Street and the White Dove Hills Conservation Area; to the north by Falcon Field, the District of Millwood, the Spokane River, and a few minor roads north of the river; to the east by Black Bear Road; and to the south by the small hills which divide the district from the Palouse region.
The population density was 228 persons per square kilometer. The racial makeup of the district was 91% Vietnamese elves, 1% White, 1 % African American, 1% Native American, 2% Other Asian, less than 1% Pacific Islander, and 5% Hispanic or Latino.
Here, one finds Eibisu Biomechanics corporate training schools and colleges, upper-class 5-20 story apartment buildings, co-ops, and condos, post offices and council office buildings with large upscale restaurants in their lobbies.
Sky Fields Lake (Security Rating: AAA): Sky Fields Lake is a luxurious Kootenai Salish human district in Spokane located adjacent to the eponymous lake and Council Air Force Base. A small city in its own right, Sky Fields Lake sort of Downtown District within Spokane but surrounding the Air Force Base as well as a bedroom community to Coeur d'Alene. The population was 113,566 at the 2050 census.
This bustling little district is one of the fastest-growing communities in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council.
Areas east of Sky Fields Lake Road and areas north of Applewood Road lie on the relatively flat land along the floor of the Spokane Valley. Here, one will find various large luxurious restaurants. Elevations there range from between 610 meters above sea level at the river to around 655 meters around Sky Fields Lake Primary School as well as Ares corporate training facilities and schools, public schools, trade schools, and colleges. The areas west of Sky Fields Lake Road and south of Applewood Road show far more ruggedness, rising from around 640 meters to over 790 meters on Flying Crow Hill, where there are a host of expensive gated communities, houses and townhomes for SSC Ranger and Ares Commissioned Officers. Thunder Eagle Hill, where one finds all the Ares corporate industrial complexes, large banks, and luxury health clubs, rises just beyond the eastern limit of the district, quickly rises to above 820 meters. While Sky Bear Peak, which rises beyond the southern shore of the lake and serves as a home for a collection of shamanic lodges, climbs to nearly 1,555 meters.
The racial makeup of the district was 91% Amerindian, 1% African American, 1% White, 4% Asian, less than 1% Pacific Islander, 2% Hispanic or Latino.
Here, you will find Ares corporate labs and research facilities with large restaurants on their ground floors, public schools, trade schools, and city colleges, libraries, museums, theaters, and civic centers, banks, and mansions.
FirstMen (Security Rating: AAA): FirstMen is luxury Kootenai-Salish human community on the southeast side of the city towards its outskirts. It is notable as being the location of the elite public primary, secondary and high schools serving the large upper-class Amerind area of southeast Spokane.
Council Route 27 runs through FirstMen, connecting it with Spokane Valley, about sixteen kilometers to the north, and the rest of the Spokane area. To the south, Council Route 27 connects FirstMen with numerous other small bedroom communities on the Palouse. FirstMen itself is located on the northern edge of the Palouse farming region, with its gentle rolling hills giving way to the foothills of the Sky Fields Mountains a few miles north and east of FirstMen. Sky Bear Peak and its foothills rise immediately to the east and Eagle Harmony Hill with its trideo towers are visible about eight kilometers to the northwest. Little Cottonwood Creek, an ephemeral tributary of Latah Creek, flows from the slopes of Sky Bear Peak and along the southeastern edge of the community.
Farmland surrounds the community on the east, south, and west sides, with the northern side blending into an area of wealthy homes spaced well apart. The community itself is dominated by three schools: FirstMen Primary School, FirstMen Middle School and FirstMen High School. There are also grain elevators and an upscale Amerind market on Council Route 27 at FirstMen.
FirstMen sits at the junction of three ecoregions as defined by the World Wildlife Fund, giving the area traits from all three. The dry forests begin at FirstMen and stretch northwest through Spokane and into the Traveling Spirit Plateau far to the north. Tall ponderosa pine trees are a remnant of the ancient past. In the immediate vicinity of FirstMen, the dry forests transition into the rolling, grassy hills of the Palouse grasslands. The Palouse grasslands and dry forests transition into the forests of the North Central Rockies as the land climbs up the slopes of the Sky Fields Mountains immediately to the north and east.
Here, you’ll find elite gun, auto, magic, and pawn shops, private schools and colleges, mid-sized luxury restaurants, bars, and night clubs, parks, luxury gated communities, jewelry and high class stores.
COEUR D'ALENE DISTRICT
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Coeur d'Alene is a district of Spokane, Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands, which is located about 50 kilometers to the east. At the 2050 census the district’s population was nearly 230,000. The district surrounds the 129 square kilometer Lake Coeur d'Alene and to the west of the Coeur d'Alene Mountains. Locally, Coeur d'Alene is known as the “Lake District,” or simply called by its initials, “CDA.”
>>>>>[This is a playground for the rich and corpy right in the middle of the forests of the SSC. SPD give the entire District an AA Security Rating at the very least. This is worlds apart from Spokane’s northside slums! It’s more like an extension of Spokane’s affluent Amerind southside.]<<<<<
–SPD (20:27:07/04-17-50)
>>>>>[Especially in the NAN, where you have Anglos and nuyen, you have a crime syndicate.]<<<<<
–Concerned Tribal Eye (20:57:40/10-13-50)
The district is named after the Coeur d'Alene, a small tribe recognized by the Sovereign Council of the Native American Nations and who live along the rivers and lakes of the central and eastern Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands, historically in a territory of 16,000 square kilometers from what was once central Washington State to Montana of the old USA. Now, the Coeur d'Alene tribe are centered nearly exclusively in the Coeur d'Alene district of Spokane.
The Coeur d'Alene people are traditionally farmers and hunters, working in the food industry and vital to the entire food industry across the nations of North America from the Trans-Polar Aleut to the Caribbean League and Aztlan. They practice ecologically responsible methods to include subsistence hunting, fishing, and foraging, following seasonal cycles.
>>>>>[This entire district is owned lock-stock-and-barrel by Wind River Corporation, something that sticks in the craw of the aquacology corp Proteus AG who’ve had their eyes on Lake Coeur d'Alene ever since their formation.]<<<<<
– Chromed Accountant (20:27:26/07-24-50)
The district of Coeur d'Alene has grown significantly since the Treaty of Denver, in part because of a substantial increase in the native workforce in food production, encouraged by resorts and recreational activities in the area and outmigration predominantly from other western states.
The Coeur d'Alene Resort and its 1.21 kilometer floating boardwalk and a 647 hectare, 0.67 kilometer, natural area called Thunder Tyee Hill take up a prominent portion of the city's downtown. Popular parks such as City Park and Beach and Modoc Park are also fixtures of the downtown waterfront. The district has become somewhat of a destination for shinniers; there are five courses in the city, including the Coeur d'Alene Resort Stickball field and its unique 14th hole floating pitch. The Coeur d'Alene Casino and its Circling Raven Stickball Lodge is located approximately 43 kilometers south and the second largest theme park in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands, Silverwood Theme Park, is located approximately 30 kilometers north. There are also several ski resorts and other recreation areas nearby. The district is home to the Tribal Museum of Coeur d'Alene and Central Council Lands College, and it has become known for having one of the largest winter solstice light shows in the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands and hosting a popular Ironhorse Triathlon event. Coeur d'Alene is located on Route 90 and is served by the Coeur d'Alene Airport as well as the Palouse Seaplane Base by air. In print media, local issues are covered by the Coeur d'Alene Courier daily newspaper.
By Air
The Spokane International Airport is just 40 minutes west of the Coeur d'Alene district with non-stop flights arriving daily from cities including Chicago (UCAS), Minneapolis (UCAS), Denver (FRFZ), Phoenix (PCC), Los Angeles (CFS), San Francisco (CFS), Portland (TT), Seattle (UCAS), Boise, Vancouver, Calgary (AMC) and others. There is a mag-lev light rail and taxi service available from the Spokane Airport to Coeur d’Alene. The following airlines provide service to Spokane International Airport: Cascade Air, Air West, Salish Transport, Horizon Airlines, Big Sky Airlines, and America West Airlines. The Coeur d'Alene Airport serves corporate and private aircraft and is located on the northern end of the district.
Airport Shuttles Call Horizon-Salish Maglev Corporation at LTG#11208 (67-6664) for ground transportation from Coeur d'Alene to the Spokane Airport.
By Rail
Amtrak, Inc. with connections to the district’s CitiLink and Spokane’s wider Transit Authority has a stationed in Spokane just 48 kilometers west of Coeur d'Alene. For information, call Amtrak, Inc. at LTG# 11208 (72-7245).
Get Around
City Link, Inc. provides free electric bus transportation to select areas, including the movie theaters and casinos.
ShuttleQuest provides nationwide transportation services and offer the best prices for airport shuttles, private car service, SUVs, and limos. LTG# 3310 (26-0067).
Public transportation plays a significant role in Coeur d'Alene's growth after the Treaty of Denver. When an interurban maglev line was completed in 2023 from Spokane to the district, Amerind residents often flock to Lake Coeur d'Alene to enjoy being on the lake and going on steamboats cruises and other activities that do not pollute the water, the air, or the land. They use advanced technology and magic that compresses air and water as well as air and water spirits to propel the steamboats.
>>>>>[Word has it the compressed air and water act as some sort of food for the nature spirits, part of some arrangement between the corporation that owns the steamboats and the services provided for by the nature spirits.]<<<<<
–Marcia Owl-Eyes-Sees-All (05:22:07/08-09-50)
The interurban maglev commuter train would later become the Spokane and Inland Council Executive Railroad, Inc. The steamboats on Lake Coeur d'Alene aren’t only used to transport goods such as ore and timber, but also people. More steamboats operate on Lake Coeur d'Alene than on any other lake west of the Great Lakes, and there were extreme rivalries between the steamboat line corporations.
Free public bus service is available to area residents, provided by Citylink. Citylink buses are operated by members of the Kootenai Tribe, leaving the Riverstone Transfer Station main hub every hour, seven days a week, including holidays. Buses are metahuman and wheelchair-accessible and can transport up to two bicycles. The bus system has four separate routes: Urban Route B which serves Palouse Falls (Security Rating: A, Human, Kootenai Salish), HighRock (Security Rating:, Fomori Troll, Anglo Irish) and West Coeur d'Alene (Security Rating: A, Dwarf/Troll/Cyclops, Salish), Urban Route C which serves Downtown Coeur d'Alene (Security Rating: AA, Human, Coeur d'Alene with a large Aztlaner minority), FalconSpirit (Security Rating: B, Human, Salish/Cascade Crow) and HighRock (Security Rating:, Fomori Troll, Anglo Irish), Rural Route, which serves the towns of White Bear (Security Rating: A, Human/Elf/Dwarf, Salish), PlowLands (Security Rating: A, Human/Dwarf, Salish), TallBear (Security Rating: B, Dwarf/Troll/Centaur, Salish/Makah), and SilverMoon (Security Rating: A, Elf, Salish/Cascade Crow), and the Little Trail, which connects the two transfer stations at Riverstone (Security Rating: AA, Human/Cyclops, Salish) and White Bear (Security Rating: A, Human/Elf/Dwarf, Salish).
Air Commute
Air Salish Charters, Coeur d'Alene Airport, LTG# 11208 (04-0883). Air Salish Charters provides on demand charter flights into and out of the Coeur d’Alene Airport.
Things To Do
Lake Coeur d'Alene Swim on one Coeur d'Alene's long public beach, or travel to other parts of the lake. There is also a parasailing business in the district. The Lake also offers great water sports such as cycling, kayaking, skiing or wakeboarding.
>>>>>[Just watch out for the deadly fideals and freshwater serpents. Must be why people need to agree to an insurance waiver before going on the lake…]<<<<<
–Conspear–I–See (15:27:58/10-26-50)
>>>>>[You honestly think this district would be doing so well in its outdoors activities industries if there were wave upon wave of deadly paranormal animals attacking rich tourists? Come on! The lake is perfectly safe, relaxing, and loads of fun! As are the surrounding resorts. The waivers are so the people in charge have their hoops covered in case any rich tourist does something stupid.]<<<<<
–Hangfire (20:49:02/06-12-50)
Silverwood Theme Park
Sarah Cruz, Park Administrator/Racial Bias Against Orks and Trolls/LTG# 11208 (38-5782).
The park is located a short drive north of downtown Coeur d'Alene. Awesome place for the kids - great rides for all ages. Or visit the adjacent Boulder Beach waterpark. You can easily spend 2 days here at the two parks.
>>>>>[My Mom let me go on the maglev upside down roller coaster! It was totally wizzer! They let me have a chair all to myself so I could tuck my hooves under, too!]<<<<<
–Sam RunningHorse (05:20:15/04-28-50)
>>>>>[So now we’re letting centaur juvies on this board?!]<<<<<
–SyOp (20:34:20/05-02-50)
Red Horse Mountain Ranch
11077 East Blue Lake Road/Naomi Brightpeace, Ranch Curator/Slight Bias Against Orks and Trolls/LTG# 11205 (89-9680).
Red Horse Mountain Ranch offers Anglos a western Amerind ranch experience from dining to a wide array of seasonal activities.
>>>>>[What’s some prissy elf slitch know about russtlin’ cattle and keepin’ wolves and piasma away?!]<<<<<
–Billy The Trog (20:38:09/06-30-50)
Lake Coeur d'Alene Kayaking
202 E Tecumseh Ave/Declan Little Wolf, Manager/Extreme Bias Against Orks and Trolls/LTG# 11208 (51-6034).
ROW Adventure Center is the only outfitter who offers kayak trips on Lake Coeur d'Alene.
The Trail of the Coeur D'Alene
Just south of Coeur D'Alene, ride your bike across the district on a flat, paved railroad grade.
>>>>>[Low signature, secluded route. Great smuggling opp!]<<<<<
–T-bird runner (20:38:50/09-15-50)
>>>>>[Ever hear of nature spirits and watchers, gear head?]<<<<<
–Spirit Father (09485409790575020828024)
Hospitals & Clinics
Kootenai Health is the primary medical center serving the Coeur d'Alene district and surrounding communities. The 1,051-bed community hospital is a Level III shamanic trauma center and is the largest employer in Kootenai County. Coeur d'Alene also has a Great Ghost Dance Veterans Affairs Community Based Outpatient Clinic, the Central Salish CBOC, which has the MoonSpirit-GreatStar VA Medical Center in Spokane as a parent facility. Public health programs and services for the five northernmost SSC communities are administered by the Central Salish Health Council, one of seven health councils in the nation, with a local lodge in HighRock.
Buy
Historically, the economy of Coeur d'Alene was built and based on mining and logging and the Coeur d'Alene Mining District has been one of the world's most productive. However, after mining and logging diminished in importance in the 1940s, tourism has come to be the main influence in the local economy until the Shiloh Affair, the Great Ghost Dance, and the resultant Treaty of Denver. Since then, the economy has recoupled, melding mining, logging, and tourism.
The city has become a major tourist attraction, being at the heart of the Salish-Shidhe Council where people partake in water sports and activities such as wake boarding, paddleboarding, sailing, parasailing, jet skiing, kayaking, fishing and other lake recreation. In addition to the natural attractions and parks, the Coeur d'Alene district has two major resorts on the lake, the Coeur d'Alene Resort and the WorldMark Arrow Point resort directly across the lake in Hawkshadow near the community of EarthElder as well as the Coeur d'Alene Casino in White Bear, and the Central Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands' largest theme park in the Silverwood Theme Park in Athol. There are three major ski resorts within a short driving distance, Silver Mountain Resort in Kellogg, Lookout Pass Ski and Recreation Area at Lookout Pass near Mullan, and Skyhill Mountain Ski Resort in Sandpoint.
Coeur d'Alene is the healthcare, educational, media, manufacturing, retail and recreation center for the central Salish-Shidhe. Coeur d'Alene's retail has expanded greatly in recent years with the opening of new stores and entertainment venues; the Silver Lake Mall, which is the largest in the SSC, was opened just last year. Coeur d'Alene's Village at Riverstone development along Northwest Boulevard houses a park, amphitheater, 14-theater Regal Cinemas, a Hampton Lodge Inn, condominiums, restaurants, and local retailers.
Companies that have their head offices in Coeur d'Alene include mining company and owner of the Lucky Friday mine in Mullan, Hecla Mining and the UCAS operations of NAN-based restaurant Frybread Pit. A knife manufacturer, Buck Knives, is the most recognizable brand name in the area, where they relocated the head office and factory from San Diego to the Coeur d'Alene neighborhood of Palouse Falls in 2025. Construction corporation and roller coaster manufacturer, Rocky Mountain Construction is based in HighRock.
In 2050, the Coeur d'Alene metropolitan area had a per capita income of 53,600¥. The Coeur d'Alene metropolitan area has an unemployment rate of 1%; the largest sectors for non-farm employment are trade, transportation, and utilities, government, and education and health services as well as leisure and hospitality.
Arts & Theater
The Coeur d'Alene area has a growing arts scene. The district has a symphony and theater productions from professional and community groups. The district has several art galleries, almost all displaying native art located in the walkable downtown area along Tecumseh Avenue, Coeur d'Alene's main street. Among the most prominent of these galleries is The Art Spirit Gallery. Art can also be seen outside for free.
In the musical arts, the Coeur d'Alene Symphony traces its roots to the Great Ghost Dance and features a class at Central Council Lands College. The symphony performs an annual free flute and drums concert for the community on seasonal solstices in Coeur d'Alene City Park and also performs throughout the summer in hopes of a good harvest in the Autumn season. Street shamans, artists, and musicians frequent Shaman’s Lodge Square performing for pedestrians. Theater arts are provided by the professional Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre Lodge and the community theater council, Lake City Playhouse Lodge. The city's primary performing arts venues are the Dancing Sun Performing Arts Center within Bright Star Hall at Central Council Lands College and the Singing Tree Lodge.
Museums
The Museum of the Inland Salish located in downtown Coeur d'Alene chronicles the history of the region and its tribes. The museum was established in July 2043 and permanent exhibits include “Schitsu'umsh, 'The People Who Were Discovered Here'“, which explores the lives of the Coeur d'Alene people; “The Hope Road”, which commemorates the Council’s first road through the Ghost Dance Pass; “The FirstNations Are Here”, which examines the tribal influences on Coeur d'Alene; and “Steamboats”, which displays artifacts and holopics of the steamboats that cruise the lake. The museum does walking tours of the Shaman’s Lodge grounds and also rents out the Shaman’s Lodge holy circle, the oldest structure in the city as a wedding venue. Other museums in the district include the Tribal Bird Aviation Museum and Invention Center located in the northern areas of the district in Sage Elk and the White Crow Mining Museum to the east in White Crow. The Bird Aviation Museum and Invention Center is an aviation museum founded by Forrest Bird. The museum features a rotating number of approximately 20 aircraft dating from pre-World War I to the present. The White Crow District Mining Museum documents and recounts the legacy of over two centuries of mining history in the region. Mine tours are offered in the Sierra Silver Mine in White Crow and the Crystal Gold Mine in nearby Kellogg.
RESTAURANTS AND BARS
>>>>>[The Coeur d'Alene Brewing Lodge is an outstanding microbrewery / restaurant with the unusual situation, great beers brewed on-site AND great food. The restaurant is a few blocks up from the lake and in the middle of several art galleries. Great for families and a beer on the late summer nights (it’s still light up here in the summer until about 22:30 hours!)]<<<<<
–Connie Connoisseur (13:58:57/05-26-50)
>>>>>[One of the places to eat that is famous among the locals is HighTower's Hamburgers, which is on Tecumseh Avenue. Almost every local has been there, so it shouldn't be too hard to ask for directions. They only serve hamburgers, but their hamburgers are renowned for their best taste.]<<<<<
–LongTrekker (06:24:13/06-08-50)
HOTELS
SwiftRaven Inn Bed and Breakfast
Luxury Hotel Archetype (12 floors)/105 East White Crow (just blocks from downtown)/Dillon Mountain Wolf, Manager/No Racial Bias/LTG# 11208 (65-5200)
Relax in historic Salish rustic elegance in this turn of the century re-brick schoolhouse expanded and converted to Coeur d'Alene’s finest bed and breakfast. Easily walking distance to downtown and the lake. 510¥-2,000¥.
>>>>>[Mountain Wolf is an HMHVV-infected sasquatch. What keeps him from smorgasborging all through his guest list is some sort of magic-modified cyberimplant programmed to modify extreme behavior.]<<<<<
–Hatchetman (04:12:04/12-30-50)
>>>>>[A FRAGGIN’ BANDERSNATCH?!?! WHAT THE DREK, MAN!!!]<<<<<
–Anonymous (24:57:59/03-15-51)
>>>>>[Calm down! Think of the old pre-sim theme of the vampire hunter being a vampire himself. That’s what’s going on here. Out in the wilderness, there are apparently tribes of wendigos and dzoo-noo-qua, not to mention banshees and other bandersnatchii or even the escaped vampire from Seattle. Dillon has led many a hunting expedition of shadowrunners to hunt them down and keep residents safe.]<<<<<
–SPD (20:25:12/05-05-51)
Coeur d'Alene GetAway
Luxury Hotel Archetype (23 floors)/Downtown Coeur d'Alene (near the Ironman course)/Rogelio Brave Stag, Manager/LTG# 11208 (19-7415).
Coeur d'Alene GetAway has dozens of vacation rentals available for Ironman Coeur d'Alene and throughout the year. 1,150¥-3,500¥.
Grandmother’s Lodge
Luxury Hotel Archetype (11 floors)/E. Eaglefeather Pt. Rd (near Hawkshadow)/Silver Four Bears, Manager/Bias Against Orks and Trolls/LTG# 11208 (03-5834)
30 meters of private Coeur d'Alene Lake waterfront and an expansive yard overlooking the lake make this an ideal vacation home for your next summer getaway. Grandma's Cabin is a fully furnished lake home with indoor and outdoor dining tables, 3bed, 1.5 bath, climate control, trid and high-speed Matrix access with fax service, and gas grill. Grandma's Cabin 9,000¥/wk.
The Coeur d'Alene Resort
Luxury Hotel Archetype (13 floors)/Gracie Two-Dawns, Manager/Racial Bias Against Dwarfs/LTG# 11208 (09-4095)
Located on the lake, in the middle of downtown, the Coeur d'Alene Resort also has a stickball field with a “Floating pitch” and a Marina.
>>>>>[Gracie’s a banshee who works with Dillon to hire shadowrunners to hunt other infected. Word has it, she’s the face of the operation.]<<<<<
–SPD (20:38:09/08-08-51)
>>>>>[These two are the reason crime’s so low. They work with the local cops, Ranger Patrol, and anyone else, who is true to their oath to the Sovereign Council to keep the community safe. Criminals are much more scared of Dillon and Gracie than they are of the Ranger ‘round these parts!]<<<<<
–Beat Cop (01:08:40/06-07-52)
>>>>>[An HMHVV infected crime-fightin’ duo working with criminals to the benefit of law-enforcement? Now I’ve heard it all!]<<<<<
–Link (13:44:09/02-05-53)
>>>>>[Meet me in CD’A Downtown District, at the Society Grocers on W. Kathleen.]<<<<<
–Gracie (23:20:34/09-04-53)
>>>>>[Pass! I like my body and soul HMHVV-free, than you very much!]<<<<<
–Link (20:37:24/09-30-53)
Downtown (Security Rating: AA): This is the heart of the district, its downtown with residential suburban upper-middle class areas with a predominantly human Amerind population with a large Aztlaner minority. Aztechnology runs this part of the Coeur d'Alene District.
Here, there are the Televisa media broadcasting station, upscale bars and night clubs, upper-class houses and townhomes, G. Meyers groceries, Optical Dreams Simsense Stores, and upscale electronics stores. Private schools and colleges. Open-air markets and wine shops.
Palouse Falls (Security Rating: A): This is rather like a westward middle class area extension of the district’s downtown area before it descends into the lower-middle class/lower-class Anglo-elf area of Liberty Lake to the west. Palouse Falls is a Kootenai-Salish human area where largely A-rated corporations are located like Awakened Control Center Incorporated, Natural Vat Food Technologies, Reactive Meditech Corporation, Monobe World Enterprises and the like.
Here, there are social services offices, and middle class grocery, electronics, and media stores, corporate call centers surrounded by parks. Beyond that, there are abandoned tenements and squats for homeless Anglos and shadowrunners who don’t want to slum it in HighRock or North Spokane. These once were office buildings before the formation of the Native American Nations. Other former office buildings now house corporations.
HighRock (Security Rating: C): very bad industrial area. Irish Anglo fomori troll working class ghetto bordering similar neighborhoods such as Flathead Hills to the south and OldFlint to the north.
The Anglo trolls here live in prefab homes and squatter shacks, lower-class homes and townhomes made for their large sizes. There are no frills cheap grocery, electronics and media stores where these Irish trolls work. CitiLink public transit stops and police and fire station houses are scattered throughout the area.
HighRock Lake (Security Rating: A): middle-class business district and Sinsearach elf area. Located just to the east of HighRock, this bucolic woodland area hugs the western shores of Lake Hayden and houses social services offices with parking facilities meant to serve Amerind elves.
Haisla (Security Rating: AAA): Between downtown to the east and Palouse Falls to the west, this is an upper-class business district and Kootenai Salish human area consisting of mansions, as well as mid-sized and large luxury restaurants overlooking the northern bank of the river. There are also fire and police stations found here to protect life and property. Many of the residents here are company men and company women at the corporate trid/sim studios and corporate labs and research facilities found here.
Haisla hugs the north bank of the beautiful Spokane River.
Flathead Hills (Security Rating: C): This is a poor and overcrowded business district and Makah cyclops working class business ghetto where these gentle one-eyed giants work at either the Council post offices and office buildings or at the cheap no frills small and fast food restaurants and strip malls that line North 4th Street and Dalton Avenue.
Si'ma'emon Fields (Security Rating: AA): This part of the district looks more like a collection of fields, glades, mountains and forest than an actual urban district. It is a rather well-off, self-sustaining upper-middle class residential area of Kootenai Salish centaurs.
Here are found many upper-class hotels and toy stores, CitiLink public transit stops and police and fire stations. G Meyers Agriculture corporate housing enclaves and corporate farms have been built to accommodate the unique physiology of their centaur residents and employees.
>>>>>[Unicorns, greater unicorns, and satyr Bacchus Shamans guard this part of the Coeur d’Alene District from the wendigos, Dzoo-noo-qua, banshees, and vampires that lurk in the dark forests, the old mountain parks and overgrown golfing clubs to the north and west of Si'ma'emon Fields]<<<<<
– Atholio (16:35:40/11-13-50)
>>>>>[Sprites, or pixies, whatever you want to call them, serve as lookouts and warn the shamans and centaurs of any threats. Especially shadowrunners they are not familiar with.]<<<<<
– Ruloc the Rowdy (06:34:12/04-14-51)
>>>>>[If you want to work with them, you best know Dillon and Gracie first!]<<<<<
– Anonymous (06:34:34/05-03-51)
The Table Lands (Security Rating: C): This is a very bad industrial area and a Human Kootenai Salish and Makah area just east of HighRock and north of HighRock Lake where power plants, water works, and utility services make a show of using hydroelectric clean energy while they pollute the lake.
There are lower class hotels, motels and coffin hotels that try to exude some old west Amerind atmosphere that is completely fake, complete with seedy saloon-style bars and night clubs.
The people here are mere wage slaves who work at these once-great hotels, as well as the areas cheap and no frills grocery, media, and electronics stores, and large mid-size and large no frills restaurants along Rimrock Road, while they exist in their prefab homes and squatter shacks they call homes. Many businesses have closed, only to become home to squatters and BTL dens where addicts get perpetually lost in their electronic dreams. Social services offices face an endless wave of recovering dreamchip addicts to try to get them clean and employed.
>>>>>[They’re hampered by the Koshari Mafia as well as the Yakuza, the Mafia, the Triads, Seoulpa Rings, and all the middling syndicate smuggling ops that run through here. ‘Round these parts, dealing BTL, drugs, organs, and cyber parts pay more than honest work for the average person.]<<<<<
–Sky Pilot (06:34:20/09-08-50)
OldFlint (Security Rating: C): This is a poor residential area and Cascade Ork tribal ghetto between Chilco and HighRock where these poor overworked residents live in poorly constructed prefab homes and squatter shacks while they work at the area’s power plants and utility services. Others work at the area’s social services offices, clock in at the post offices and Council office buildings, the fast food joints and cheap small restaurants that try too hard to be kitschy serving rowdy and violent customers, while others work menial jobs as janitorial staff at the Gaeatronics corporate labs and research facilities.
Alcoholism is a big problem with the many cheap synthahol shops here.
Chilco (Security Rating: AA): This is an upper-middle class business area of Cascade Crow tribal humans just up Route 95 from the OldFlint ork ghetto. Chilco has become the land of law offices, expensive restaurants and quaint little coffee shops and tea houses, upscale superstores that provide everything for those with discerning tastes, and luxury brownstones, duplexes, and multiplex apartments where those discerning tastes live opulent lives.
Running Bear (Security Rating: AAA): This is an upper-class business Kootenai Salish human and University district just west of Chilco. Here, there is located the Running Bear Sovereign Council University Campus (Running Bear University) where one finds the standard array of academic and administrative buildings, and a large sports stadium surrounded by dorms that are classified as 5-20 story apartment buildings, co-ops, condos, brownstones, duplexes, and multiplex apartments. Surrounding this University are luxury grocery, media, and electronics stores as well as luxury super stores that cater to wealthy university students. The upscale mid-sized restaurants are a favorite amongst the university students and the law firm recruiters from Chilco. Pacific Prosperity Group corporate media broadcasting stations here regularly announce legal employment opportunities throughout the Salish-Shidhe Tribal Council Lands.
Strong Tree (Security Rating: AAA): Located just north of Rathdrum, this upper-class downtown area is home to Kootenai Salish dwarven luxury mid-sized and large restaurants, found on the top floors of the bownstones, duplexes, multiplex apartments, and corporate housing enclaves where these dwarfs live.
Twin Lakes (Security Rating: AAA): This is an upper-class downtown area just north of Strong Tree. Here, many well-heeled Kootenai Salish humans own and work in the luxury large restaurants, upscale grocery stores, electronics and media shops, boutiques, salons, clothing stores, and body shops, the corporate office buildings and headquarters with labs and research facilities that hug the southern shores of Twin Lakes. On the northern shore, mansions, luxury 5-20 story apartment buildings, co-ops, and condominiums, as well as luxury hotels overlook the pristine lakes.
North Star (Security Rating: AAA): Located north on Route 95 from Chilco and extending north to just beyond highway 54 is the upper-class suburban Kootenai Salish area of North Star.
This is where many board members of the Chilco law firms live in their luxury gated communities, brownstones, duplexes, multiplex apartments, and gated communities, and high-rises with their expensive mid-sized and large luxurious restaurants located on their ground floors. Also here is the North Star Convention Center, shamanic healing health clubs and shamanic temples.
The post offices and council office buildings here handle parcels exchanged here with the upmost care and security.
Bitterroot (Security Rating: B): Located just to the northeast of North Star and along the highway 54 corridor is the lower-middle class business area of largely mixed community of Guangxinese immigrant and Sinsearach elves.
Here these elves live in their upscale houses, townhomes, and gated communities. Chinese and elvish super stores and toy stores, Council post offices and council office buildings, hospitals and clinics, Wuxing corporate farms and ranches, and Wuxing corporate industrial complexes where food grown on the farms is processed employ these Guangxinese elves and Sinsearach elves.
EarthElder (Security Rating: B): This is an Aztlaner and Kootenai Salish dwarven lower-middle class business area located between the southern shore of Lake Coeur d’Alene and Squaw Creek Road. Here, dwarves work at the area social services offices to help other dwarves find and keep employment. Others work mostly at the district’s CitiLink transit stations or long hours at the Wuxing corporate lab and research facilities.
Latino-focused Stuffer Shacks and Aztlaner-themed automated vending stores provide for quick and cheap snacks for the busy working class residents. Several gas/recharge stations are here to help keep things moving.
BoulderBrave (Security Rating: A): This is a middle-class residential area of centaur and cyclops Aztlaner immigrants located on the western shores of Lower Lake Coeur d’Alene. They live in mobile homes and 5 to 20 story middle class apartment buildings, condos, and co-ops built and sized for their unique physiologies.
These centaurs work for the Spokane area post offices as couriers while the cyclops Aztlaners work as porters for the area’s transit stations, city and council office buildings, hospitals, clinics, toy stores boutiques, salons, clothing stores, body shops, corporate labs, research facilities, or the family-style hotels and motels, good coffin hotels.
Hawkshadow (Security Rating: AAA): Located on the eastern shore of Hawkshadow Slough and the confluence of Arrowhead Lake and Hawkshadow Lake is the upper-class residential area of Hawkshadow. A largely Human Kootenai Salish area, it consists of post offices, city and council office buildings, private schools and Hawkshadow College.
The residents here live in luxurious homes and own or manage luxury hotels, upscale grocery, media, jewelry, high-class, and electronics stores, large and mid-sized luxury restaurants, or corporate clinics and law offices.
Longhorn (Security Rating: C): Just east of Hawkshadow is the poor business and residential very bad industrial area of Longhorn where many of the district’s Anglos immigrated from the UCAS, the CAS, and the California Free State poor black non-Amerinds work menial jobs at Longhorn Public School, the area’s trade schools and Longhorn Community College as parking attendants.
Entrepreneurial residents operate food carts, or manage franchised no frills fast food joints, cheap small and mid-sized restaurants.
They live in a lower-class corporate housing enclave called Longhorn Homes.
>>>>>[Those looking for a way out of this ghetto have found employment in nearby Hawkshadow.]<<<<<
–Bung (22:15:07/05-09-50)
>>>>>[There’s a Fixer, Matrix-only, called Baron Samedi, who’s looking for a team of runners who can get themselves past SSC border patrols to look into why this place is a slum. One angle is the gangs that constantly terrorize these poor residents. Rumor has it, the gangs are trying to whip up the residents to fight back, sparking a race war.]<<<<<
–Hangfire (08:47:57/06-07-50)
>>>>>[Word has is the Baron has a few LCC students covertly on retainer as lookouts and deckers. They’re involved in bringing to light something very dark from here in the CAS, from what I’ve heard. Could improve the lot of many Longhorn residents.]<<<<<
–Io (15:05:10/11-10-50)
Runnigdeer (Security Rating: AAA): This is an upper-class Kootenai Salish downtown area just south of Benewah Lake where Proteus AG owns and runs every business here.
Here, one will find well-funded and prestigious public schools, trade schools, and Runningdeer College. There is also a Sovereign Council Courthouse, a handful of embassies from the various Native American Nations.
Council office buildings are clustered around Council Plaza. A bit further out, one finds upscale superstores, boutiques, salons, clothing stores, body shops, jewelry shops and high class stores, as well as banks.
The wealthy residents of Runningdeer live in luxury Proteus AG corporate housing enclaves, brownstones, duplexes, multiplex apartments, high-rises, and mansions. They dine at large luxurious restaurants. They are top managers and CFOs at Proteus AG office buildings & headquarters.
FalconSpirit Lodge (Security Rating: B): This is a lower-middle class Salish and Cascade Crow business area on the east side of the Coeur d’Alene District.
Those who live here work at the hospitals and clinics, parks, and strip malls. They live in the middle class brownstones, duplexes, multiplex apartments, and gated communities of FalconSpirit.
There are middle-class family-styled coffee and bakery restaurants and large family-style restaurants where the families here can dine out. The better off families have heads of households that work at the Pacific Prosperity Group corporate office buildings and headquarters.
White Bear (Security Rating: A): Far to the west of Hawkshadow Slaough is the middle-class mixed-race residential area of Human, Elf, and Dwarf Salish known as White bear.
Here, they work at either the hospitals and clinics, the post office and council office buildings, or in mid-sized family-style restaurants, upscale Amerindian boutiques, salons, and clothing stores. Some are biotechs and cybertechs at the body shops found here on the block surrounded by West G and H Streets on the north and south, and W. Bullpine and South 3rd Street on the east and west respectively.
PlowLands (Security Rating: A): Directly south of White Bear, along highway 95, are what are locally called The PlowLands. This is a middle-class farming-centered business area where Flathead Salish human and dwarven farmers grow the all-natural food touted by Spokane’s Stuffer Shacks and automated vending machines located at area gas/recharge stations as well as at the local family-style grocery stores.
Other residents work at the many electronics and media stores, such as Stimson Electronics and Media, which are located near CitiLink transit stations.
TallBear (Security Rating: B): Quite a bit south of the PlowLands, staying along highway 95, is the lower-middle class residential area of TallBear, where live Dwarf, Troll and Centaur Salish and Makah in the area’s middle-class brownstones, duplexes, gated communities, and multiplex apartments.
The dwarfs work as technicians for the area’s hospitals and clinics and are on-call to the mid-sized family-style middle class restaurants to fix the machinery and electronics.
The trolls generally Makah who work as orderlies or security and the centaurs as couriers and deliverymen.
SilverMoon (Security Rating: A): Further south on highway 95 is a middle-class downtown area of Elf Salish and Cascade Crow.
There is a CitiLink transit station so that the elven Amerinds who live here can work elsewhere in Spokane. Here, they live in middle class gated communities and corporate housing enclaves and eat in middle class family-style small and mid-sized restaurants, and fast food joints. Those who work here in SilverMoon work in the Eibisu Biomechanics corporate office buildings, SilverMoon Biocybernetics, where custom cybernetics and bioware are designed.
Little Trail (Security Rating: AA): This is a broad bit of real estate between SilverMoon and West Coeur d’Alene and considered an upper-middle class Salish business area.
Being relatively centrally located, there are numerous Salish Rangers fire and police stations, as well as many hospitals and clinics that can respond fairly quickly to emergencies. On weekends, there are open-air markets sell wares crafted by local area shamans and craftsmen, produce grown by area farmers and baked goods made by area bakers. Just west of highway 95 are numerous middle class family-style hotels and motels next to large family-style restaurants. Many work at the office parks containing sprawling Proteus AG corporate labs and research facilities.
West Coeur d'Alene (Security Rating: A): A middle-class downtown area, this Dwarf, Troll, and Cyclops Salish area is an extension of the central business district for this district of Spokane.
Its bars, night clubs and warez stores are known for their casual atmosphere and welcoming to the non-human races. Here, bail bondsman offices can help metahumans who have run afoul of Salish law.
Many residents work at the local middle class family style boutiques, salons, clothing stores and body shops.
The dwarves, trolls, and cyclopses here have retrofitted and converted the abandoned tenements and squats into rustically comfortable and fully functional living spaces for their families. Many of these living spaces occupy the upper floors of buildings where large, middle class family-style restaurants where some work, occupy the first floor.
Riverstone (Security Rating: AA): This is actually an affluent metahuman residential community in the heart of the downtown area of the district. It classifies as an upper-middle class suburban area, mixed among Human and Cyclops Salish citizens.
Here in the heart of the district’s central business district are prestigious metahuman-friendly public schools, trade schools, and Coeur d’Alene College. Private schools and Riverstone College, a private college are also found here. It’s at these fine institutes of higher education where budding young tribal pupils, both human and metahuman, study very competitively to become techs and biotechs at Saeder-Krupp corporate labs and research facilities.
At the pristine parks, on weekends open-air markets sell all kinds of food, arts and crafts, and talesma made by locals.
Paranormal Animals in Area:
Agropelter
Bandersnatch
Bandits
Banshees
Barghests
Bear shapeshifters
Birdman
Blood kites
Century ferrets
Cockatrices
Corpselights
Devil rats
Dzoo-noo-qua
Elemental spirits
Embracers
Fideals
Firebirds
Firedrakes
Freshwater Serpents
Gabriel hounds
Gargoyles
Gloaming owls
Ghosts
Ghouls
Greater unicorns
Greater wolverines
Griffins
Harpies
Hell hounds
Hoop snakes
Icedrakes
Incubuses
Leshy
Lesser thunderbirds
Loup garous
Man-of-the-Woods
Martichorases
Mist linxes
Nature spirits
New boars
Nomads
Phoenixes
Piasmas
Pricuricus
Rockworms
Saber-tooth cats
Salamanders
Sasquatches
Shadowhounds
Sirens
Snow mooses
Snow snakes
Stonebinders
Stormcrows
Talis cats
Toxic spirits
Thunderbirds
Troglodytes
Unicorns
Vampires
Wendigos
Western dragons
White buffalo
Wolf shapeshifters
Wyverns