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Lotus Garden Projects (莲花园)


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General Information


 

The Lotus Garden Projects is a three story public housing complex in the Southern end of Chinatown, Los Santos along Sinner Street. In total, there are 12 apartments. The Projects serve as a minor landmark due to it's relative location to the surrounding Mission Row Police Department, yet however blends in with surrounding landscape among the high-rises. 

 


History


 

The Lotus Garden, in it's original concept, was to be an all-affordable development to serve the growing amount of families moving into the growing neighborhood in the late 40's, following the conception of Lee Wah Shew's New Chinatown in conjunction with Soo Hoo and 26 other founding members in the late 30's, with construction completing in 1948. The original dream of being a tourist-drawing development soon faded as a reputation for a high crime rate in the downtown area, specifically in the ethnic area of Chinatown gradually grew, and the idea of the Lián Huāyuán's grandeur was misplaced due to poor planning and cramped conditions in the projects. 

 

By the 1980's, worsening conditions by means of soaring unemployment, the beginning of a crack cocaine epidemic, and the LSPD's crackdown of neighboring homelessness "containment zones" lead to the Projects to become a hotbed rife of squatters in condemned rooms as the growing homeless population in the Southern neighborhoods found their way into bordering Chinatown, causing the poor conditions of the projects to worsen and constantly as indecisive landlords allowed their apartment complexes to fall to disrepair in the face of the epidemic and rumors of re-development of the area. 

 

With the dawn of the 2000's comes Soo Hoo's New Chinatown's gradual decline in the face of the 2008 Economic Recession following massive increases in housing prices in the area, and the growing aim of the city to develop the remainder of the Chinatown area, causing another dislocation crisis for the majority of the Chinese-American community in the neighborhood, bound for other Asian-American hotspots in the city as a result.

 

With the dawn of the 2020's and the subsequent movement for a new Chinatown spearheaded by the Fukien-American Association of the Greater Los Santos Area, and the establishment of Little Fuzhou on San Andreas Avenue and surrounding blocks, the sudden re-population of the Lotus Garden has spiked yet again more issues within the community following it's constant trend of overcrowding, leaving it as a center for remaining squatters, arriving locals, and Soo Hoo Chinatown holdout locals.

 


OOC Section


 

The Lotus Garden Projects is an application-only public housing project featuring a multi-interior for plentiful space for community roleplay, our aim is to make a real, living environment for roleplayers aiming to stay in or around Chinatown. We urge people to make niche, well-rounded characters to fit this setting, meaning to fit the description of "an occupant of an around or below the poverty line-majority, ethnic apartment complex". 

As for the application process, there is no format as a judge of competence and character, but we will afford applicants simple requirements;

 

Spoiler

- UCP Name

- Discord

- Character Name

- Character Concept

- Preferred Apartment (Floor and Number)
- Room mates


All applications are to be sent to @slump in a forum PM and will be judged on quality, not quantity in a round-based style, meaning we will be opening and closing applications as openings come, and it is not first come, first serve, we recommend applying in groups (whether that be through having family members or room mates). We reserve the right to accept or deny anyone based around our standards of quality, complaints about denial sent to Property Management or us will result in barring from future applications, depending on circumstance.

For more information or any questions, please feel free to join our discord for the project, which will hold guides and in the case of acceptance, local events and IC details in the confines of the Projects; 


https://discord.gg/a9jMdedfxJ

 


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