As we discussed last month, a new development is in store for Rose City:

Rose City’s wealthiest real estate developer, J. Elon Mark Jorgensen — who happens to be the mayor’s brother-in-law, but that of course is just a coincidence — has proposed building a new development of ranch-style tract houses on a piece of prime real estate in the Orchard Heights neighborhood. Because it’s prime real estate, he plans to construct either 43 or 37 dwellings. In our HO-scale model we will model one end of the new development, with just five of those houses.

So that means that either 32 or 38 houses in the development will be off-screen and we don’t have to worry about them. Of the remaining five:

• The ranch house with detached garage, which was the subject of my ten-part series on building a structure, is located in or near its permanent location and anchors the east end of the development. Not yet glued down, just in case — and of course it needs hardscaping and landscaping. See it in the upper middle of the image below.
• The house under construction, which was the subject of my four-part series about construction, is also in its more-or-less permanent location, with the same caveats. You see it on the right edge of the image.
• The other three are represented by placeholders, namely white rectangles of the correct sizes and probable locations. Streets and landscaping will accompany them.

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