Old Town is the central district of Ernest Point, the footprint of Old Town is the same as when the city was founded, with the most central building, M.E. Mackay Hall, being the old Mackay Chemicals Research Building. This district of the city is primarily city services or corporate buildings, Old Town has the majority of the skyscrapers in Ernest Point, this area is where the majority of the skyline is. The core buildings in Old Town is the City Hall, Mackay Chemicals, which is the tallest building in Ernest Point, Chemcrest Hospital, the largest hospital in the city, and T.R.O.T Tower, an office building with each floor rented to different companies.
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Settled | April 7th, 1924 |
Area | 19.8 mi² (51.3 km²) |
Population | 237,981 |
Demonym(s) | Pointer |
Time Zone | UTC -05:00 (Easter Standard Time) |
Founded by Ernest Mackay in 1924, Ernest Point is city within the Finger Lakes Region of New York. It was built on an old railroad line in Cayuga County, the track was laid specifically connecting the city with Midiston. The city was built originally as a branch plant for Mackay Farming, planned out with the Mackay Chemicals Research Building at the heart of the city. The chemical research done at Ernest Point in the 1920s was entirely in attempts to create better fertiliser to sell to farmers, so instead of relying entirely on income from selling farming tools, they could diversify and create a more repeatable mode of profit. But the war wasn't far around the corner, so when Mackay Farming turned into Mackay Technologies, the chemical branch switched paths from agriculture to potential chemical weaponry.
With the financial boom the Mackays benefitted from during the war, a lot of the money that Ernest made got funnelled back into the city, with the Old Research Building being transformed into the city council building and Mackay Chemicals becoming the new research facility. Since the economy was in an upturn, the city grew outwards. Now, Ernest Point houses multiple different corporate buildings, several warehouses, and countless homes of differing density. The city houses approximately 120,000 citizens, with hundreds or thousands of people coming into the city for their jobs.
Thanks to its connection with Mackay Technologies, the city has benefitted from being one of the two cities with a fleet of city busses using the prototype sustainable combustion engines from Mackay Motors. These are the most popular public transit to get across the city, thanks to its green footprint, but the city does also have a subway system, with the major interchange being in Mackay Square. The city did primarily have cars in mind when planning the roads, but M.E. Mackay, the first mayor of the city, required that any urban planning also account for walkability.