Version City: The Mills

Well, I'm finally going to do some writing on my Version City setting for CP2020. Chances are, I'm going to write outward as players explore the city, but I already have the neighborhood where they start out pretty much ready. Here goes...

The Mills district is somewhat inaccurately named, but it at least appears correct. The Mills is the neighborhhod surrounding the South River, And the river is indeed flanked on both sides by large brick buildings that, though they look like mills, were used mostly as warehousing after the city's fire scare, when the economy was still too unstable for the insurers to guarantee immediate compensation. Now, the buildings are filled with trendy clubs and bars on the north bank, and are either abandoned or occupied semi-legally on the south bank. As a result, the two bridges that lead to the south highways over the river are police patrolled 24 hours a day, and actually roadblocked between the hours of 10pm and 6am. Not surprisingly, The Mills are the southernmost portion of Downtown Version City, and the South End Combat Zone begins about 6 blocks south of the river.
There is one establishment on the south bank, the somewhat properly named bar, Firefight. The bar is a common gang meeting place, since generally the city police are too scared to cross the bridge, and the corporate cops have had no reason to come down that far yet. The gangs that exist are primarily neighborhood groups that are, unless provoked, not terribly troublesome, mostly selling small quantities of marijuana and amyl nitrate.
There is one exception, though an amusing one. The South Lords are a gang of kids, mostly lower-middle class to upper-middle class, who group together to slum in the South End. They harass the homeless, and the nomads who pass through the city will beat up virtually anyone they see with the Lords' trademark bleached hair as a matter of principle. The kids are all white, which makes them easy to spot in the South End, where the neighborhood is not only diverse, but also very poor. Spoiled white kids slumming, not suprisingly, are not terribly dangerous, though you will find them in large groups.
The Mills are a popular hangout for all sorts of kids, not just low-brow posers like the Lords. Juvers go to the North Bank for both the numerous hangouts, and the dangerous air it lends by its proximity to gang territory.
Locations of Note: 7th St Bridge, Firefight, North Bank Mall, Trier Tavern, Sushi-Aki Pan-Asian Restaurant