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| The thirty tallest buildings in the city of San Gerardo Bravo, Altamasstachia (click to enlarge). |
The state's second-largest city and metropolitan area (though San Gerardo Bravo County is the most populous of Altamasstachia's 550 counties) has been rapidly accelerating in growth since the 1990s with Gen Xers, Millennials and Zoomers spearheading the upswing of development in this burgeoning metropolis and across San Gerardo Bravo Island (whereas Traditionalists and Baby Boomers and generations of citizens before them were key contributors to the rise of Olympia, Altamasstachia's largest city and metropolitan area).
About San Gerardo Bravo
The July Bay is the body of water that separates the island of San Gerardo Bravo from the Altamasstachia mainland. While Olympia is one of America's oldest cities (having been founded in the 1590s), the island of San Gerardo Bravo first saw European settlers in the late 1700s and San Gerardo Bravo gradually became a large city by the 1930s whereas the lion's share of the state's major commerce and heavy industries were based in either Olympia, Heston (the state capital) or St. Ann. The rise of suburban communities and freeway systems across the United States in the 1950s and 1960s saw the U.S. state of Altamasstachia construct the nation's largest statewide controlled-access highway system, beginning in the early 1940s. In spite of freeway revolts that were organized in Olympia, San Gerardo Bravo, St. Ann and Luthra City through the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s (which saw Luthra County outlaw the construction and maintenance of roads with three or more lanes each way of traffic and speed limits higher than 55 mph in 1958), San Gerardo Bravo boasts the most freeway miles per capita of any metropolitan area in the United States as of 2021. Yet, San Gerardo Bravo would not begin to reach its present skyline until the late 1980s as mid-rise buildings still comprised the cityscape of downtown San Gerardo Bravo with only two high-rise buildings standing out in the midst of it all when the downtown area underwent revitalization projects to attract corporate kingpins. This ushered in an era of aggressive projects which is transforming the city's skyline to this day, and all but two of the buildings pictured in this diagram have been completed & opened to the public. Civic leaders project that at current population and job growth rates, San Gerardo Bravo will overtake Olympia as Altamasstachia's largest city by 2040, and are convinced that now is the San Gerardo Bravo area's time to shine. Often regarded as San Francisco with a more modernist flavor, San Gerardo Bravo is a microcosm of Altamasstachia as a whole - where America and Asia come together.
Other Landmarks of Note (not shown in this diagram)
Cathedral of San Gerardo Bravo - Constructed from 1811 to 1825 and opened in 1825, the Cathedral of San Gerardo Bravo is named for Saint Gerard the Brave (1519-1584), who is the namesake of the city, and the Cathedral is one of the city's most popular tourist destinations.
San Gerardo Bravo Stadium - Constructed from 1965 to 1967 and opened to the public in 1968, San Gerardo Bravo Stadium is the younger twin of the demolished Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium (designed by the same architecture firms, Heery & Heery and FABRAP), the only difference is the color of the roof - San Gerardo Bravo Stadium's roof is more of a teal-turquoise color while the color of Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium's roof was light blue. The stadium is the home venue of the San Gerardo Bravo Matrix (who play in the Altamasstachia Baseball League) and the San Gerardo Bravo Dragoons (who play in the Altamasstachia All-Pro Football League). The stadium seats 52,000 for baseball games, 60,580 for football games, and has a storied history as a concert venue (it was the site of the most attended "Weird Al" Yankovic concert in the performer's history as 84,786 spectators saw him here on September 6, 1991).
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| A map of San Gerardo Bravo's 78 neighborhoods (click to enlarge). |
Neighborhoods (in alphabetical order): Aemilian, Atascosa Heights, Audelia Park, Avignon Bend, Azalea Willows, Bayshore, Berryessa Green, Boecking Place, Bravo Bluff, Bruno Basin, Carmichael Downs, Cathedral Circle, Cheyenne Run, Chitimacha Hill, Cliffrock, Collette Grigsby, Constellation Terminal, Corte Baristo, Crocker-Arroyo Viejo, Da Vinci Lagoon, Dignowity, Duchess Llewellyn Plaza, East of Keas, El Poly, El Porvenir, Esoteria, Estudillo, Faisano Grove, Fitzhugh Commons, Glawson Keanes, Glorietta Basin, Gooseberry-Moccasin, Greenbriar Riviera, Hegenberger Park, Hulenmeadow, Iron Annex, Islenair Point, Keas Square, Kiddeley Peninsula, Konawa Park, La Cuesta, Larchmont, Liamsworth, Linyi Village, Lorikeet-Scallion, Los Cerros, Marilla Landing, McKinley Valley, Mokelumne Green, Monta Loma Glen, Munger Place, New Edo, Observatory Hill, Olustaham, Pacificmont, Peoplestown, Piedmont Row, Posada Green, Quisisana Mission, Ramsay Point, Royal Orchid District, Safflower Village, San Joaquin Cloisters, Sobrante Glen, South Side, Tai Po, Teakwood Plateau, The Teal Pigment, Tokawamachi, University Row, Verbena Hill, Visitacion, Wan Chai, Weaver Green, Weaver Island, Wellsbury, Wheatley Green, Winthrop Green
A map of the San Gerardo Bravo-Battaglia-Ponce de Gabriel metropolitan area (click to enlarge).
The San Gerardo Bravo metropolitan area, defined by the United States Census Bureau as the San Gerardo Bravo-Battaglia-Ponce de Gabriel metropolitan statistical area, is the second-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Altamasstachia and the 12th-largest in the United States. Its economic, cultural and demographic center is San Gerardo Bravo, and its total population was 4,906,749 in the 2021 estimate from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Founded in 1789, San Gerardo Bravo would be a relatively small outpost for most of the 19th century as the Industrial Revolution saw Olympia, Heston and St. Ann become major manufacturing centers in the state, and it wasn't until the 1880s and 1890s that people finally found the true potential of the area as an epicenter of commerce and trade between Asia and the rest of the state and eastward on to the rest of America. By 1930, San Gerardo Bravo was Altamasstachia's second-largest city (and remains so as of 2021), and the July Bay Bridge opened not long after World War II's conclusion, connecting San Gerardo Bravo Island to the Altamasstachia mainland by car and proving to be a major boon for metropolitan growth. Thanks to an influx of interest from Gen Xers, Millennials and Zoomers, San Gerardo Bravo has been ambitiously ramping up the growth of its downtown skyline with some of the tallest buildings in the United States and is projected to become Altamasstachia's largest city by the 2040s based on current trends. San Gerardo Bravo is home to 21 Fortune 1000 headquarters including (but not limited to) Cork & McGuill, the Denham Corporation, Western Altamasstachia Minerals, Inc., Jeremiah Hepburn and Smith Bronson.
San Gerardo Bravo has a large freeway network (Altamasstachia State Freeway Routes 3, 20, 76, 120, 176, 276, 320, 376, 420, 476, 320, 676, 776, 876, 976, 1076, 1176, 1376, 1576, 1776, 1976, 2176, 2376) (San Gerardo Bravo also boasts the most freeway miles per capita of any metro area in the United States), a railroad network (San Gerardo Bravo is the western terminus of the Olympia-St. Ann-San Gerardo Bravo Railroad, the longest railroad in the state of Altamasstachia), San Gerardo Bravo International Airport in Timmurico, Battaglia-Abercrombie County Regional Airport in Mandursuro, the Port of San Gerardo Bravo in San Gerardo Bravo on the northern tip of San Gerardo Bravo Island (the second busiest seaport in Altamasstachia after the Port of Olympia), the Port of Battaglia in Battaglia and a subway network across San Gerardo Bravo County. In addition to the July Bay Bridge (runs from San Gerardo Bravo to Battaglia), the July Bay Tunnel connects San Gerardo Bravo to the Altamasstachia mainland and runs from San Gerardo Bravo to Allied City, and another tunnel crossing connecting Ponce de Gabriel to Monte Alberro has been proposed since the late 1990s. The San Gerardo Bravo metropolitan area is home to the University of Altamasstachia, San Gerardo Bravo (home of the Friars), Ponce de Gabriel University (home of the Oredockers), Altamasstachia Polytechnic State University in Battaglia (home of the Sea Oracles), and the Immaculate Heart of Mary College in Monte Alberro (home of the Fighting Macs). In professional sports, the San Gerardo Bravo metropolitan area plays host to the Battaglia Gladiators, Fort Juan Soto Brigadiers, Ponce de Gabriel Conquistadors and San Gerardo Bravo Cavaliers of the Altamasstachia Bowling Federation, the Battaglia Wildcats and San Gerardo Bravo Matrix of the Altamasstachia Baseball League, the Battaglia Battalion and San Gerardo Bravo Dragoons of the Altamasstachia All-Pro Football League, the Battaglia Slingers and San Gerardo Bravo Stars of the Altamasstachia Basketball League and the Battaglia Riveters and San Gerardo Bravo Buzzards of the Altamasstachia Hockey League. A safe, welcoming metropolis with a youthful character and something for everyone, San Gerardo Bravo has a bright future ahead as the area vies for recognition as one of the most important centers of trade between Asia and the Americas.
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