SimCity 204: Commercial Planning

Mousing over the information button on the zoning HUD will give you the following tips on commercial zoning:

  • Zone commercial to attract shops
  • Shops create jobs
  • Shops sell goods to shoppers and tourists
  • Higher wealth shops cater to higher wealth customers
  • If a shop can't sell enough goods, it will go abandoned

So commercial zoning is about four things:

Jobs

The people who live in your town need places to work. The have two choices: commercial zones and industrial zones. It's the combination of the two that provide a wide array of money options and maximize your city's operating revenue.

Happiness

Happiness is provided by parks and purchases -- namely trips to Simkea and Sim, Bath, and Beyond. In this way, residential and commercial zones feed off of each other, so you want to keep them near to one another. Ideally, you want to interlace them together to minimize traffic. In addition, neither zone pollutes. So if you segregate your RC neighborhoods away from your industrial, you can prevent illness: a key source of unhappiness.

Boutiques

Catering to the rich and famous, upscale boutiques are the first step in advancing toward skyscrapers. This crucial first step is accomplished by placing parks near low-density commercial zones. This will increase their land value, encourage the construction of boutiques, and then attract high-wealth Sims to your city.

Abandonment

If a shop goes abandoned, you need to remember to demolish it so it doesn't become a haven for crime and firebugs.

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