The Loom District
Contested neighborhood of converted garment mills where gentrification conflict erupts into literal fights. Half artist studios and half investor-flipped lofts displace factory wor...
Five-story garment mills that ran three shifts through the boom and stood empty through the Collapse — half artist studios now, half flipped by investors carving up the rest. This is where the fight over who the recovery belongs to gets literal: a mill that trained three generations of factory hands now rents lofts to people who never met one. Villains love the acoustics. So do the team's own landlord troubles.
Appearance: Rows of five-story brick mill buildings with tall multi-paned windows, some boarded, some scaffolded, some strung with string lights over new rooftop patios. Old loading docks sit half-reclaimed by ivy and half-repaved for delivery vans.
Type Contested Neighborhood · Tone Gentrification Friction
Default NPCs
Story hooks
- A mill fire looks accidental and isn't
- A longtime tenant is being evicted the same week a teammate's family gets a lease offer
- The team has to choose a side in a zoning fight neither side is being honest about