Abandoned buildings

[fatfluffycat]

Do they replace them selves or do you have to bulldoze them down for new development?

[TheDiaz]

You can bulldoze them if you want, but you can restore them if you improve the land value. The buildings get abandoned because the LV went down too much.

[vividBloodsucker]

I've been playing this game for about 13 years now so I know pretty much all the ins and outs of the mechanics. Buildings can become abandoned for many reasons, using the query tool will tell you why the developer type has abandoned.

The most common cases of abandonment are

For Residential, Negative Demand and No Available Job
For Commercial it's Negative Demand
For industrial it's Negative Demand and long freight trips

Radiation is also a big killer and will make people abandon the area contaminated and refuse to develop or move in. Desirability of the area going too low can also cause this, but if you're good this should be rare. Finally, lack of power is a big killer, make sure your city is all powered or face problems, water will also cause abandonment too, but only for high wealth and for meduim density and above buildings, medium and low wealth of low density can survive without water (but you shouldn't deny them water if you have it!)

Abandoned buildings lower land value around them, have a higher flammability, attract crime and are also prone to arsonists. It's best to bulldoze them as soon as you catch them (query them before doing it to find out why they abandoned first) They CAN be rebuilt into a new building, or be repopulated, but this often takes a lot of time and are less likely to build because of the penalties to land value and desirability, it's best to bulldoze and let another building get built in its place unless you're strapped for cash in which case you'll have to take a chance.

Buildings of high wealth types that abandon will likely be re-occupied by a lower wealth type, these are noticable by a slightly daker colour, but not as dark as abandonment. You don't need to bulldoze these, but from my experience they do give a very minor hit to your land value, though if you have good IQ, HQ, police and fire coverage and a few YIMBY boosting buildings like parks or certain rewards, then it should barely matter in the long run unless there's a lot of them. If there is a lot of buildings that have had their wealth downgraded, perhaps you should investigate possibilities like your taxes, demand and job distance

[TheDiaz]

Originally posted by vividBloodsucker:

I've been playing this game for about 13 years now so I know pretty much all the ins and outs of the mechanics. Buildings can become abandoned for many reasons, using the query tool will tell you why the developer type has abandoned.

The most common cases of abandonment are

For Residential, Negative Demand and No Available Job
For Commercial it's Negative Demand
For industrial it's Negative Demand and long freight trips

Radiation is also a big killer and will make people abandon the area contaminated and refuse to develop or move in. Desirability of the area going too low can also cause this, but if you're good this should be rare. Finally, lack of power is a big killer, make sure your city is all powered or face problems, water will also cause abandonment too, but only for high wealth and for meduim density and above buildings, medium and low wealth of low density can survive without water (but you shouldn't deny them water if you have it!)

Abandoned buildings lower land value around them, have a higher flammability, attract crime and are also prone to arsonists. It's best to bulldoze them as soon as you catch them (query them before doing it to find out why they abandoned first) They CAN be rebuilt into a new building, or be repopulated, but this often takes a lot of time and are less likely to build because of the penalties to land value and desirability, it's best to bulldoze and let another building get built in its place unless you're strapped for cash in which case you'll have to take a chance.

Buildings of high wealth types that abandon will likely be re-occupied by a lower wealth type, these are noticable by a slightly daker colour, but not as dark as abandonment. You don't need to bulldoze these, but from my experience they do give a very minor hit to your land value, though if you have good IQ, HQ, police and fire coverage and a few YIMBY boosting buildings like parks or certain rewards, then it should barely matter in the long run unless there's a lot of them. If there is a lot of buildings that have had their wealth downgraded, perhaps you should investigate possibilities like your taxes, demand and job distance

You are the Mayor's god

[Nadlug]

Should desirability and deman remain high enough they do replace themselves though abandoned and rundown buildings do have a negative impact on desireability in the surrounding area so its not a bad idea to buldose them either.

[Morkonan]

Basically, whenever I see an abandoned building, I bulldoze it. It's not worth the time or the risk for me to wait around to see if it will eventually "fix itself." (Now that I have installed the appropriate HT Fix, that is. Now, when a building has problems, I know it's because of something I did and that means I can probably do something to make that lot appealing for new construction.)

[NAND]

Higher wealth buildings can replace lower wealth ones, but not the other way around.

[vividBloodsucker]

Originally posted by NAND:

Higher wealth buildings can replace lower wealth ones, but not the other way around.

If the higher wealth abandon and a lower wealth chooses to occupy it though, then it can be replaced with builidings of the same wealth