Cedar Grove

Cedar Grove is a affluent neighbourhood in Shoreside Vale, Liberty City. With several upscale mansions and large lawns, it's the most wealthiest neighbourhood in Liberty City and the home to the city's elite and greatest politicans.

History
Built simultaneously with Portland as Staunton Island ran out of space, it was quickly dominated by the city's elite. Large scale mansions popped up along the hillside, and before 1915, most of the Cedar Grove neighbourhood had most of its lots owned. Cedar Grove acted as a spiritual and calming getaway from the noise and the dirty streets of Portland and Staunton, and due to the heavy commute to and from the island, a beautiful arch bridge was built across the Cochrane River, known as the Shoreside Vale Arch Bridge, in 1932. Previously, there had been a smaller bridge connected to the northern tip of Staunton, that was often vandalised by jealous inner-city residents. Before 1954, Shoreside Vale was mostly undeveloped, and only existed of the Cedar Grove neighbourhood. Heavy protests lead to a lift of a building ban that had been placed on the borough, which led to a development around the neighbourhood at a exceeding pace. The land value of Cedar Grove dropped 62% from 1949 to 1959, and even though many residents disapproved of the building ban liftings, it was little that they could do. Between 1912 and 1957, Cedar Grove had been a gated community but when Wichita Gardens was built, the gates were removed, and the roads were widened to four lanes. Many previous Cedar Grove residents moved to penthouses on Staunton in anger, and many even left the city to upstate Liberty.