Hepburn Heights

Hepburn Heights is a district in Portland, Liberty City. The district is bordered by Harwood to the north, Red Light District to the south, Saint Mark's to the east and the Callahan River to the west. Most of Hepburn Heights consist of housing projects and a very high crime rate.

History
Hepburn Heights used to be a very impoverished slum area during the early 1900's. In a effort to clean the streets, the city demolished the poorly erected dwellings and replaced them with housing projects. The previous residents of the slum dwellings recieved new homes in the housing projects. The crime rates and living conditions in the neighborhood didn't improve as much as expected and most people in the neighborhood still relied on public welfare.

Rival gangs started controlling the housing blocks and fighting for territory already in the early 1950's. The notorious gang known as the Hepburn Knights started claiming the area and started protection and prostitution rackets happening in the housing projects. As a response, several hoodlums gathered and created the rival gang Black Kings. Constant territory war occured between the two gangs and the height of the violence happend during the late 1990's, when it resulted in one of the tower blocks burning down. The gangs accuse each other of who started the fire. A new tower block was erected on the same location, finished in 2001.