Downtown San Fierro
Downtown San Fierro (only referred to asDowntown in the game) is the center ofSan Fierro,San Andreas, and envelops the city'sFinancial district. It is situated northwest ofEaster Basin, north ofDoherty, northeast ofKing's, east ofCalton Heights andChinatown, and south ofEsplanade East andEsplanade North. It is a bustling locale, with constant street and sidewalk traffic.Police patrol this district heavily, and thecable car line services the area frequently.
Downtown is home to several of the city's tallest buildings,San Fierro Police Headquarters,a public square and numerous small businesses. This locale is a focal point during severalSan Fierro missions, and provides 2 food retailers that the player may access.
Events ofGrand Theft Auto: San Andreas[]
Downtown San Fierro
Following his exile fromLos Santos,Carl Johnson, who along the way has befriended the pot-growing hippie,The Truth, has arrived inSan Fierro to find thegarage he won ina race againstClaude andCatalina to be derelict. This prompts CJ and The Truth toseek out and hire The Truth's friendsJethro,Dwaine, andZero, all living in San Fierro, to work in theDoherty garage. Along the route to locating The Truth's friends, he asks CJ to stop in certain places in order to monitor the movements of some mysterious vans. One spot is Downtown, in front ofSan Fierro Police Headquarters, where he advises the other passengers to "picture a pink golf ball" in their minds before urging Carl onto the next stop without explanation.
With no time to lose, and with the urging of his sisterKendl, Carl sets off to turn the abandoned garage into a successful business. But this isn't possible without help from his closest ally fromLos Santos,Cesar Vialpando. Together, they begin hijacking vehicles to be exported and sold from a newly acquiredDowntown dealership. In an outrageous ploy for not only revenue, but attention as well, Cesar drags Carl to a dealership in northeastern Downtown, across fromEsplanade East, tohijack two expensive sports cars, namely theElegy and theSultan (both equipped with nitrous, no less), and drive them off the second story showroom floor, leading police on a high-speed chase through San Fierro.
Later, afterkillingJizzy B., theLoco Syndicate's San Fierro muscle, CJhunts down and killsT-Bone Mendez andRyder, two other syndicate big-shots, before they can meet withMike Toreno onPier 69. Toreno's chopper, having spotted the dead bodies, flees to an unknown location. CJ soon learns the chopper is leaving from a location Downtown, and heads there to findthe chopper taking off from the helipad ofSan Fierro Police Headquarters. After rushing to the helipad, CJ narrowly misses the chopper, and grabs a nearbyrocket launcher and hops onto a waitingFCR-900 in order to pursue the chopper on the freeway and shoot it down.
Residents[]
Businesses[]
Places of Interest[]
Weapons[]
- Cane
- Flowers - South-east area, south from theSan Fierro Tower, at the ruined road
- Sniper Rifle - North-east block, on the roof, accessible from the west side of the block through the strairs then jump
Stationary Vehicles[]
- Maverick
- Sparrow
- Police Car
- Monster Truck (if you dateMichelle Cannes)
- Merit (sometimes)
- Huntley
Other[]
- TwoCameras
- ThreeSnapshots
- OneUnique Stunt Jump
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Flying a plane through the area can be dangerous due to low visibility levels and sandstorms that blow in fromBone County.
- The area possibly suffered damage during the1988San Andreas Earthquake, due to its proximity to Easter Basin and Doherty. This is evidenced by a sign in front of the entrance to the San Fierro Center's underground garage, which claims the building is unsafe and no entry is permitted, a potential result of the quake.