Hillvale

These hills are quickly being covered with the gleaming new mansions of starlets and movie producers, plus executives for companies based in Newton who don’t want to cross the river from Greenvine every day.

Demographics

The city’s nouveau rich call Hillvale home: entertainment executives, bank presidents, and the cream of city society. Because they’re used to dealing with the eccentricities of “the movie people,” the police in Hillvale are far more discreet than their more aggressive Greenvine counterparts.
Persistent rumors place the mansions of the city’s most notorious crime families in Hillvale. If true, discreet payoffs would also help explain the laissez-faire attitude of Hillvale’s police force.

Points of interest

It’s likely that the boards of directors of every corporation in the city could meet for liquid lunches at the Hillvale Tennis Club. Considered the city’s most exclusive daytime meeting place, HTC is a members-only club where you’re more likely to get served a martini than a tennis ball. But some executives and political leaders do take to the courts, including the mayor and the president of Pinnacle Bank.
The Hillvale mansion of Thornacre was home to Lincoln Giotto, head of the Giotto crime family. The guards are discreet, polite, and utterly deadly. Everything is of the finest quality. Giotto did much of his business in various warehouses, office suites, or the Black Rose, but occasionally he'd invite his top associates to Thornacre for a business dinner. And newly made women and men were always feted at Thornacre galas that started to attract notice from both traditional high society and the more jaded elements of the film industry. Recently, however, Lincoln was killed in a noisy shootout in nearby Torton, on Bleeker Street.

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