Warehouse District
The Docks may serve as the primary point of entry into Freeport, but that district is only one important component of the city’s trading economy. The Warehouse District plays a vital role in the commerce (and the piracy) that keeps money pumping through Freeport. All that cargo and booty has to go somewhere before it’s shipped out again or sold in town: Somewhere is the Warehouse District, which covers the western shore of Freeport. There are a few private docking facilities in this district (still controlled by the Harbormaster, of course), along with some offices, taverns, and other facilities, but as the name suggests, this ward is dominated by warehouses and storage facilities.
Most structures in the district are used to contain the huge amounts of cargo and purloined materials that enter and exit the city via the port. Standard warehouses are older buildings constructed of sturdy timbers. The threat of fire is very real in this district, however; dozens of warehouses have been destroyed by fire over the last 20 years, and the city’s firefighters worked overtime trying to protect the warehouses. Thanks to a mandate from the Captains' Council, for the past seven years all new warehouses have been built (or rebuilt) from locally fired bricks instead of lumber.
The Warehouse District has relatively few permanent residents given its size; the exceptions usually live in rooming houses. Still, the streets are rarely empty. During the daytime, carts and porters from the Docks scurry back and forth, retrieving and stowing cargo for their employers. It isn’t easy to oversee or to pass through this tangled mass of people, and more than one cargo ends up making an unscheduled detour during which it is lightened a bit by Freeport’s criminal elements. At night the district is much quieter, but there’s still some activity, much of it furtive and most of it illegal.
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