Maple Shade Apartments

The Maple Shade complex was funded and as far as anyone knows is still owned by an Indian developer who made a number of investments up and down the American West Coast. It was only finished in 1974, just long enough for it to fill up with residents while retaining a sense of newness to it.

The neighborhood the Maple Shade was constructed in is a relatively poverty-stricken area of the SE Portland Brooklyn neighborhood. It isn't far from Winterhaven Elementary, an area that is steadily improving (unlike some of the more destitute portions of Brooklyn).

Myrtle Connor Manager Myrtle is a divorcee and a bank manager who took the side gig of managing the apartment complex for the break in rent on her two-bedroom apartment on the third floor (Rm A10). She is rarely in the office; if she's not at work, she's at various singles mixers or attending church (she is a life-long Presbyterian). The easiest way to communicate her is through notes left for her, something facilitated by the corkboard she's hanged on her front door, which has a handful of folded notes pinned to it at any given time.

Roger Milowski Security Despite the complex's set up, Roger is the only security man on-site. (As such, the front gate is usually unoccupied, with its bar raised.) Roger has worked security most of his life, and even served as a police officer during the late 60s and early 70s, when the Portland PD was desperate for bodies in the absence of so many young men in Vietnam. He has since retired and lives in an apartment on-site (Rm A01) with his wife Emma, widely regarded as the best cake-maker in the complex.

Ground Floor