Lego City Layout: Street Life

I received more parts in the mail today to help move along the sidewalk and floors of some of the creator buildings, mainly 31026 Bike Shop Cafe.  I was able to finish tiling the public square area next to the 7937 Train Station, which hosts a hot dog stand and the 40140 Flower Cart while leading to a back alley running behind 31026 Bike Shop Cafe.  I also finished most of the work in front of the buildings.

I wanted to be able to still access the interior of the buildings, but some of the Creator houses/stores swing open on hinges instead of having the removable upper floors like the Modular buildings.  I tried making the swinging function work with the front of the building fixed, but it was too difficult and limited my options on what I could do behind the structures (to give clearance for them to open).  So I decided to try a similar technique to the buildings with lift off floors, and instead have the entire building lift off the foundation/ground floor.  The building still hinges open, so you can lift it off and open it up to get inside.  This also allowed me to put floors in and improve the fixtures on the ground floor.  I removed the clip systems and the bases from the buildings, rebuilt the bottom row of bricks to make it sturdier and fill in for the removed clips and then laid down the smooth finishing tiles around the edge as the foundation the building would sit on.  I put a sub-floor down and then covered it with a layer of 2x2 finishing tiles in checkerboard patterns.  Ultimately it works reasonable well, in addition to making things more accessible by being able to easily remove the buildings.  It also improves the interior considerably.