[Location] Loyd Center Night Market

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     Straddling the line between barrens and downtown, the Loyd Center Mall became a focal point for the illicit as the city developed into its modern incarnation.  Abandoned by legitimate businesses, the "Night Market" is a big location for black market operations and small-time benign stalls.  The mall, and its immediate vicinity are a kind of informal neutral zone where gangs and crime syndicates are supposed to operate without fighting.  This stemmed from necessity as the more fights that broke out, the more likely the constabulary was to sweep the area and put a damper on everyone's fun.  There is just about always some number of stalls open at any given time but as the name would imply, most of the business happens when the sun goes down.  The area around the mall itself is also the local nidus for shadowrunner activity with many runner bars and clubs  packing the area and offering private rooms to conduct business with a johnson.  A great place to grab a bite to eat, a gun to shoot, and a trid to waste some time before heading into the city proper for a job.
     The mall's unique location so close to downtown has seen it become a popular location not just among the criminal elements of the city but with the more well-to-do SINners as well.  The area around the mall is home to many bars and clubs which are frequented as much by corp kids looking for a taste of danger as they are by the SINnless population.  The criminal armistice in the area usually keeps these clubbers and ganger wannabes from getting their skulls caved and the local clubs and bars are more than happy to take their nuyen.