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Sorriso Salumeria

This party is a real sausage fest. Try the Sopressata.

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Asset is inspired by Sorriso Salumeria in Astoria, Queens NYC. Frank DePaola opened his business in 1979, after immigrating from Calabria, a region in southwest Italy, to the United States. He and his employees make much of what they sell, like the sauces and sausages. Deli cases display prepared dishes. Mr. DePaola said he was selling to his third generation of customers. People who would come in as children in strollers now come in with their own children in strollers.

The real-life Sorriso is a simple one-story building. I generally prefer 2-4 story buildings for my Little Italy project so I took the retail storefront and applied to one of the generic 3-story building templates I will use in the collection. While I will reuse buildings, especially the mid-block ones, in the end when the project is complete there will be a large variety of over 15 different building models for 40+ commercial assets.


This Pork Store is one of the first wave from my Little Italy collection I plan to publish in the coming months where I take independent Italian American businesses with appealing vintage signage that have endured for decades in places like NYC, Philly, Detroit, St Louis, SF, etc.. Expect to see Pasta shops, Cheese Shops, Cafes, Cannoli stores, and much more.


1x3 Commercial Low
Full 8 meters wide, best used middle of a block wall-to-wall
Ploppable RICO enabled


Sorriso Salumeria
Tris: 1,272
Texture: 2048x512 _d, _n, _s, _i

LOD
42 Tris
256x256 _d, _s, _i

Signage is part of the model mesh. With the windows being papered with flyers and posters specific to Sorriso I didn't see a compelling reason to separate the signage as a prop for this asset.