It must be a slow news week if this is front page news for the PI, Naming sections of Seattle … again?
Ian Cohen’s advertising agency recently moved to Fifth Avenue — the heart of what condo marketers and breathless real estate blogs call “Midtown” Seattle.
Micro-neighborhood names have proliferated as residents colonize new parts of downtown and developers strive to set their projects apart.
There’s the “Park District” near Olympic Sculpture Park, South Lake Union’s “Gateway District” anchored by Whole Foods, and the “West Edge” campaign still trundling along after six years.
This really strikes a cord with me as we work on new neighborhood features for Redfin and we all argue about what the outline for Capitol Hill or Belltown should be. Everyone has a different opinion and no one agrees.
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1 Jason // Nov 15, 2007 at 2:03 pm
If I see another condo advertised as “the heart of Capitol Hill,” I’m going to scream. The “heart” extends all the way west to Melrose and well into the Central District.
http://www.google.com/search?q=seattle+%22the+heart+of+capitol+hill%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
2 Dave // Nov 15, 2007 at 2:30 pm
I mean this in the nicest possible way as I lived there for many years. Capitol Hill has no heart…only an underbelly.
3 Final Answer // Nov 15, 2007 at 7:16 pm
I believe we rigorously answered this very question a month ago:
http://hillku.blogspot.com/2007/10/heart-has-been-found.html
4 EconE // Nov 16, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Why can’t we just name all of downtown the “bum and wino” district? Or has Pioneer Square already gotten dibs on that name?
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