What should North Downtown be called?

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What should North Downtown be called?

Miller's Landing
1
3%
University Place
3
9%
Black Pearl District
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6%
Creighton Village
3
9%
North Downtown (North Downtown)
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27%
The Railyard District
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27%
Shanti Town
3
9%
Riverside District
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3%
Jaytown/Jayville
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3%
Slowdown
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3%
 
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What should North Downtown be called?

Post by Coyote »

I will add more names to the poll when they are submitted.
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The Black Pearl District.
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As I posted in the other topic:

Why not call the entire district Miller's Landing? There's already a park right there called Miller's Landing. It sounds cool, is historically significant, and it gives a geographic description (landing, i.e. on the river).
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MTO wrote:The Black Pearl District.
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Why The Black Pearl District?
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Rip off of the the pearl district but black to make it different.
You got a problem with black?
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MTO wrote:You got a problem with black?
Nope. Black is beautiful. I just didn't see any historical place name significance there.
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Oh sorry didn't know the guidelines.
Go ahead and fax them to me when you get a chance. Thaaaanx
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No guidelines. But district names usually reflect upon its environment.

But I won't post anything connected with Cuming St. Like Omaha's Cuming, or Cuming Place... :wink:
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Well it wasn't exactly a literal suggestion.
Hey I didn't think of the hole Cuming thing. Good idea!
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Interesting similar story behind the naming of the Pearl District:
Wikipedia wrote:According to the Pearl District Business Association, Thomas Augustine, a local gallery owner, coined the phrase more than 10 years ago to suggest that the buildings in the warehouse district were like crusty oysters, and that the galleries and artists' lofts within were like pearls. "There were very few visible changes in the area," says Al Solhiem, a developer who has been involved in many projects in the district. "People would drive by and not have a clue as to what was inside." As local business people were looking to label the growing area—the "warehouse district" or the "brewery district" were two suggestions—an Alaska Airlines writer borrowed Augustine's phrase, according to Solheim. The name stuck.
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The name stuck, I wonder if we will be saying that 10 years down the road with North Downtown.
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MTO wrote:The name stuck, I wonder if we will be saying that 10 years down the road with North Downtown.
Maybe after we collect some good suggestions here a letter could be written to the Weird Harold asking for name suggestions before this North Downtown gets out of hand and does stick.
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Maybe we should work together and on this site come up with a name and just keep using it. We have such an influence over the media it may influence what they start calling it.
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I just don't know that a name can just be coined for the area. To me at has to arise from an unexpected place. Similar to how North Downtown supposedly came about. My other comment is what is wrong with North Downtown. Not trendy or fresh enough? If that is the case I wish someone would have raised that concern when we deemed a part of town "The Old Market". Sorry, pretty bland in my book.
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i say call the whole area slowdown.....slodo haha nahh
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I voted for University Place... sounds a lot better than the reality: A stone's throw from the airport area...
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Swift wrote:As I posted in the other topic:

Why not call the entire district Miller's Landing? There's already a park right there called Miller's Landing. It sounds cool, is historically significant, and it gives a geographic description (landing, i.e. on the river).
Too suburby sounding. Why not just Miller?
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or what about creighton village, similar to rice village in houston.
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North Downtown is as good a name as any in my opinion
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The Railyard District
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jsheets wrote:The Railyard District
I was trying to think of something that would have remembered UP without being too specific.
My family came to Omaha in 1882 from Ireland to work for UP.
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I was thinking of the rail-yard district myself back when I was messing with mark..
I can just see it nicked the yard or something.
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As we've rehashed in previous discussion regarding this..I say call it what it is:

North Downtown..

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Post by midtown charlie »

I think you should separate North Downtown from North Downtown. They are not the same and I for one don't want my vote associated with North Downtown. Yiiikes!
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midtown charlie wrote:I think you should separate North Downtown from North Downtown. They are not the same and I for one don't want my vote associated with North Downtown. Yiiikes!
Same here. I was going to vote for that until I saw the abbreviation.
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North Downtown is the worst Name. is just bla... nothing to it. I don't support black pearl because its too close to the pearl district out west.

My vote, Railyard District.
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Post by DTO Luv »

They should call it something people will actually call it. I think now if someone was trying to tell where TipTop is they'd say "by Creighton" or "by the Qwest Center". No ones going to say North Downtown. No ones going to say "let's go to the warehouse/railyard district for dinner tonight."

North DT is fine, but I don't see what's wrong with just calling it Downtown. The only thing DT that's not called DT is the Old Market. No other distinction is made so why is it so improtatnt to do it here?
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Because people are already calling it by name. The interstate is a 'natural' boundary line for a region that has never been anything else but warehouses and Creighton. It will be called North Downtown if people don't stop calling it that. North Downtown would stick.
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I vote for "Shanti Town"
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Don't let me down, Hymietown!

I have never heard anyone (other than the OWH) call it North Downtown. No one likes that name. The paper keeps shoving it down people's throats.
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DTO Luv wrote:I have never heard anyone (other than the OWH) call it North Downtown. No one likes that name. The paper keeps shoving it down people's throats.
Maybe cuz it will be like being on NoDoz, the neighborhood that never sleeps!
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YARRRRR, be on board with the Black Pearl or ye can walk the plank!!


I like North Downtown, without the North Downtown. Nothing will ever top "MofO"
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Post by omahahawk »

I'd go for the Railyard District. I like RiverNorth district or even North Downtown district but anything resembling North Downtown has got to go. Apart from being unoriginal, I seriously think it sends out negative connotations that might even hamper development. Not to be overly Freudian, but really, I think it brings up subliminal thoughts of "dont do it, etc...". Kind of like the Chevy Nova. When that car came out Chevy couldn't figure out why it wasn't selling at all in Latin America. Well, go figure "NOVA"...It literally translate to NO GO or DOESN'T GO in Spanish. I really think North Downtown might have the same kind of effect
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Well imagine that North Downtown is winning.
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omahahawk wrote:...anything resembling North Downtown has got to go. Apart from being unoriginal, I seriously think it sends out negative connotations that might even hamper development. Not to be overly Freudian, but really, I think it brings up subliminal thoughts of "dont do it, etc...".
That made me laugh. 8) Do you think people in NYC think about hootchie mamas when they go to SOHO? lol

I get your point but my first thought is it sounds too much like DODO - something extinct. I think it's going to stick because it's short.
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MTO wrote:Well imagine that North Downtown is winning.
No I think that it's "North Downtown" which is winning. If it was actually separated into North Downtown vs North Downtown there would be a clear preference for North Downtown.
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Since its going to be the "cool" place to be seen:

"O! Zone"
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Since it is already referred to as North Downtown - you don't think if it were named North Downtown people would still call it North Downtown?
I think they would.
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I like the name I just came up with Riverside District personally, but I voted Railyard District.
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Post by omahahawk »

I'm not even for Northdowntown District simply because it will become known as North Downtown by default.
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