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Friday Question of the Day – Name this Future Neighborhood
When walking to Chinatown last week I noticed that the old convention site is referred to by the Mayor as CityCentreDC. Who knows when this huge project will be built but whenever it does get built it’s gonna need a better name than CityCentreDC. It’s not quite Chinatown and not really Penn Quarter either. So what a great opportunity for us to name it. I know folks haven’t been happy with some recent new neighborhood names like NOMA.
So hopefully we can get something really good that will stick. Unless you like City Centre? Maybe some history buffs can nominate a name from back in the day? Any suggestions?
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davidj
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I ride by almost every day, often twice a day. The renderings on the billboards at the... 
Walter Washington
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Mom AND Dad? Who you kiddin
12:21am
wamu almost exclusively
Nick
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WXPN out of Philadelphia. There's not even a close second for music.
11th
12:02am
+1 just not getting what the hope was of posting this.
southern duchy of petworth
Metropolitical, or I would say Metropolis (but Metropole is already on 15th and that might be too familiar).
i’d rather they put in a park
Really? On some prime real estate located just blocks from all metro lines? Instead of a vibrant mixed-use development that stitches together the streetscape? This is 2 blocks from Franklin Square and the northeast corner of the parcel sits across the street from Mt. Vernon Square. The last thing that it should become is a park.
I agree with JS. A park would be lame here – we need a vibrant mixed use development here – besides there is a huge park a little bit south of there (The Capitol Mall).
I whole-heartedly agree with “doctor action” – more green space, less concrete!
This development is only a few blocks–it’s a bit of a stretch to consider that to be a “neighborhood”. So I’d recommend just calling it what the developer is calling it: CityCenter. We’ve got enough goofily named neighborhoods in this city already.
It is part of downtown
City Center (not Centre) makes sense. Else they could just name it the way every other developer names these things, with some generic words thrown together such as “Fox Chase Run Rolling Hills Hunter’s Mill Towne Centre”
Hooverville
How about, get this, METROCENTER!!
Yeah, what a dumb question. It’s hardly a neighborhood on its own. It’s just part of “downtown.”
Its already in a neighborhood … “Downtown”
Midtown DC
midtown works.
AnthonyWilliamsburg
Yes!
is it “centre” or “center”? Because if it’s “centre” that is tres stupid.
Freedonia
It seems to be in the middle of several neighborhoods (if I had to pick I’d say it’s in downtown)
But I’d be willing to give it it’s own name if we could name it something cool along the lines of Swampoodle.
They should auction the naming rights like they do with sports venues.
I’m hoping Jiffy Lube will step up to the plate.
+1. Great idea!
NoSwamPoo.
Fred. I think they should call it Fred.
captcha: the punkest
Fred FTW!
NY10
In this economy they should call it Never Never Land.
Hotelsylvania…mmuah hahaha!
How about… Itsnevergonnagetbuiltsville.
Athankyou
ParkingLot
SONY
Fentyville
In keeping with DC convention, shouldn’t that be Fentytown?
Remember that you can always lower surrounding real estate prices dramatically by appending “Dwellings” onto the end of any development. So it would have to be “The Adrian Fenty Dwellings”
Fentyburg
I’m just happy to see this developed. Every time I walk by here (I live a couple of blocks north) I always wish there was something… well just SOMETHING! A huge giant parking lot is not fun for anyone, except for people who don’t live here.
I think we should call it FreezePoP because I just ate a jelly bean that tasted like a blue freeze pop.
That parking lot is actually very well used and open late. It’s a favorite spot of valets and it’s also where the convention center puts all of it’s trucks. So let’s not act as if there is no use in it.
The real tragedy here is the trapeze school moving.
It’s ugly though! It’s smack dab in the middle of downtown, just a giant parking lot. A parking garage would be much more effective – heck they should building a parking garage on a 1/4 of this lot and make the rest of it usable! I wouldn’t be opposed to that.
And yes I agree the real tragedy IS the trapeze school moving. I loved watching that! I couldn’t believe how much it was used.
The trapeze school is only moving to Navy Yard. They have a new “indoor” (tented) space that will hopefully mean they are less reliant on the weather cooperating.
trapeze, you say?
there’s our name….trapezeville
should make for some hilarious anecdotes for the realtors
LOL
BoltBusStationsville
and in the interest of fairness, an alternative would be MegaBusopolis.
MIRAGE
Petoria.
We could name it for the developer-friend-of-Fenty who gets paid in whatever backroom deals go on to make this happen.
Worsethanhitlerstan.
Taint East (I consider the “West End” Taint West).
Muddy Bottom
Mud being an acronym for Mixed Use Development
Yeah, the whole “Noma” word just reminds me of the chants for Mr. Garciaparra back in Boston…
So, not too crazy about it. We’ll never have a SoHo in DC. Maybe SONY (South of New York?) :-p Or some amalgamation like a “ChiVerPen” (Chinatown/Mt. Vernon Sq./Penn Qt.)
Bout Time. As in, ’bout time the city did something productive with the land it owns.
West Chinatown
QuarterChina. Or Steve Carrell was here (cuz that parking lot was where I met Steve Carrell).
Stankyland or skanksville
In all seriousness, this should just be part of chinatown (which isn’t really Chinese anymore) or Mt.Vernon Sq. No need to carve out little niches for a 2 block radius. Work on building up the neighborhood that is there rather than forming all these lil’ niche areas
How about EsFraPaNoWeChi?
Does that sound too ridiculous? Oh wait, maybe having to shorten the name of every neighborhood in the city is ridiculous.
Might just be me though.
I vote for Downtown. By the way…
dictionary.com – for all you non’s
cen·tre /ˈsɛntər/ Show Spelled[sen-ter]
–noun, verb,-tred, -tring. Chiefly British.
center.
Sure, but on the sign it is clearly spelled Center. Three times.
They should use that land to build DC United a Stadium
Not cool to say – but I actually like City Center.
How about Ovechkinville. Maybe Alex will move in as a new neighbor;)
Where will the Megabuses and Bolt Buses pick up once these overly priced condos are built?
union station
Old Shantytown