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Originally Posted by sirkingwilliam
I really don't see what's wrong with shortening South Flores Arts District to SoFlo.
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Because it's not original, has been done better in other places, and could never have the character or notability of the famous neighborhoods with similar names (SoHo, NoLiTa, etc). We're SA; we're good enough in our own right. We're at our best when we are ourselves. Six million tourists come here to see SA being SA; not a wanna be someplace else.
Also, its not some twisted 'field of dreams' - like if you name it cool, they will come. This isht needs to be organic, it will be named what it will be named. It gets all fartknocker when developers and wannabes start naming neighborhoods with catchy 'urban' sounding names before a spade of dirt has even been turned. Talk about unoriginal.
Conversely, it's just as fartknocker when a developer bulldozes 3,000 acres of trees and wildlife for a subdivision and names all the streets for the trees and wildlife that was bulldozed (Grey Fox Run, Cedar Vista Drive, etc).