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Old 06-07-2018, 10:30 AM
 
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When were those streets renamed? How is that historic?
Uh, Allen and McGill are iconic and historic.


When was SoNo named? (A rhetorical question)

How about like 5 years ago after some unoriginals returned from a trip to New Yo’k Ci-tee.
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Old 06-07-2018, 11:35 AM
 
Location: Kirkwood
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Uh, Allen and McGill are iconic and historic.


When was SoNo named? (A rhetorical question)

How about like 5 years ago after some unoriginals returned from a trip to New Yo’k Ci-tee.
It's been SoNo before I moved here.
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Old 06-07-2018, 12:16 PM
 
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It's been SoNo before I moved here.
Ok then, 8 years ago?
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Old 06-07-2018, 09:00 PM
 
Location: NW Atlanta
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When were those streets renamed? How is that historic?

Allen: mid-2000s (replaced Simpson and Alexander streets)

McGill: 1980 (replaced Forrest Avenue)
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Old 06-07-2018, 09:11 PM
 
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It's been SoNo before I moved here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoNo,_Atlanta

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The area was defined and named by Central Atlanta Progress in 2005 in order to better establish an identity for the area and give it a hipper image
They just didn't respect the history of the area.

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Allen: mid-2000s (replaced Simpson and Alexander streets)

McGill: 1980 (replaced Forrest Avenue)


Allen-SoNo-McGill is neither "Upper" nor "Westside" nor "Midtown". Discuss.
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Old 06-08-2018, 06:34 AM
 
Location: Kirkwood
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoNo,_Atlanta



They just didn't respect the history of the area.





Allen-SoNo-McGill is neither "Upper" nor "Westside" nor "Midtown". Discuss.
It's time to freshen up the name, Upper Downtown (UpDo) or Lower Midtown (LoMi).
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Old 06-08-2018, 08:24 AM
 
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It's time to freshen up the name, Upper Downtown (UpDo) or Lower Midtown (LoMi).
How about HaBeMiDo, Halfway Between Midtown And Downtown?

Or DoReMi, Downtown Renaissance Parkway Midtown? I'm too braindead to figure out how we could add FaSoLaTiDo.
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Old 06-09-2018, 10:21 AM
 
Location: Lake Spivey, Georgia
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As a native Atlantan I can tell you that BOLTON is definitely what you call that little quadrant of Northwest Atlanta (Chattahoochee Avenue/ far end of Howell Mill) and yes, in the past before "Brock built" it was a working class mostly White community a'la Cabbage Town, but larger and more spread out.
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Old 06-09-2018, 11:00 AM
 
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Allen-SoNo-McGill is neither "Upper" nor "Westside" nor "Midtown". Discuss.

Don’t you evah, evah, place Allen-McGill within the same phrase or breath as “SoNo”!
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Old 06-09-2018, 01:39 PM
 
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I keep repeating this West Midtown/ Upper Westside are general terms for a broad area, a group of neighborhoods. Not specific neighborhood the area is literally to big to be one specific neighborhood.

Or wise Blandtown, Balton and etc aren't loosing their identity, They are both themselves part of larger area. So it's not like SoNo situations where a neighborhood was rename, but rather these neighborhoods also now have collective identity.

So It depends of how specific your trying to get if your speaking broadly to the larger area you can say West Midtown but if trying to be specific you still can say Balton. Hopefully some day West Midtown get a CIDs.
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