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Ballantyne is a portion of Charlotte that is named for the large business park.
IBM drive in Charlotte was when IBM had a huge campus here its now broken into different companies
SouthPark is an area in Charlotte named after the SouthPark mall
Yea, those count, but I think because of their age and legacy, they don't come off crass. Time heals all wounds, I guess.
Yes, exactly! And I think Los Angeles has a Microsoft Theater, as well these days. Reminds me of Best Buy Theater in NYC--ugh! Terrible!
Lol, that's actually fairly historically common. Egocentric, of course, but for some reason, I don't find it that crass. Afterall, there was Comiskey Park,
Ebbets Field, Shibe Park/Connie Mack Stadium, etc. Though I do think stadiums, bridges, parks, etc. named after the dead are for more tasteful. So I'll backtrack a little here-- places named after living owners/sponsors falls somewhere in between an MLK Blvd and a Microsoft Theater in the level of crassness lol.
In Pittsburgh we have
Westinghouse Park (Westinghouse)
Mellon Square (Mellon Bank)
Mellon Green (Mellon Bank)
Stage AE (American Eagle)
Ambridge, PA (City named after US Steel's American Bridge Division)
Omaha, NE had a 24-building historic district known as "Jobbers Canyon" between downtown and the Missouri River that ConAgra Foods essentially forced the city to destroy the entire historic district for their new corporate campus in 1989. Thus, the entire area between downtown Omaha and he river is dedicated to ConAgra's low-density corporate campus, with "ConAgra Drive" and an artificial lake next to the river called "ConAgra Lake."
There are Walmart (or Wal-Mart) drives in numerous locations, mainly in suburbia and some small towns:
*Daphne, AL
*El Dorado, AR
*Hot Springs, AR
*Magnolia, AR
*Oceanside, CA
*San Diego, CA (Wal-Mart Drwy.)
*Camden, DE
*Kissimmee, FL
*Pompano Beach (Wal-Mart Dr. Ave.)
*Eatonton, GA
*Hartwell, GA
*Huntington, IN
*Elizabethtown, KY
*Monticello, KY (Walmart Plaza Dr.)
*Farmington, MO
*Sullivan, MO
*Hope Mills, NC
*Shelby, NC
*Freehold, NJ
*North Tonawanda, NY
*Jackson, OH
*Warren, OH
*Coraopolis, PA
*Gibsonia, PA
*North Versailles, PA
*Uniontown, PA
*West Mifflin, PA (Wal-Mart Dwy)
*Moncks Corner, SC
*Soddy-Daisy, TN
*Winchester, VA
*Marysville, WA
*Kingwood, WV
Let's nor forget Walmart Rd:
*Bartow, FL
*Bedford, PA
*Keyser, WV
And also Walmart Blvd:
*Demopolis, AL
*Hudson, NH
*Kileen, TX
I'm sure you'll love Walmart Lane:
*Biloxi, MS
*Grafton, WV
*Mountain Home, AR
And finally, Walmart Way:
*Dahlonega, GA
*Tifton, GA
*Morehead, KY
*Radcliff, KY
*Millbury, MA
*South Point, OH
*Midlothian, VA
*Newport News, VA
We haven't even gotten into car companies, Target, department stores, supermarkets, hotel chains, restaurant chains, or the like.
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There are Walmart (or Wal-Mart) drives in numerous locations, mainly in suburbia and some small towns:
*Daphne, AL
*El Dorado, AR
*Hot Springs, AR
*Magnolia, AR
*Oceanside, CA
*San Diego, CA (Wal-Mart Drwy.)
*Camden, DE
*Kissimmee, FL
*Pompano Beach (Wal-Mart Dr. Ave.)
*Eatonton, GA
*Hartwell, GA
*Huntington, IN
*Elizabethtown, KY
*Monticello, KY (Walmart Plaza Dr.)
*Farmington, MO
*Sullivan, MO
*Hope Mills, NC
*Shelby, NC
*Freehold, NJ
*North Tonawanda, NY
*Jackson, OH
*Warren, OH
*Coraopolis, PA
*Gibsonia, PA
*North Versailles, PA
*Uniontown, PA
*West Mifflin, PA (Wal-Mart Dwy)
*Moncks Corner, SC
*Soddy-Daisy, TN
*Winchester, VA
*Marysville, WA
*Kingwood, WV
Let's nor forget Walmart Rd:
*Bartow, FL
*Bedford, PA
*Keyser, WV
And also Walmart Blvd:
*Demopolis, AL
*Hudson, NH
*Kileen, TX
I'm sure you'll love Walmart Lane:
*Biloxi, MS
*Grafton, WV
*Mountain Home, AR
And finally, Walmart Way:
*Dahlonega, GA
*Tifton, GA
*Morehead, KY
*Radcliff, KY
*Millbury, MA
*South Point, OH
*Midlothian, VA
*Newport News, VA
We haven't even gotten into car companies, Target, department stores, supermarkets, hotel chains, restaurant chains, or the like.
Awesome post! I love Wal Mart cause it's cheap, but I HATE actually shopping at Wal Mart. Fly in, fly out! Lol
So I'm watching the Mets and Marlins playing at "Marlins Park" (sure to be renamed), and it got me thinking of a thread idea. Here in 2015, it's a fact of life that most sports stadiums have sold naming rights to a corporation. Indeed, it's harder to find a stadium NOT named, say, Barclays Center or Target Field rather than a Yankee or Dodger Stadium.
But this is to be expected with sports. This has been a "part of the game" for over a century. Afterall, even the icons of Fenway Park and Wrigley Field were corporately named/renamed.
My question is this then: are there any areas of cities named after corporations that come across as crass? Sports stadiums are the obvious pick, and I'm not excluding them by any means, but are there any other areas in general? Could be a beach, neighborhood, mall, park, etc. I'm thinking along the lines of "Central Park presented by Chase". Not real obviously (yet anyways), but you get the idea.
And if there aren't any (doubtful), do you see this as a thing in 10, 25 years?
many cultural centers now also have corporate names
Verizon Hall at the Kimmel or PECO wing of the Franklin Inst am sure this is everywhere
To me there are ironic ones, for example Verizon (Suburban Station) is the rail station under the CBD in Philadelphia and as to not be ironic their main internet/tv competitor Comcast has both its HQ buildings with underground concourse entrances to Verizon station
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Omaha, NE had a 24-building historic district known as "Jobbers Canyon" between downtown and the Missouri River that ConAgra Foods essentially forced the city to destroy the entire historic district for their new corporate campus in 1989. Thus, the entire area between downtown Omaha and he river is dedicated to ConAgra's low-density corporate campus, with "ConAgra Drive" and an artificial lake next to the river called "ConAgra Lake."
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many cultural centers now also have corporate names
Verizon Hall at the Kimmel or PECO wing of the Franklin Inst am sure this is everywhere
To me there are ironic ones, for example Verizon (Suburban Station) is the rail station under the CBD in Philadelphia and as to not be ironic their main internet/tv competitor Comcast has both its HQ buildings with underground concourse entrances to Verizon station
Yea, as a Philly area resident, I definitely noticed that lol. Verizon provides WiFi but hasn't named a station to my knowledge...yet
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