{"id":49407,"date":"2015-01-28T22:58:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T22:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/28\/on-the-naming-of-buildings.html"},"modified":"2015-01-28T22:58:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T22:58:22","slug":"on-the-naming-of-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/28\/on-the-naming-of-buildings.html","title":{"rendered":"On the Naming of Buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really hate it when buildings are named after the primary tenant — more, more specifically, when they change names when said tenant moves. We have a lot of older buildings in Denver named after the original tenant\/owner, but many of the skyscrapers put in during the 60s-80s end up with whatever tenant shells out enough to buy the naming rights and the sign at the top.<\/p>\n

The result is place names that change, which doesn't make life easier for giving directions.<\/p>\n

When I'm King of the World and wear a shiny hat, I'll do something about that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nWorld Trade Center Denver decamps, towers renamed Denver Energy Center<\/a><\/span>
\nDenver World Trade Center will leave downtown Denver and towers it called home for 27 years will be rebranded as Denver Energy Center.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I really hate it when buildings are named after the primary tenant — more, more specifically, when they change names when said tenant moves. We have a lot of older buildings in Denver named after the original tenant\/owner, but many of the skyscrapers put in during the 60s-80s end up with whatever tenant shells out … Continue reading “On the Naming of Buildings”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10488,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/06\/yucca.html","url_meta":{"origin":49407,"position":0},"title":"Yucca","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 6-Jan-07 4:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A quaint little near-ghost town ... 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