"BeHi"

By wesa
July 19th, 2008 @ 10:58 AM Uncategorized

The Seattle Times is helping Beacon Hill promote a “new” neighborhood name: BeHi, short for Beacon Hill. Similar to SoDo and NOMA (where is NOMA?), this catchy-to-some new label has created some local buzz with residents.

Personally, I think Beacon Hill doesn’t need a new name. What do you think? Catchy? Dumb? Any suggestions for a new name or is the original just fine?

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6 Comments so far

  1. blondelawyer on July 19th, 2008 @ 11:20 am

    BeHi sounds dumb. I think that original is fine…why do we need to shorten everything?

  2. mik (kimberley) on July 19th, 2008 @ 12:35 pm

    BeHi does sound dumb, even though every time I hear "Beacon Hill", I think of Beacon Hill in Boston.

  3. Patricia Eddy (patriciaeddy) on July 19th, 2008 @ 1:26 pm

    NOMA is "North of Market" in Ballard. But I’m not sure that’s as much a neighborhood as a condo complex. I think the condo complex wants it to be a neighborhood, but the rest of Ballard doesn’t seem to be catching on.

  4. kolebigears on July 19th, 2008 @ 1:45 pm

    I just moved to Beacon Hill in May and this is the first I have heard of it. What an asinine concept. Ahhh let’s make sure to shorten and dumb down everything else in our culture too…brilliant! /sarcasm

  5. alejo699 on July 21st, 2008 @ 10:13 am

    To save one syllable we should make the neighborhood sound like it’s full of hippies with correspondence-school marketing degrees? No, I think not.

  6. darbyalycen on July 21st, 2008 @ 10:23 am

    Dumb. Isn’t there enough drug activity going on there, now it’s the area slogan?

    BeHi


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