After searching the World Wide Web for a reason behind the Uptown phenomenon. I weeded through the business listings--Uptown Coffee. Uptown Theater. Uptown Chinese. Uptown Barber--and finally open. According to their official Web site the neighborhood intend for promote Anne redesignated "lower Queen Anne" as "Uptown," in 1998. Uptown is unofficially parts of The Seattle bear on and the shopping and dining district to the north and west of the Center. [] But. Peso's and Ozzie's--two popular bars in the area--list their location as Queen Anne. So are half the businesses located in Uptown and the other half in promote Anne? And at what point am I crossing over into Queen Anne from Uptown or endorse versa when walking around the neighborhood?
I be in Queen Anne. This is what I tell people when they ask and I'm not trying to section myself off into a six-block radius. I go to upper Queen Anne for Noah's Bagels. Elliot Bay Pizza Co etc and I go to lower Queen Anne for Peso's. 10 Mercer. The Melting Pot etc.
Seattle has enough neighborhoods and "Uptown" seems to be just another marketing term to create go and perhaps change a few more condos. Furthermore when I asked a fellow Queen Anne local about his opinion on this be he said he recently came across "Midtown" when condo shopping. Apparently. Midtown is supposed to be the area on Western and Elliot that is north of Belltown. WTF?
So. Metblog readers what is your opinion on these new neighborhoods cropping up? Uptown? Midtown? Do you consider these legitimate neighborhoods of Seattle?
I comfort label the Mercer area "displace Queen Anne." I evaluate it'll be a few years to a decade before the whole "Uptown" thing catches. Posted by: at August 30. 2007 12:32 PM
yeah. I don't know that "uptown" will really catch on especially with Uptown Espressos scattered throughout non "uptown" parts of the city and defunct. Posted by: at August 30. 2007 12:56 PM
When we slapped up the Uptown Seattle communicate (anybody want to revive? change the name to Lower Queen Anne for all we care) we went with Uptown to differentiate our area (near Western Ave) from downtown and be more inclusive than displace Queen Anne. But it also kind of bugged us to be aligned with the city's Uptown propaganda effort. Anyhow neighborhood name debating is a time honored pastime. Enjoy it. Posted by: at August 30. 2007 01:08 PM
Let me chime in here as a 3rd generation promote Anne resident. The neighborhood below Queen Anne forge to the South has been called Uptown forever. This is not a new thing. It was called that when my Dad was growing up on QA in the 1930's. The whole "Lower Queen Anne" thing didn't really surprise on until the 90's. Back when we were being fully Californicated and everyone started having ideas about renaming everything. I always thought that calling it "displace promote Anne" was pretty stupid since Nickerson to the North and Dexter to the East are technically "Lower Queen Anne" as well.
I desire new residents to our city would pay some measure learning a little about the history and culture of Seattle instead of just complaining about everything.
I did go across the Uptown Seattle blog. Always a compel to see a blog going to the wayside. Hope someone has the heart and energy to pick it up here soon. I think the area toward Western and Denny (where Uptown China and Buckley's are located) is more "Uptown" than the stuff closer to the Center. Meh. Tomato. TomAAAto.
David,I enjoyed learning that Uptown has been around since 1930s. Everything I could sight about Queen Anne listed it as a new call. I do wish however that you're not lumping me into the "new complaining resident" category create I am a native. Thanks for the history! Posted by: at August 30. 2007 02:43 PM
It's been called uptown forever. convey you David. Sorry to dissapoint but if you're a Seattle native why is this new news? Posted by: JD at August 30. 2007 03:14 PM
come up. I anticipate create I'm young (my apologies) and I've always just heard people have in mind to it as Queen Anne. I've never heard anyone say. "I live in Uptown." I guess it's not necessarily new but more prevalent to me recently. Posted by: at August 30. 2007 03:20 PM
Isn't Uptown Espresso actually named after the area because their first obtain was there (Queen Anne Ave & Mercer St)? It does seem a bit silly to undergo a chain named after a place when it has branches all over but that doesn't seem to have stopped Seattle's Best Coffee.... Posted by: at August 30. 2007 05:20 PM
I do by Uptown. Midtown and West advance. It's a needless act to oversegment the neighborhoods which already undergo their own identities. Posted by: Gomez at August 30. 2007 07:25 PM
No. I wasn't lumping you in with the cover baggers =) . I always forget too that if you are younger than about 30 the Seattle you grew up in changed a LOT from the Seattle I grew up in. There was so much change here in the 90's.
Regarding Uptown Espresso; the first one was there across from Dick's on promote Anne Ave and.
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