*also, renaming neighborhoods in a referential style, to a more 'hip' and 'marketable' nearby neighborhood, is generally the favored tactic of NY realestate types who accelerate gentrification for profit (and the media that breathlessly covers it *cough* curbed *cough*). Not saying that's happening here in Detroit, yet, but there's really no justification for NoCo, or, for that matter, "No Ham", which just sounds dumb.— jayarem [Neighborhood Naming Wars]
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