February 2, 200521 yr Does it piss anyone else off when a corporation buys a well known building and changes the name of the building to the name of the company? For example Rogers Communications bought the Skydome in Toronto recently and renamed it the Rogers Center, and in Vancouver, Telus Communications bought the naming rights to Science World, the spherical Vancouver landmark, and re-named it the TELUSphere. I know it makes business sense, to attach your name to a major landmark, but does it piss anyone else off? The area between the balls and the butt is a hotbed of terrorist activity.
February 3, 200521 yr Does it piss anyone else off when a corporation buys a well known building and changes the name of the building to the name of the company? For example Rogers Communications bought the Skydome in Toronto recently and renamed it the Rogers Center, and in Vancouver, Telus Communications bought the naming rights to Science World, the spherical Vancouver landmark, and re-named it the TELUSphere. I know it makes business sense, to attach your name to a major landmark, but does it piss anyone else off? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> yup... the saavis center in st. louis. coincidentally, the company saavis is also the brainchild of the same guy getting sued for the phantom game system... infinium labs? taks comrade taks... just because.
February 3, 200521 yr Does it piss anyone else off when a corporation buys a well known building and changes the name of the building to the name of the company? For example Rogers Communications bought the Skydome in Toronto recently and renamed it the Rogers Center, and in Vancouver, Telus Communications bought the naming rights to Science World, the spherical Vancouver landmark, and re-named it the TELUSphere. I know it makes business sense, to attach your name to a major landmark, but does it piss anyone else off? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The Skydome had a name change?
February 3, 200521 yr Author Yup, in the last couple days I believe. The area between the balls and the butt is a hotbed of terrorist activity.
February 3, 200521 yr One of the few good corparate names is Bank One Ballpark. In Phoenix we all love BoB. The skydome change raks up there with Petco Park.
February 3, 200520 yr Sandstone in Kansas City is now Verizon Wireless Amphitheater. Proud purveyor, owner and operator of the Wonder Twins
February 3, 200520 yr "Does it piss anyone else off when a corporation buys a well known building and changes the name of the building to the name of the company?" No. It doesn't bother me at all. IKt's a name of a building. No biggy. If they own the huilding, or pay for the privelege than so be it. DWARVES IN PROJECT ETERNITY = VOLOURN HAS PLEDGED $250.
February 3, 200520 yr Yup, in the last couple days I believe. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Is anyone but the media going to call it the Rogers Centre? I'll admit that does piss me off a little bit. Especially when they get rid of neat names in favour of crappy ones with thier company name in it.
February 3, 200520 yr The thing is, the name is put up for sale by the owners of the building or property, so a business that opts to buy naming rights isn't really at fault. Of course, the corporation could just give a donation, but no-one is in business for altruistic reasons. What bothers me more than just selling the general name, is selling naming rights to various areas of the building, so you get Buick Drive, the Bell Lobby, the Kraft Theatre and so on; that's just tacky on the part of the owner.
February 3, 200520 yr like fight club says: when interplanatery exploration kicks off, it's going to be the corporations that name everything.
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