Having lived in Price Hill for a few years, as well as in various neighborhoods throughout the city, I'm always shocked at how large Price Hill is. I'd never think of Covedale as being in Price Hill, but I guess that's its designation.

I'm still not convinced changing the name of an area makes that much of a difference in reality, but it is somewhat helpful to have smaller areas of distinction when explaining directions and such.

i'm a price hill resident, and i have no clue where covedale and west price hill meet. i always assumed the boundary was cleves warsaw. regardless, PH is a large geographical area.

There are too many Price Hills: East, West and Lower, and together they are very large. Redesignation is probably a good idea.

I've always been amused by the use of "Covedale". Considering that "Price Hill Chili" is right at the corner of Glenway and Guerly, it's as if the name was meant to do exactly that: remove a stigma of the Price Hill label that would supposedly bring the neighborhood to a terrible realization that they are no "better" than their neighbors a few blocks away.

It reminds me of the elitists that use their neighborhood (say Loveland, OH) rather than Cincinnati, OH when they want to impress someone. After all, the word 'loveland' just sounds like a fantastic place to live. Then they revert to Cincinnati when they want someone know they live in an actual city on the map (complete with sports teams and a university of the same name).

Considering Lower Price Hill, this is a terrible misnomer. Adding "lower" as a prefix to any neighborhood gives a bad connotation. Queensgate is a better name and they should do away with all references to "Lower" anywhere. I can only imagine that the name made it out of some bureaucratic committee with a lack of any imagination.

So, Price Hill is a very big area that includes many smaller pockets. Suitably, each should be given their own distinct names. Covedale, Western Hills, East/West Price Hill, Whittier Gardens, Incline District etc help pinpoint the neighborhood and each can develop its own branding. Just don't forget that a new name changes neither the history nor location of the newly named entity nor Price Hill.

You can call a fork a dinglehopper as long as you want and it's still going to be a fork to most people. And people will still use it for eating not doing their hair.

I'm in favor of "upgrading" neighorhood names. Why not? Nothing wrong with taking a shabby name and making it fresh and new.

Hey, Riverside Dr is nice sounding, no?

Yes, it's a little elitist, but hey, maybe I am a sell out. I would love for Northside to have a nicer, cleaner name (and forever forget we were Cumminsville!). There's actually nothing wrong with the word Northside actually, it's mostly just the image it conjures up when you say it.

John mentioned the word "lower" as being a bad thing. Normally I agree, but I have an exception. I lived in the lower part of downtown Denver, which was affectionately called LoDo. Now THAT was a neighborhood designation we were all proud to say. It was a great, albeit pricy, 'hood.

Perhaps there is a catchy way to incorporate the words lower and Price Hill and make it sound good?

Maybe when the Incline District gets going, people will start to refer to LPH as "LoCline". LOL.

I live in Covedale, simple as that. If you look at the houses on the market in the St. Theresa area, all are designated Covedale area. I see nothing wrong with breaking up Price Hill. It is entirely too large and when others think of Price Hill, Eighth and State comes to mind, not the well cared for homes on Overlook, Coronado, Ralph, Rulison, Covedale and surrounding streets. The cut off for Covedale should be Overlook and Rapid Run over to the Delhi area. Most of the homes in this area are taken care of and need to be separated from the Price Hill label. Also, why we are at it, can someone please remove the "Welcome to West Price Hill" sign on Rapid Run which looks as if it was stolen from a carnival????

Just wondering if John has a problem with the Covedale Center for Performing Arts, the Covedale Library or Covedale Avenue named as such? Calling it Price Hill seems to just confuse matters for the average passerby -- ask any out-of-towner. And, everyone who lives here calls it Covedale and finds it real, rather than "amusing". It's offensive to be told that where you live is not real. Jim Grawe finally puts this silly argument to rest with solid research.

In fact, if we follow your argument regarding Loveland, John, then maybe we should all just say "Cincinnati" and avoid sounding elitist at all cost. That is ridiculous. Chicago is well-known for it's great neighborhoods with unique identities and individual character, but they still say "Chicago" to the outsider from another state. It's just plain smart.

It's particularly interesting that this argument doesn't exist on the east side or NKY, where they have smaller, tighter communities and know what to call themselves -- and, these more progressive communities seem to have an allure that the vast Price Hill identity simply doesn't. Perhaps that has been the secret to their success. Maybe we should let go of some west-side pride, take notes from models that work, and re-create identities for the future.