Why is uptown south of downtown

For most of the 20th century, the area was more commonly known as "Hennepin-Lake," despite efforts to push the Uptown moniker. A century ago, in fact, Uptown appears to have referred to a very different part of Minneapolis — downtown. Newspaper clippings from the s include Uptown references meaning the central core area further from the Mississippi River — beyond 7th street.

But modern day Uptown really staked its claim in when one of the area's most prominent attractions, then the Lagoon Theater, was renamed the Uptown Theatre. That Chicago area — now north of Wrigley Field — became a booming shopping and entertainment district in the s after the arrival of the city's rail transit system, according to a story by WBEZ.

The name aimed to put it on par with the city's downtown, which was to the south, WBEZ reported. By there were a number of businesses sporting the "Uptown" handle, based on research conducted by Thatcher Imboden, who co-wrote the history of the area, "Uptown Minneapolis.

That began to change in the late s as businesses sought to distance themselves from the seedier connotations of Hennepin Avenue and Lake Street, said John Meegan, owner of Top Shelf tailors, which has since moved from Hennepin-Lake to the Lyn-Lake area.

It conjured up two very bad images in the minds of most people," Meegan said. Local business owners decided they needed to rebrand the neighborhood, he said, "And we took the name right off the Uptown Theatre.

This preceded the redevelopment of Calhoun Square into a major shopping destination, which Imboden's book notes was approximately when the Uptown name went mainstream. The Star Tribune's archives show that mention of the word "Uptown" began to rise exponentially in the early s. And over time that name has begun to encompass an area far larger than just the Hennepin-Lake intersection.

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