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[gumgum]

You funny people.

[aastra]

Damn, I had a racquetball match booked there next Sunday.

Don't remind me. My Jai alai league is having a heck of a time finding a new venue.

[Nparker]

Don't remind me. My Jai alai league is having a heck of a time finding a new venue.

I understand a new "urban plaza" will soon be replacing that unsightly bowling green behind the nearly completed Aria project. Get your application in now with Mayor Lowe for a chance at a first class - and might I add, much needed - jai alai court in this location. This has the potential to add literally 7 people to vibrancy of the area!

[aastra]

So you're saying the much-needed Jai alai court should trump the much-needed downtown heliport?

[Holden West]

I tried playing jai alai near a heliport and got my balls sliced up.

[Baro]

Holden, I might be 5, but I can't stop giggling after reading your above post.

[Kapten Kapsell]

I'd be curious to know unit sizes & prices in this development.

[G-Man]

I am betting they will be lower then other buildings nearby such as the Falls. But I guess they may be the same.

[Mike K.]

[LJ]

I didn't read the whole thread but what does SoMA stand for.

In Vancouver it means south of Main but there is no Main st. in Victoria which in itself is a little unusual.

[G-Man]

Space of Modern Architecture

Main runs north/south in Vancouver so how can you be south of main unless you are in Richmond...

[Nparker]

Space of Modern Architecture

I think I liked it better when I DIDN'T know what the name meant.

I can't hear/see the word soma without thinking of Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World. In this landmark story, "Soma is the popular dream-inducing drug which is employed by the government as a method of control through pleasure and immediate availability. It is ordinary among the culture of the novel for everyone to use it for whatever various practices: sex, relaxation, concentration, confidence. It is seemingly a single-chemical combination of many of today's drugs' effects, giving its patients the full hedonistic spectrum."
(credit: Wikipedia)

Why on earth would someone name a condo building Soma?

[Ms. B. Havin]

I can't hear/see the word soma without thinking of Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World. In this landmark story, "Soma is the popular dream-inducing drug which is employed by the government as a method of control through pleasure and immediate availability. It is ordinary among the culture of the novel for everyone to use it for whatever various practices: sex, relaxation, concentration, confidence. It is seemingly a single-chemical combination of many of today's drugs' effects, giving its patients the full hedonistic spectrum."
(credit: Wikipedia)

Why on earth would someone name a condo building Soma?

No kidding. That's what Soma means to me, too. I guess architects don't read enough?? :-)

[Mike K.]

The condo name generator must have broken down.

That and The Chelsea was already taken. Twice.

[gumgum]

So were all the names with bay in it and park.

[amor de cosmos]

No kidding. That's what Soma means to me, too. I guess architects don't read enough?? :-)

looks like soma has two meanings:
an intoxicating juice from a plant of disputed identity that was used in ancient India as an offering to the gods and as a drink of immortality by worshippers in Vedic ritual and worshipped in personified form as a Vedic god
-or-
1 : the body of an organism
2 : all of an organism except the germ cells
3 : cell body
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/soma

[LJ]

Space of Modern Architecture

Main runs north/south in Vancouver so how can you be south of main unless you are in Richmond...

I mispoke - the "of" shouldn't have been there.

[LJ]

I could follow you with Soma meaning the drug but this is SoMA, with lowercase o and uppercase MA - should mean south ......... shouldn't it?

[Nparker]

I could follow you with Soma meaning the drug but this is SoMA, with lowercase o and uppercase MA - should mean south ......... shouldn't it?

So perhaps South Massachusetts? MA being the postal standard abbreviation for this New England state.

[Holden West]

The most famous SoMa is of course, San Francisco's South of Market St. district. Nearby San Jose has an area below First St. that is called SoFa, for South of First Area.

How about Victoria's SoFa: "South of Fort Area"? NoBro, North of Broughton? EDo, East of Douglas (lots of Japanese restaurants)?