Gift and Thrift Campus Name?

 

The director of the Gift and Thrift business campus project (where A Bowl of Good Cafe will be located in August ’09) wrote us this morning asking a question that we would like to pose to you, our friends and customers.  He asked what he thought the business campus should be named.  Gift and Thrift is next to Park View Plaza on Mt. Clinton Pike (directly across from the softball fields at the Eastern Mennonite High School campus).  The campus will include “A World of Good Thrift Shop”, “Artisans Hope Gift Shop (aka, “10,000 Villages”), yours truly- “A Bowl of Good“, “Mennonite Mutual Aid”, “MCC Resource Office”, a Credit Union, and “MAX” (some kind of a Mennonite investing thing)
There are two schools of thought in naming the campus: 1) Geographic based name, e.g. “Park View Center”; 2) Values based name, e.g. “Shop and Save Center”.   
Since many of the businesses revolve around good stewardship of resources and living, my suggestion was, “The Good Steward Commons”.  The proceeds of the thrift shop go to MCC, A Bowl of Good is committed to using locally produced/grown ingredients and promoting community, and MMA is about using stewardship in money, etc.  
Here are some questions for you:
1) What name would you suggest?
2) Does the word ‘steward’ or ‘stewardship’ mean anything to you?
3) What is a really silly, funny name for the business campus?  I’ve suggested, “Not-Wal-Mart Plaza”.  Others have said, “The Mennonite Strip Mall”.
I look forward to hearing your suggestions.
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One Response to “Gift and Thrift Campus Name?”

  1. Jim Maust December 16, 2008 at 4:21 pm #

    Has the new facility been named?
    How about Steward Center, or Steward Plaza.
    Jim Maust

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