SoDo

Geography & Places abbreviation · City and Neighborhood

SoDo
Stands forSouth of Downtown
CategoriesGeography & Places

SoDo stands for South of Downtown, a city and neighborhood abbreviation.

Industrial and stadium district of Seattle, home to Lumen Field, T-Mobile Park and the Starbucks headquarters. The name originally meant South of the Dome, after the Kingdome stadium demolished in 2000.

Example: Traffic around SoDo stalls whenever the Mariners and the Seahawks play on the same day.

Usage notes

Locals reinterpreted the name as South of Downtown after the Kingdome came down. Light rail runs through SoDo with a station of the same name.

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