Las Vegas has started naming its streets after Pokémon

A new housing development in the state of Nevada has chosen to name some of its streets after creatures from Pokémon, which means you could now own a home in Charmander Lane, Jigglypuff Place, or Squirtle Street.

As reported by the local news station KLAS 8 News Now (via Polygon), the neighborhood in question is located in Henderson, which sits close to 16 miles southeast of downtown Las Vegas. While this means that The Strip won’t be named after Arceus or Rayquazza anytime soon, it still means that people will be able to enjoy giggling to themselves when they can say they live on a Pokémon street.

“When I hear Jigglypuff, I giggle,” said project construction manager Andrea Miller to the news station during a segment that showcased the curiosity. “I guess when you are coming home from work and you’ve had a bad day, and you have to turn on Jigglypuff, that can make you smile.”

Can you tell me how to get to Jigglypuff Place?

Miller claims that she was inspired to use the names of the streets she’s chosen because of her sons, who are apparently “obsessed” with Pokémon. As of this moment, the neighborhood is still under construction, but you can already find some street names like:

Curiously all of them take their names from classic Pokémon, all hailing from Generation 1 (Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue). The rest of the streets in this housing development will eventually be named after other Pokémon, but as Miller stated, they’ll have to figure out the number of streets in the neighborhood before building them and submit double the amount of names so that the city’s government can pass jurisdiction to see if a name is allowed or not.

Could other creatures be immortalized through this neighborhood? Will the trend catch on and spread throughout the country, or even the world? We’d certainly love to see Lugia Avenue, although we might be a bit more hesitant about building a home on Garbodor Street.

Source | Polygon