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I've lived near Toronto my whole life, and SkyDome was such a great name for the stadium. The roof opens! SkyDome! Then a company bought it, and now it's just "CompanyName Centre". I'm still pissed about it.
Relatedly, there was also a venue called the Air Canada Centre, or ACC. That one was technically named after the airline, Air Canada, but when I was younger I hadn't heard of the airline, and "Air Canada Centre" on its own sounded cool enough it just made sense. Like Air Jordans or Airwalk, it felt like we were putting Air on stuff, and this was in Canada, so Air Canada Centre. It wasn't until they changed it to be named after some other company that I was like "why would they do that, the name was already.... wait what the fuck...? It was always corporate?"
It's still SkyDome to me.
There's an outdoor amphitheater that opened in the 80s outside of Boston that was originally called Great Woods, a pretty good name. Then it became [company name] Center for a few name changes (it's currently xfinity, ugh). I've never heard anyone old enough to remember call it anything but Great Woods.
I think most people do this in general, even when the name was originally corporate to begin with. Tons of people still say Sears Tower, for example.