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On Moorpark Street: Parkmoor

Creative apartment names are always fun. Even if it is as simple as flipping the two words that make up the name of the street that it resides on. What if other apartment complexes around town followed suit and flip-flopped syllables?
Manwood Plaza
Watercold Gardens
Rosemel Flats
Landhigh Joint
Ratije La Casa
Picolym Place
Tanamon Huts
Iceven Studios
Chesterman Condos
Waybroad Penthouse
Radocolo Abode
Claymar Co-op
Hurstheyven Suites
Of course if you spell some backwards, you get sayings like Kraproom St.
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