Is there an "inexpensive" way to get the project area name during a Participant (from a work item)?

I have a participant that I want to use for multiple project areas.  The logic is identical but the attributes available and IDs are different so having a single participant helps for maintenance.

So one of the first things I need to do is switch based on the project area.

Right now, I am using the UUID by doing this:
                IProjectAreaHandle ipah = newWorkItem.getProjectArea();
                String projectAreaId = ipah.getItemId().getUuidValue();

and then checking projectAreaId.equals(literal of my project area UUID)

However, this causes me grief going from Jetty (local testing) to pre-prod, and into production, since all of the UUIDs is different.  However, the project NAME would be the same in all 3 cases (in my situation).

Is there an inexpensive way to get the project area name?  It isn't available in the Handle (that I am aware of) and since I do this *alot*, I don't want to have an expensive/time consuming call.

Susan