Streets Named for Companies Past and Present

[inkyatari]

Beginning in the late 1980s, a common practice in Massachusetts has been to rename streets after adjacent shopping malls (North Shore Mall Road, Independence Mall Way, South Shore Plaza Road, etc.).  This tactic has been used to get around the general prohibition of signing for shopping centers on Interstates and freeways.

Here in Joliet, IL, an exit was put at Houbolt Road and I-80.  This road connects US 52 and US6.  A few years later, riverboat gambling was legalized in Illinois, and the Empress Casino was opened on US 6.  The portion of Houbolt road south of I-80 was renamed Empress Road.  A few years ago, the Empress was sold to the Hollywood Casino chain, and now that same portion is known as Hollywood Road.  The thing is, where this road connects with Rt. 6 is about a mile / mile and a half west of the casino. 

https://goo.gl/maps/5VJivjdvD3U2


Just before I hit post, I realized that south of I-80, the road was Bush Road before the casino came in, and not Houbolt.  Houbolt is north of 80, and always has been.

[roadman]

Beginning in the late 1980s, a common practice in Massachusetts has been to rename streets after adjacent shopping malls (North Shore Mall Road, Independence Mall Way, South Shore Plaza Road, etc.).  This tactic has been used to get around the general prohibition of signing for shopping centers on Interstates and freeways.

Here in Joliet, IL, an exit was put at Houbolt Road and I-80.  This road connects US 52 and US6.  A few years later, riverboat gambling was legalized in Illinois, and the Empress Casino was opened on US 6.  The portion of Houbolt road south of I-80 was renamed Empress Road.  A few years ago, the Empress was sold to the Hollywood Casino chain, and now that same portion is known as Hollywood Road.  The thing is, where this road connects with Rt. 6 is about a mile / mile and a half west of the casino. 

https://goo.gl/maps/5VJivjdvD3U2


Just before I hit post, I realized that south of I-80, the road was Bush Road before the casino came in, and not Houbolt.  Houbolt is north of 80, and always has been.

At least that's not quite as blatant as renaming the road Empress Casino Road (or Hollywood Casino Road).

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Bingemans Centre Drive, Kitchener (Bingemans)
Goodrich Drive, Kitchener (BFGoodrich, closed 2006)
Heffner Court, Kitchener (Heffner Toyota)
Holiday Inn Drive, Cambridge (Holiday Inn)

Not sure if this counts, but:
Farmers Market Road, Woolwich (St. Jacob's Farmers Market)

[hm insulators]

Firestone Parkway in Wilson, NC exists because of the large Bridgestone-Firestone tire plant that's still operational and currently expanding.

There's a Firestone Blvd. in the Los Angeles area. It runs east and west through South Gate, Downey and Norwalk before ending at I-5. It was once part of California 42 and it might still be.

Studebaker Rd. closely parallels I-605 and intersects with Firestone Blvd. It runs through Norwalk and Cerritos, dies out in Lakewood, then picks up again in Long Beach. It shares the name of the long-ago car manufacturer.

For years and years when I was a child growing up in La Canada Flintridge, we would often go to the great big Sears store at the intersection of Foothill Blvd. and Michillinda Ave. (This was of course decades before the company started going down the toilet.) Sears Way parallels the north edge of the mall the Sears is in and connects Michillinda to Hastings Ranch Dr.

Magic Mountain Parkway in Santa Clarita leads to Six Flags Magic Mountain, as many Los Angeles rollercoaster fans can tell you.

[JoePCool14]

Not directly named as it, but the main Allstate offices in Northbrook, IL have Protection Pkwy going in.