Roads named for businesses which no longer exist (there)

[PHLBOS]

In Wakefield, MA; Pleasure Island Road was named after an amusement park that was once there.

According to Wiki; the park, once envisioned as Disneyland-East, only existed for 10-11 years.

Most of if not all of the road has since been renamed Audubon Rd. (not sure when such took place), but there are still three signs that refer to it as Pleasure Island Road.

A supplemental BGS along I-95 (MA 128) southbound.

A street blade at the Salem St. intersection.

Across the street of the same intersection; a D6 paddle with TO PLEASURE ISLAND RD. legend.

[delstein]

Buehler Drive in Delaware, OH is a small residential road going back to a subdivision. Buehler's (a small regional grocery chain in Ohio) used to have a store there, but they closed down. There's still an ACE Hardware and a bank in the same building. The store itself was a little strange, because they would bag your groceries and send them in plastic bins to a "stand" (which you can see here), and then they would load the bags from the corresponding bins into your car. This made it popular with the elderly community, because it made the process a lot easier for them.

[TEG24601]

Flint, MI has a Chevrolet Ave and a Cadillac Ave near Kettering University (formerly GM Institute/GMI), which is adjacent to concrete pads that were formerly home to Chevrolet and Cadillac manufacturing facilities, Delphi, and AC Delco.

[GaryV]

Flint, MI has a Chevrolet Ave and a Cadillac Ave near Kettering University ...

And the Google Maps lady can't pronounce Chevrolet.  She says it more like shev-er-ly.

[dvferyance]

Roundy Circle in Pewaukee WI. Roundy's moved their distribution center out west to Oconomowoc.

[The High Plains Traveler]

Aspen Ski Way in Pueblo West CO. One of the only streets in the industrial section of the development to bear the name of a business. It must have been significant at some point but it's long gone.

[freebrickproductions]

Here in Huntsville, AL we have a few streets that I can always remember as being named after businesses that don't exist here:
Shoneys Drive (last one here was closed several years ago)
Airport Road (named after Huntsville's first airport, which the runways of still exist and are used as streets now)
L&N Drive (railroads count as businesses too, don't they?)
Heart of Huntsville Drive (named after the Heart of Huntsville Mall; IIRC, the road itself was named after the mall had been torn down)

I probably missed a few though.

[jwolfer]

Jacksonville FL has Prudential Dr on the Southbank of downtown named for when Prudential had their offices there. It was an incentive to have the company select Jacksonville, they renamed what was Miami Rd. They sold that part of the business to Aetna

[US71]

Rolla, MO has an H-J Drive named for the Howard Johnson Motel, which is out of business.

[epzik8]

Bata Boulevard in Belcamp, Maryland, off U.S. Route 40 near the southern terminus of MD-543, is a remnant of the defunct and demolished Bata Shoe Company. For reference, this is Exit 80 off the nearby Interstate 95 (Route 543 is, not Bata Boulevard), and less than 25 miles northeast of downtown Baltimore. Today, it's the property of the Waters Edge Corporate Park. However, the traffic signal along U.S. 40 still says Bata Boulevard.

[CapeCodder]

Airport Road in Fall River. The airport closed almost twenty years ago because the landfill was getting too high.

[roadfro]

Desert Inn Road in Las Vegas was named after the old hotel.  I'm sure if you look up a lot of Old Vegas Casinos there are plenty of examples.

Here are some other examples of former casino properties that still have streets named for them:

Sahara Ave (originally San Francisco Ave before being renamed for the hotel/casino in 1960): The Sahara closed in 2011, reopened as the SLS in 2014. Sahara Ave is a major east/west arterial now, spanning the entire Las Vegas Valley, so unlikely to ever be renamed.

Sands Ave: Named for the Sands Hotel & Casino, which has long since been superceded by The Venetian. However, the original Sands Expo Center still exists. This is a shorter east/west arterial segment transitioning between Twain Ave and Spring Mountain Road alignments.

Riviera Blvd: The Riviera closed within the last year or so, and it's site will become part of the convention center. The roadway runs along the former casino property.

Hacienda Ave: This small property was the southernmost resort on the Strip, the first people would see coming in from LA. It also had its own eponymously-named airline that was used to being in visitors. The site is now part of Mandalay Bay. Hacienda Ave is a minor east/west arterial spanning a good chunk of the valley.

Dunes-Flamingo Road: This was a short stretch of Flamingo Road between I-15 and Las Vegas Blvd (actually signed as such from I-15 in the late 80s). Pretty sure the Dunes part of the name was dropped in the early 90s, possibly even before the Dunes was imploded to make way for the Bellagio. Of course, the Flamingo still exists (but no longer part of the Hilton chain).

[DandyDan]

I believe Northwest Parkway in Eagan, MN was named for Northwest Airlines, which got taken over by Delta.  When I was up there a few weeks ago, someone at a nearby gas station said that was the future home of the Minnesota Vikings practice facility.

[D-Dey65]

There must be numerous examples of Railroad Street (Avenue, etc.) which parallel abandoned railroad lines. 

I mentioned that earlier with the former Atlantic Coast Line railroad in Brooksville, Florida. I've been working on an article on U.S. Route 221 in Georgia for Wikipedia, and in Kite, Georgia, I noticed an intersection with a street named "Railroad Street," but I barely see any evidence of a railroad having been there, short of some slightly distinct street patterns. After some extensive research I found out it was for an obscure railroad known as the Wadley & Mount Vernon Railroad, which became part of the Central of Georgia in 1906, was dumped onto part of a subsidiary, and was abandoned between 1928 and 1930.

[Buffaboy]

Buffalo China Rd. in South Buffalo, NY. The company went out of business several years ago.

[WillWeaverRVA]

A couple of examples from Chesterfield County, VA:

Price Club Blvd, which served a Price Club, which of course became Costco, but this location closed when a newer Costco opened near Chesterfield Towne Center.

Murray Olds Dr, car dealership long since replaced.

[TheStranger]

Cadillac Drive in Sacramento (near Howe Avenue), formerly a loop road around a Cadillac dealership.  Dealership site has recently become a CVS in the last year or so
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cadillac+Dr,+Sacramento,+CA+95825/@38.5753476,-121.4160752,3a,60y,146.39h,88.14t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sNmztCDF2a0ZQW3OPioRyBQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x809ada5ec9ba5705:0x93336487ccef0144!8m2!3d38.573062!4d-121.4186655

View of the old dealership:
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.5736205,-121.4165199,3a,16.6y,19.75h,90.08t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sw_WsnJO5AI3A0yfgm2sqvQ!2e0!5s20140401T000000!7i13312!8i6656

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A South Sacramento example, though more technically than anything else: Florin Mall Drive, which leads to the old Florin Mall property but is now Florin Town Center:
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.4961636,-121.434302,3a,42.1y,308.64h,93.96t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sz4LSlZjiKcMuPYzcmduqhQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Now that Arco Arena (Sleep Train Centre in its last few years) in the Sacramento neighborhood of Natomas is closing, streets such as Sports Parkway and Arena Boulevard will become anachronistic.

[OracleUsr]

I don't think it's called that any more but in the same area as Regional Road was Albert Pick Road, which stayed that name some time after the Albert Pick Inn (my first memory of Greensboro after flying in from Grand Forks, ND) closed.

[WillWeaverRVA]

I can't believe I live in Richmond and didn't think of these two:

Thalbro Street - named for Thalhimer Brothers./Thalhimers; a distribution center for the chain was located on this street for years. The buildings have been repurposed, but at least one of them is now a Martin's (grocery store) distribution center. It still has the Thalhimers logo painted on the side.

Rhoadmiller Street - named for Miller & Rhoads, whose central distribution center was located in this general area (two buildings on either side of Cummings Dr, one block north). The buildings now house West End Printing and a Greyhound maintenance facility.

Also, a bonus...Seasons Mill Street was named for Southern Season, which had a very short-lived location as the anchor store for the new Libbie Mill development. The store went out of business after less than a year. (This was a really, really poor location for it, IMO.)

[epzik8]

Arrow Safety Road in Georgetown, Delaware may be one.

[BigRTM]

Tampa/Brandon area in Florida.

On SR 60 eastbound off I-75, the first intersection is to the Westfield Brandon mall. The road is called 'Brandon Town Center Dr.', the former name of the mall changed many years ago.

[jlwm]

Mercedes Rd. in Houston near I-45 North and Rankin Rd. was originally part of Kuykendahl Rd. before it was re-aligned. Instead of the usual practice of naming an old stub after the original road that has been re-aligned (ex: Kuykendahl Rd. to Old Kuykendahl Rd.), it was re-named for the long gone Mercedes-Benz dealership that used to be there. Intercontinental Motors (later known as Charlie Thomas Intercontinental Motors, Park Place Motor Cars North, and Mercedes-Benz of Houston North) was located on I-45 North and Mercedes Rd. from the mid 1970s until they moved to their current location at I-45 North and FM 1960 around 2000. The old Intercontinental Motors building housed North Freeway Hyundai (complete with the old chandelier from the old Mercedes-Benz days) until 2014, and the building was demolished in 2015.

An interesting thing to note is that on the window sticker for my 1981 Mercedes-Benz that was purchased from Intercontinental Motors by the original owner, the address of the dealership is shown as 13915 US 75 North. This was a few years before US 75 was decommissioned south of I-30, but at that time, I would've thought most addresses on the feeder road in Houston would've used either North Freeway or I-45 North as the street name instead.

https://www.google.com/maps/@29.9680202,-95.4214335,17.5z

[Michael]

While looking on Google Maps a few days ago, I thought of this thread (I thought it was newer) when I came across a Caldor Road in Framingham, MA.  I wondered if there was a Caldor along the road at one point.  I did a bit of Googling, and found that the current Walmart was a Caldor.

[spooky]

While looking on Google Maps a few days ago, I thought of this thread (I thought it was newer) when I came across a Caldor Road in Framingham, MA.  I wondered if there was a Caldor along the road at one point.  I did a bit of Googling, and found that the current Walmart was a Caldor.

There was a period of time about 10 years ago when the street name sign on the Route 9 end was replaced with one that said Walmart Way. The Walmart Way sign eventually disappeared. GMSV shows no street name sign on the Route 9 end, and a Caldor Rd sign on the Route 30 end.

[Sctvhound]

One of our main roads in the Charleston area, Ashley Phosphate Road, is so named because until the 1960s, there used to be phosphate mines along the road.