Roads named for businesses which no longer exist (there)

[briantroutman]

I know we had the "Businesses named for highways that no longer pass by the business"  thread, but I can't see where we had the opposite: Roads named for a business which is no longer on that road.

I was listening to an aircheck from a San Francisco radio station in the '70s, and a commercial mentioned a Cadillac dealer on "Cadillac Drive in Burlingame" . Not remembering a Cadillac dealer anywhere near there, I looked up the address on Google Maps and found that it's the current location of Audi of Burlingame.

I've run across several examples where street names reveal a hotel's former brand:
- Sheraton Road - Danville, PA (later a Days Inn, now abandoned)
- Holiday Inn Road - Clarion, PA (now a Park Inn)
- Comfort Inn Drive - Morgantown, WV (demoted to a Quality Inn)

A few others:
- Post House Road - Breezewood, PA refers to a Greyhound Post House cafeteria that finally closed its doors in 2004
- Pennzoil Drive - Johnstown, PA formerly the site of a Pennzoil plant, now owned by unrelated Warren Oil
- Mack Boulevard - Allentown, PA the site of Mack Trucks' main manufacturing plant, closed in 1986

I'm sure there are countless other examples.

[Desert Man]

Simon Drive is a small 1/8th a mile road from CA SR 111 to Washington Street in La Quinta CA, where a car dealership used to be (now the site of an Aldi and In N Out Burger). When Simon Motors opened in the 1970s, the area was basically desert before La Quinta's incorporation in the early 1980s.

[Max Rockatansky]

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. 

[froggie]

Carrier Circle, a traffic circle outside Syracuse, NY.  Carrier (the air-conditioner maker) moved out years ago.

[Max Rockatansky]

There is a Packard Street between 8 and 7 Mile in Detroit.  There is a crap ton of Oldsmobile (Ave, Street, Road) around the country...Waterford Township comes to mind.  You also have a Studebaker Street in South Bend, IN.

[hbelkins]

Saturn Parkway in Tennessee.

[RobbieL2415]

Carrier Circle, a traffic circle outside Syracuse, NY.  Carrier (the air-conditioner maker) moved out years ago.

Still got the Carrier Dome, though.

[jp the roadgeek]

Shaw's Dr. in Bristol, CT.  Shaw's pulled out of CT in 2006.  Store became a Walmart Neighborhood Market and is now vacant. 

[coatimundi]

There was actually an exit on US 36 is Louisville, CO for "StorageTek Drive," long after that office closed, and it was renamed the more appropriate Northwest Parkway. Actually, when did they change the name? It looks like the sign only changed during the US 36 reconstruction.
StreetView: https://goo.gl/maps/JruAC3aLq3p

There's a Lisa Frank Avenue in Tucson.
The Lisa Frank company, though it gives the impression of being a land of fun and magical unicorns based on the colorful building in a sea of uniformly uninteresting low-rise structures in a vast office park near the airport, is actually possibly the closest thing to Willy Wonka the real world will ever see. They're extremely secretive and difficult to gain information from, but the consensus has been that they've vastly cut their staff to almost nothing. So the HQ still exists there, in Tucson, but it is not the caliber of employer that necessitates a namesake street.

[Max Rockatansky]

Any road that's named after Motorola...there is a surprisingly huge amount of them

[US71]

Fort Smith has Ingersol St

[wanderer2575]

J.L. Hudson Drive, along the north border of the former Northland Mall property in Southfield,  Michigan.  Hudson's (later Marshall Field's, later Macy's) built the center and was the major anchor department store tenant in the mall.  The location was closed in early 2015 and the entire mall (mostly deserted by that point) was closed shortly thereafter.

[DrSmith]

Caldor Rd in Framingham, MA, which now boasts a Walmart and Caldor went out of business many years ago

[Roadrunner75]

Some of this (and the reverse situation) are discussed on this thread:
https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=8907.0

[roadman65]

Kraft Road or Kraft Drive in Lakeland, Florida where Kraft Foods moved out years ago.  The plant was two other distributors since.

[Max Rockatansky]

Phelps Dodge Road in all places Kentucky:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Phelps+Dodge+Rd,+Hopkinsville,+KY+42240/@36.8348358,-87.4548318,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x88653151930c20f7:0x6014562a2666cfc6!8m2!3d36.8348358!4d-87.4526431?hl=en

For those who don't know they were big time mining out west in Arizona even up until 2007 when they got merged out of existence.

And Standard Oil Avenue out in California:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Standard+Oil+Ave,+Kettleman+City,+CA+93239/@36.0092337,-119.9631974,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x8094b2bac22c5941:0x16873306dc4ee474!8m2!3d36.0092337!4d-119.9610087?hl=en

[myosh_tino]

A couple in my neck of the woods...

Marine Parkway (https://goo.gl/maps/4D9zQXC9sAx)
This was the main access road to the Marine World/Africa USA theme park which moved to Vallejo in 1986.  The site is now the world headquarters or Oracle.

Mayfield Avenue (https://goo.gl/maps/wFUJuLZBErM2)
Used to border the Mayfield Mall which closed in 1984.  According to Wikipedia, this was the first enclosed, air conditioned mall in northern California.  The mall was converted into office space by HP and is currently being leased by Google.

[jakeroot]

A couple in my neck of the woods...

Marine Parkway (https://goo.gl/maps/4D9zQXC9sAx)
This was the main access road to the Marine World/Africa USA theme park which moved to Vallejo in 1986.  The site is now the world headquarters or Oracle.

Isn't there also a Marine World Parkway in Vallejo (the original name of Six Flags Discovery Kingdom)? There's a sign for the parkway but Google doesn't seem to show any roads with that name (so I'm not totally sure if it exists).

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Ford Parkway in St. Paul. The Ford plant finally went under a few years ago after years of treading water and uncertainties about its future.

[iowahighways]

Penneys Street in Waterloo, IA. Named because JCPenney was an anchor at Crossroads Center... but not anymore.

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.4628908,-92.3246384,17.09z

[kkt]

Nut Tree Road in Vacaville, CA.

[cl94]

An extension of that are towns/hamlets/villages named for businesses that no longer exist. Eagle Mills, NY is one and there are tons of others.

[Max Rockatansky]

An extension of that are towns/hamlets/villages named for businesses that no longer exist. Eagle Mills, NY is one and there are tons of others.

Hell you could go further and find roads names for towns that no longer exist...the list is massive out west especially.  Not a business per se but you have Truth or Consequences out in New Mexico that renamed itself from Hot Springs just to get that stupid game show to host a broadcast there.

[myosh_tino]

Nut Tree Road in Vacaville, CA.

While the original Nut Tree is gone, the new shopping center, which includes the railway attraction, is called Nut Tree Plaza.  The nearby airport is also still called the Nut Tree Airport.

[peterj920]

Zenith Dr in Glenview, IL
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.0762332,-87.8592402,3a,75y,314.48h,78.33t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKfzy1AfOYk2Drepen13Ogw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en