Streets Named for Companies Past and Present
Shea Blvd (Phoenix, Paradise Valley, Scottsdale, Fountain Hills AZ) Named for home builder
William Dillard Drive (Gilbert, AZ) Named for founder of Dillard's Dept Stores
I'm sure there will be plenty named after Wal-Mart or Sam Walton lol.
Here's HQ Way in Newport News, VA named after the long defunct Home Quarters home improvement stores
https://goo.gl/maps/Fyxa9Df7zyE2
Here's Shaw's Drive in Bristol, CT. Still there even though Shaw's closed over 10 years ago (and became Walmart Neighborhood Market which has come and gone)
https://goo.gl/maps/4huH5zgAkcv
Not too far away just south of the Southington line, there's ESPN Drive, which is the south entrance to ESPN world headquarters.
https://goo.gl/maps/A5Vwfmb7DMH2
There's Stanley St in New Britain, named for Stanley Tools (part of the street is a section of CT 71). And in Milford you had Bic Drive when Bic had its US headquarters there. It has since been renamed Sub Way for the sandwich company headquartered there.
A few that readily come to mind:
Rick Case Honda Way in Davie, Florida
Ramada Drive near Tysons Corner, Virginia (now the home of a Westin)
SAIC Drive in Tysons
Mervis Way in Tysons
Hechinger Drive near Springfield, Virginia (chain folded around 1999)
Redskins Road and FedEx Way in Landover, Maryland (both outside FedEx Field)
Redskin Drive near Dulles Airport (home of the old Redskins Park training facility)
Then the following are all in one development in Chantilly, Virginia, called the Friendly Village of Dulles, all named for airlines current or former:
BOAC Circle
Icelandic Place
Lufthansa Circle
Lake Central Drive
Iberia Circle
Northwest Place
Northeast Place
United Drive
Lanica Circle
Trans World Avenue
Swissair Place
Panagra Place
National Drive
Pan Am Avenue
There's a Europa Drive just east of Chapel Hill, NC, that used to be the location of the Omni Europa hotel. I don't know whether the road was named for the hotel, but I always assumed it was.
BTW....would you consider a university to be a business? Duke University Road in Durham crossed my mind. That seems a lot more specific than common stuff like "University Drive" or "University Avenue."
In Ankeny there's SE PDI Place (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.7029391,-93.5845054,3a,75y,273.32h,85.56t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sEzePJ4_w71kqWtS0cq4G0Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) named for, well, PDI, a subsidiary of the supermarket chain Hy-Vee that are Distributors of Perishable items in Iowa.
Closer to home there's both Register Drive, named for the main Des Moines newspaper, and Gannett Avenue, named for the paper's parent company. And they conveniently intersect right near their offices (no that's not it in the background, it'd be off to the far right of the picture):
(https://i.imgur.com/UgudORc.jpg)
Here in Huntsville:
L&N Drive (named for the L&N Railroad that ran along it, still active as a shortline today)
Shoney Drive (named after the Shoney's Restaurants, none of which exist in Huntsville anymore)
Airport Road (named for the original Huntsville airport which was along the road)
Heart of Huntsville Drive (named after the Heart of Huntsville Mall, which was torn down before the road was built on the mall's former land)
Bill Penny Circle (named for Bill Penny Toyota at the end of it)
Ditto Marina Parkway and Ditto Landing Road (both named for Ditto Landing)
Lee High Drive (named for Lee High School, which used to be just off of it)
Boeing Boulevard (named for Boeing)
And out in Madison, AL, you have Intergraph Way named for Intergraph Corporation.
There are probably others as well, but that's all that I can think of off the top of my head.
Green Bay, WI area:
- Packerland Dr
- Ramada Way (serves an area of highway commercial properties)
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Bata Boulevard in Belcamp, Maryland for the now-defunct Bata Shoe Company.
Got one in the Southern IL town of Murphysboro, IL: Niemann Ln, named after the Murphysboro location of Niemann's American Flooring (a Southern IL Flooring company)
http://www.niemannsamericanflooring.com/
https://goo.gl/maps/woDbFdhr9Dy
Then over in Marion, IL, a small section of The Hill Ave (Exit 54 off I-57) just west of the Interstate is renamed 17th St, due to the Marion location of 17th St BBQ, a Southern IL BBQ restaurant. Marion does have some numbered streets in their grid, but they are all North-South streets, and 17th/The Hill Ave is East-West, and it does not fit the grid either by location
http://17bbq.com/
https://goo.gl/maps/BjVBPta9gW22
There is a Walton Way in Marion also, not far from 17th St. And its where the local Sams Club is
Up North in the Chicago Suburbs, in Naperville, there is Lucent Lane, which serves the former Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies/now Nokia, just north of I-88 off the Naperville Rd exit. Where Lucent Lane crosses Naperville Road, it becomes Navistar Dr to the east (now in Lisle) to reach the Navistar building, which used to be a Lucent building also
In Houston near downtown next to Rice University: Rice Blvd
SM-G935T
Buffalo China Way
Robert Rich Way
Sonwill Dr
Cobham Dr
Larkin St
Great Arrow Ave
Wurlitzer Dr
Bills Dr
Curtwright Dr
Gemcor Dr
Ice Cream Plaza (Akron)
Galleria Dr
* IBM Road (Dutchess CR 48) in Poughkeepsie, NY
* Dupont Parkway (US 13) in Delaware
In Schenectady's new Mohawk Harbor development, one of the roads is named "Rush St." after the "Rush Street Gaming" corporation that built the casino there. Hopefully this Daily Gazette article is accessible to non-subscribers who have interest in reading about it.
https://dailygazette.com/article/2016/02/22/0222_names
Part of Lincoln Drive was renamed Holtec Drive in Evesham, NJ after a company headquartered there.
In Woodbridge, NJ, the two access roads to a former Hilton hotel are still signed "Hilton Driveway": https://goo.gl/xh9C2B
As you can see, the hotel is now called "Hotel Woodbridge"
In Roseville MI, there is Buick, Ford, Packard, Dodge, and Hudson. All was car brands made in Detroit in the 1930s.
Howard Johnson Road in Cherry Hii, New Jersey.
This road was a local access for deliveries to the Walt Whitman Service plaza on the New Jersey Turnpike back in the day when Howard Johnson's was there.
John Deere Road/Expy in Moline, IL. Also, there's a John Deere Place and John Deere Parkway. All three run to the world headquarters, where Road (Expy) is a thoroughfare, Pkwy is a frontage road, and Place goes directly to HQ.
Quote from: pianocello on July 24, 2017, 09:23:03 PM
John Deere Road/Expy in Moline, IL. Also, there's a John Deere Place and John Deere Parkway. All three run to the world headquarters, where Road (Expy) is a thoroughfare, Pkwy is a frontage road, and Place goes directly to HQ.
Along a similar note, Caterpillar Trail in East Peoria, IL. Caterpillar's (until recently) HQ was in Peoria, and they still have major Peoria operations, but they have decided to move the HQ to Chicago, for airport access and perhaps a thought that a Large Urban setting will be more attractive to young professionals than downstate Peoria (I kinda like Peoria -- big enough its not a small town, but small enough its not a big city)
- Saturn Parkway in Tennessee, named after the now-defunct Saturn Motor Co.
- In the early 70s, when Holiday Inns were rapidly expanding along the newly-completed interstates, many of the new streets leading to their hotels were named Holiday (Inn) Dr./Ln./etc...
Sunburst Drive in Goldsboro, NC was named after Sunburst Foods, which shut down with little warning in 2014 after a major recall after being there many years. Another company is moving in, but the road name is staying the same, as far as I know.
Firestone Parkway in Wilson, NC exists because of the large Bridgestone-Firestone tire plant that's still operational and currently expanding.
Then there's Goodyear Boulevard in Danville, VA because of the large tire plant, which has been in hot water lately due to work-related deaths over the last couple of years.
Quote from: LM117 on July 24, 2017, 10:41:36 PM
Firestone Parkway in Wilson, NC exists because of the large Bridgestone-Firestone tire plant that's still operational and currently expanding.
Then there's Goodyear Boulevard in Danville, VA because of the large tire plant, which has been in hot water lately due to work-related deaths over the last couple of years.
Akron Ohio also has a Firestone Blvd. and a Goodyear Blvd. named after their HQs and plants that once graced the area. Uniroyal and Goodrich also had plants here back in the day, but no major thoroughfares nor neighborhoods were named for them (there is also the Goodyear Hts. and Firestone Pk. neighborhoods in Akron as well).
Uno Circle, Joliet Illinois. Named after the card game. The company that created the game, International Games was headquartered here.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.524824,-88.1339745,3a,28.7y,142.05h,91.58t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sAdLL019qlVfo22dTIP_HAA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Hudiburg Dr in Midwest City, OK (suburb of OKC):
http://tiny.cc/kq6nmy
The main road to my high school growing up had a section named "Readers Digest Road", for the adjacent corporate headquarters (Chappaqua, NY). The company is long gone, though the building is still there and being repurposed.
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.
Quote from: roadman on July 25, 2017, 02:19:36 PM
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.
Quote from: inkyatari on July 25, 2017, 02:53:41 PM
Quote from: roadman on July 25, 2017, 02:19:36 PM
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).
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)
Quote from: LM117 on July 24, 2017, 10:41:36 PM
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.
Not directly named as it, but the main Allstate offices in Northbrook, IL have Protection Pkwy going in.