Streets, Roads & Highways with official Corporate Names?
In Gilbert, AZ there is a street called William Dillard dr, Named for the founder of Dillard's Department Store. (A Dillard's distribution center is located on the north end of this street.)
Are there any other Streets, Roads & Highways with official Corporate Names?
I have seen too many fucking red lights with the cross street identified solely as "Walmart".
really.
you know you've lost at life when the Walmart traffic gets the green light, and you do not.
There's a JC Penney Dr by the original JC Penney in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
There's a Weyerhauser Way in Auburn, WA right by the Weyerhauser corporate headquarters.
SR 526 in Everett, WA is the Boeing Freeway
There's a Cabela Dr in Sidney, Nebraska that serves the Cabela's corporate headquarters and main store
Not directly related, but Micron Computer's corporate headquarters is on Memory Rd in Boise, "Memory" referring to computer memory.
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Woolworths, a supermarket chain in Australia. This location is in north west Sydney.
There's a short segment of frontage road near TH 100 in St. Louis Park, MN. It used to be called Stephens Drive, after the owner of the car dealership located there. When the dealership was sold (or just changed names?) and became Westside Volkswagen, the name of the street became Westside Drive.
I know the name changed because of all the BGSs on the freeway. Best advertising money can't buy!
Detroit has several notable ones (Chrysler Freeway, Ford Freeway, Fisher Freeway) but those tend to be named not for the companies but for specific people within the founding families. (Same deal for Flint's Buick Freeway)
In Sacramento, Hubacher Cadillac was accessed by "Cadillac Drive" near the intersection of Howe Avenue and Fair Oaks Boulevard - now somewhat ironic as the dealership has moved a few miles away!
My observation is that this seems to be increasingly common. In many cases, I think it's part of the incentive packages that governments offer to get companies to locate there. But because of scenarios like the following, I think it's short-sighted for urban planners to allow corporate streetnames: in the southern suburbs of Denver, the road formerly known as "Highlands Ranch Blvd" was renamed in 1997 to "Lucent Blvd". However, less than 10 years afterward, Lucent was bought by Alcatel. Now the company is called Alcatel-Lucent, but with things the way they are these days, I wouldn't be surprised if the company name changes again, potentially to something that doesn't contain any form of "Lucent".
I haven't even mentioned an obvious set of examples - the roads in the Las Vegas Strip area (Paradise, NV) named after nearby hotels!
Sahara Avenue
Flamingo Road (formerly Dunes-Flamingo Road)
Tropicana Avenue
Desert Inn Road
Firelake Grand Casino in Shawnee, OK can be found at 777 Grand Casino Blvd. Good Lord!
The expressway connector between I-564 and Hampton Blvd in Norfolk, VA, VA 406, is named (International) Terminal Blvd, and is mainly used for trucks accessing Virginia International Terminals.
Other than that, around here all I can think of is the typical Walmart Way, etc. There are even a few HQ Ways left signed, even though HQ hasn't existed in years (well, the Va Beach Town Center one is still there, abandoned).
On WI-100 in Milwaukee, WI, just south of its interchange with I-94, there is a big Quad Graphics printing plant. Prior to that it was a machine tool factory owned by Giddings and Lewis...before that it was a company called Kearney & Trecker.
The road leading up to the factory is called "Theodore Trecker Way," after the founder of the final company, even though the building has changed hands twice since then.
Crossroads Mall in Portage still has J L Hudson Dr, J C Penney Dr, Sears Dr as well as an eponymous drive that connect the major streets to the mall's Ring Road. A fifth road which connects to Constitution Blvd (both of which came much later than the others) was named for Dr. King, however. There's also a Meijer Dr which is merely the driveway to the Shaver Road Meijer store. Here in Battle Creek, there are a few roads named for the corporations they were built to service in the Fort Custer Industrial Park, the most prominent one probably being Denso Road.
Quote from: corco on September 27, 2010, 02:05:35 AM
There's a Cabela Dr in Sidney, Nebraska that serves the Cabela's corporate headquarters and main store
There is also a Cabela Drive in Hamburg, PA that serves the Cabela's there. Also Harrah's Boulevard in Chester, PA serves the Harrah's Casino.
Somersworth, NH has Walton's Way (a variation on Walmart Way). (There's also a Penny Lane that serves a credit union branch.)
In Massachusetts, I can think of Solomon Pond Mall Rd and Berkshire Mall Rd. Then there's Prime Outlets Blvd in Lee, MA.
There are what I can think of here in Northern Colorado:
1. Centerra Drive leads to The Shops at Centerra
2. Foothills Pkwy leads to Foothills Mall
JB Hunt Transportation located at 615 JB Hunt Corporate Dr, Lowell, AR
FedEx Drive (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Fedex+Drive,+Coraopolis,+PA&sll=40.461593,-80.174553&sspn=0.007592,0.027466&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Fedex+Dr,+Coraopolis,+Allegheny,+Pennsylvania+15108&ll=40.462638,-80.173888&spn=0.007591,0.027466&z=16) in Moon Township where FedEx Ground is based.
PA 837/Kennywood Boulevard (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Duquesne,+PA&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Duquesne,+Allegheny,+Pennsylvania&ll=40.388086,-79.865584&spn=0.0076,0.027466&z=16) in West Mifflin which runs alongside the historic amusement park.
For a formerly corporate named road, what is labeled Central Road is really Technology Drive (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=New+Stanton,+PA&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=New+Stanton,+Westmoreland,+Pennsylvania&ll=40.194479,-79.578738&spn=0.015374,0.054932&t=h&z=15) due to the SONY Technology Center in New Stanton. From 1978 to 1990, it was Volkswagen Drive for the VW plant that occupied the former site at the end of the road at old US 119.
Obvious one that just hit me: Many streets in Hershey, PA. Then again, I guess the town name itself fits the description!
what about the town of Truth or Consequences? and I think some town in Montana renamed itself to Joe.
US-18/151 NB Exit 74 in WI,
Business US-18/151, County Highway MV,
Epic Lane (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=epic+dr+madison&sll=42.986567,-89.564409&sspn=0.031393,0.077162&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Epic+Ln,+Verona,+Dane,+Wisconsin+53593&ll=42.986913,-89.57619&spn=0.007785,0.01929&z=16&layer=c&cbll=42.986914,-89.576092&panoid=ZzrJKJzCFSnuzY0xwqbnVQ&cbp=12,124.84,,0,2.9)
West of there off of US-18 in Dodgeville, there's Land's End Lane, but it's just not the same.
Kettle Ct SE in Salem, OR (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Kettle+Ct+Salem,+OR&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=28.114729,86.572266&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Kettle+Ct+SE,+Salem,+Marion,+Oregon+97301&z=15), home to Kettle Foods (maker of Kettle Chips).
-Alex (Tarkus)
The Diamond Jacks casino in Bossier City, LA had the street it was located on renamed "Diamond Jacks Blvd" after they bought that casino location from the original owner who had the street named after them when they built there...now I forgot the original name :banghead: :confused: (anyone else remember?)
Both name changes involved changing city street signs and BGS on I-20. (can you say $$$!)
I remember now...it was Isle of Capri Blvd.
QuikTrip Way (formerly E. Clayton Dr.), Ellenwood, Ga. (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=QuikTrip&sll=33.610634,-84.29889&sspn=0.008667,0.01811&ie=UTF8&radius=0.63&split=1&rq=1&ev=p&hq=QuikTrip&hnear=&ll=33.614977,-84.29889&spn=0,0.01811&z=16&layer=c&cbll=33.612114,-84.299713&panoid=pu9bYifO5o5vVWp7Xvzs5g&cbp=12,111.43,,0,8.48)
Partial one...Universal Blvd which connects you to Universal Studios (Florida)
Bausch & Lomb Place in downtown Rochester, NY is home to Bausch & Lomb world headquarters.
Let's not forget exit 6A from the New York Thruway...Stew Leonard Drive.
* Saturn Parkway in Tennessee (Saturn automobile)
* Sugar Bowl Drive at the Superdome