Willie Nelson Boulevard (Austin -R)
Saracenus
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I follow a twitter feed from someone who works on Austin City limits and she retweeted this link:2nd Street renamed for Willie Nelson - statesman.com
Harvey, why haven't you been on top of this?Part of Second Street will now bear the honorary name Willie Nelson Boulevard.The City Council approved the change this morning as a tribute to the singer, who has lived in the Austin area nearly 40 years and sold more than 50 million records.The city will install Willie Nelson Boulevard signs this summer at every block along Second Street from Trinity Street to San Antonio Street. The formal name, mailing addresses and street signs for Second Street will stay the same, but residents and businesses along the street will be able to receive mail using the Willie Nelson Boulevard address, said Mayor Lee Leffingwell, who proposed the idea.A nonprofit group, Capital Area Statues, is raising money to put a full-size statue of Nelson on Second Street, in front of the new Austin City Limits studio. That nonprofit commissioned the sculpture and unveiled a smaller version of it earlier this month.
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Yep, that's the absolute trendiest strip of Austin street...even looks like San Francisco to the eye.
I have mixed feelings about changing street names. It's not such a big deal for residential owners but for businesses it can be a major pain. We purchased a property on what was Portland Blvd and is now Rosa Parks Way.
Though I remember when someone made some Malcolm X Blvd Stickers that matched perfectly the Portland street signs and put them up on major downtown street along our waterfront. People flipped out. We even had a city councilor say it was, "an act of terrorism." I laughed pretty hard at that hyperbole.
1st Street in Austin was renamed C?sar Ch?vez Blvd back in 1996 I believe.
The year I lived in Eugene, there was a huge uproar over the prospects of renaming the street Autzen Stadium is on (I forget its old name) to Martin Luther King Blvd. I guess the proposal eventually passed, but damn there were some bad looks as that was being discussed...especially considering that the only black people in that town play in that stadium.
I mean I understood while all the businesses had a gripe (its not cheap to change all your business cards, letterhead, advertisements, yellow pages, etc.). Some shops used the Union street name in their business name.
It still didn't excuse some of the more shady crap people were saying about who they were naming the street for.