Redondo Beach’s Artesia name change moves forward
Artesia Boulevard may regain its former name as Redondo Beach Boulevard, pending an upcoming public hearing authorized by the Redondo Beach City Council. Photo . Artesia Boulevard may fall by the wayside in Redondo Beach as the city attempts to reclaim a piece of its own history. The Redondo Beach City Council Tuesday night moved forward in its attempts to revive the Redondo Beach Boulevard name for, at most, a 2.2 mile stretch of Artesia Boulevard, reclaiming the street’s previous name. The next step in the process is a public hearing to then decide the project’s ultimate fate. This would be the third renaming of the street in its history. The road was originally known as Gould Lane, after wealthy railroad developer Jay Gould, in keeping with the City’s tradition of naming roads after American tycoons, such as Vanderbilt, Carnegie and Rockefeller. The name was later changed to Redondo Beach Boulevard in the 1930s, around the time the original Fire Station 2 was built at Redondo Beach Boulevard and Green Lane. But in the 1960s, Caltrans’ westward expansion of I-91, the Artesia Highway, toward Pacific Coast Highway prompted the Artesia Boulevard name change. In 2011, with support…
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