WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — George Washington Boulevard is one of the longer street names in Wichita. Soon, it will have an additional name — Air Capital Boulevard.
Wichita City Council members approved the honorary over-naming at their meeting Tuesday morning.
The new signs will go from East Lincoln to 31st Street South, the site of the Kansas Aviation Museum.
The people who live and work on George Washington Boulevard will still have the same address they had before. But their street signs will get additional signage, known as street blades, over it. The blades will have the name Air Capital Boulevard.
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The Kansas Aviation Museum requested the over-naming to honor Wichita’s aviation history.
“This is not renaming George Washington Boulevard,” Ben Sauceda, museum president and CEO, said. “That road stays the same, no address changes, nothing along that line. But it is an overnaming and a chance for the city, our community, to capitalize on the pride that is our aviation heritage.”