By Elizabeth Cook
Salisbury Post
The Salisbury Civic Center no longer has a Boundary Street address.
As of Monday, the building sits on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue ó a fact that Mayor Susan Kluttz underscored at the King Day breakfast by having City Council members join her in unveiling one of the street’s new signs.
Curtains on the Civic Center stage opened to reveal a four-part sign in green and white that will hang over one of the avenue’s intersections.
Martin … Luther … King Jr. … Ave. S.
The moment drew a standing ovation from the hundreds of people at the annual breakfast.
Kluttz said credit goes to Council Member Pete Kennedy, who first proposed renaming a Salisbury street in honor of King and persisted in his quest. The council approved the change unanimously last month.
The newly named avenue is 2 miles long, extending from Jake Alexander Boulevard to Bringle Ferry Road.
The name “Boundary Street” stems from the fact that the street once represented an 1877 annexation boundary. Some 210 individuals and businesses will be changing their addresses to Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue.