{"id":281,"date":"2016-07-24T18:42:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T18:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=281"},"modified":"2016-07-24T18:45:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T18:45:05","slug":"ouellette-avenue-to-be-renamed-the-big-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"Proposal for Ouellette Avenue to be renamed The Big O"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Windsor, ON – Windsor city council member Frank Edwards will be unveiling a plan at this week\u2019s city council meeting to rename Ouellette Avenue to a new name that he believes will be a tourist draw, The Big O. \u201cI think it is in the best interest of the city to rename Ouellette\u201d stated Mr. Edwards at a press conference on Friday.
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\u201cIt is really just about branding\u201d he said, adding \u201cthink about it, New Orleans has Bourbon Street and New York has Broadway, I think Windsor should have a\u00a0marketable name for our main street\u201d. Mr. Edwards said he came up with the name when he overheard his wife talking to some friends over coffee last month and his wife was mentioning that she never gets the Big O. \u201cI wasn\u2019t sure what that was all about exactly but I liked the sound of The Big O and thought, hey, we could use that as a street name in Windsor\u201d he excitedly explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cImagine what our tourism department could do with this, \u2018Come to Windsor for the Big O\u2019, I think it is great marketing opportunity and besides most visitors don\u2019t even know how to pronounce Ouellette. I want to give people coming to Windsor The Big O\u201d said the councilman.<\/p>\n

When asked about how the name originated Mrs. Edwards\u00a0commented \u201cit\u2019s probably not that bad of an idea at least someone in Windsor will be getting The Big O\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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