{"id":34607,"date":"2018-05-17T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/kent-street-gets-new-name-of-oberto-drive\/"},"modified":"2018-05-17T14:16:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T21:16:41","slug":"kent-street-gets-new-name-of-oberto-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/kent-street-gets-new-name-of-oberto-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent street gets new name of Oberto Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oberto Drive is now the official name of <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/QHZXmyuwFMG2\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"map\">a short section of South 238th Street in Kent<\/a>, just east of the West Valley Highway.<\/p>\n<p>A city Public Works crew installed the sign Thursday as Mayor Dana Ralph, Art Oberto, the chairman emeritus of Oberto and company employees observed. Oberto officials requested that the city rename a portion of the street to help honor the 100th anniversary of the company that produces jerky, pepperoni and other smoked meats. The City Council approved the name change last year.<\/p>\n<p>Constantino Oberto founded the company in 1918 in Seattle before Oberto moved its headquarters in 1978 to Kent. In 1997, Oberto built a new 100,000-square-foot headquarters and manufacturing plant in Kent to replace a smaller facility. The company has about 500 employees.<\/p>\n<p>Oberto paid the cost to change the street sign. The city last renamed a street in 2013 when the upper section of South 228th Street (known as South 231st Way) became Veterans Drive to honor military veterans for their service.<\/p>\n<p>Oberto announced in April that it had been sold to British Columbia-based Premium Brands Holdings, but the headquarters and manufacturing will remain in Kent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of company&rsquo;s 100th anniversary <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":34608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-34607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34607"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=34607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}