Avenue de Paris Avenue de Paris Avenue de Paris is a seaside, palm-lined street in Beirut, Lebanon. The avenue, which forms with Avenue General de Gaulle the Corniche Beirut promenade, is popular with rollerbladers, cyclists and joggers. The municipality of Beirut initiated in 2001 an embellishment of the Avenue de Paris section of the Corniche Beirut, a project that was conceived and designed by Lebanese artist, Lena Kelekian. The project included the replacement of the 76 cement benches with new ones covered with colorful cut ceramics as well as a Mega Chessboard on the widest section of the sidewalk. The U.S. embassy, which
Roosevelt Avenue, Quezon City owner Demetrio Muñoz, a philanthropist, businessman and a presidential adviser during the term of Diosdado Macapagal from the province of Pampanga. At the opposite end of Roosevelt on Quezon Avenue is Fisher Mall, the city's newest shopping center. Roosevelt Avenue is also home to the transmitter of television station Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation (IBC-13), which will soon to be dismantled. In 2010, a bill was authored in Congress by Quezon City District I Representative Vicente Crisologo renaming the avenue after his predecessor, former Representative Reynaldo Calalay. This bill is still pending with the Senate Committee on Public Works and Highways as