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A brief timeline of the Tampa-Hillsborough Expressway Authority and projects. “how to finance superhighway facilities to compliment the Tampa Expressway”

“Jacksonville and Miami are doing it. Why not Tampa?”

“Hillsborough will have 220,000 new residents by 1969” and “115,526 additional cars and trucks” 1950s “Tampa’s slum clearance came to a halt in 1952…by the Supreme Court.”

“An individual’s property can not be confiscated by a government body and then resold to private interests which may profit from proceedings.”

Prior to this ruling to stop federal funding after slum clearance, North Boulevard Homes, Ponce De Leon Courts, Riverview Terrace, College Hill Homes and were privately built w/ no city or county comprehensive plan. 1950s Dobyville 1957 (+210 acres of neighborhood) Dobyville ‘area’ 2021

Garrison 1957 (+60 acres of neighborhood) Garrison 2021 (now Water Street) 1950s “A county school system survey revealed that some 1,100 negro families including school children will be displaced by the expressway.

These children are attending Henderson, College Hill, Dobyville and Harlem elementary schools. County school officials must make plans to accommodate them elsewhere.” 1960s Initial costs ranged from $280 - $370 million.

Final cost build-out is in the billions. “to run over or near at least 50 businesses” 1960s “In 1960 planners called for the city to increase population to 367,000. The present population is about 50,000 short.”

“A real functioning neighborhood is hard to grow and easy to destroy. You can’t create a real living environment on a strip of property a block or two wide. You can’t do a good job raising children when there is nothing for them to do but sit in the yard and watch the cars go by.” “Negro slums and poor quality housing mars the appearance of this same area.”

By 1980 Tampa’s population was estimated to be at 507,000. The actual population for 2019 is estimated at 399,700. 1960s “suit charges the Tampa Hillsborough County Expressway Authority for violating Fair’s civil rights”

“according to Bish (county planner), the decline (in city and county population) is a direct result of large demolition projects in the inner-city urban renewal and South Crosstown Expressway areas.”

“this (crosstown expressway) is going to be the yoke around motorist’s necks for the next 39 years.”

1970s “Already sprawling along the south end of downtown, displacing older buildings and businesses, this mammoth construction (Crosstown Expressway) when completed will provide an a entirely new look along its route.” 1970s The area “could become a regional destination for entertainment. High quality hotel, motel and condominium housing units are proposed for the area.”

“Good vehicle access is available to the Garrison Channel area because of its adjacency to the new Crosstown Expressway…” 1980s “’how did you like it?’ Harper wanted to know. ‘The Crosstown is great,’ Lou Delaney said. ‘But guess what – we got lost,’ he said”

1980s The I-4 connector concept was unveiled in the mid 1980s while the crosstown was finalized to I- 75. Final construction shows incomplete expansion work to be later completed. 1980s