Sticks of Fire: a Tampa blog

35 years ago…

September 12, 1971 – The Florida Department of Transportation announces plans to pave 2.5 miles of a 4.5 mile-long rural dirt road along the northern Hillsborough County line with $250,000 ($1.1 million in today’s dollars) in primary road funds sometime in the following year. The 24-foot wide lime rock base and asphalt road would run from State Road 581 – the 30th St. extension (now Bruce B. Downs Boulevard) – to an overpass on I-75 (now I-275) where it would stop. Paving the longer section of the road would make the road completely passable and offer east-west access under the interstate in that part of the county. Paving the remaining two miles (from the overpass to Livingston Boulevard) would be addressed in the future.

Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.

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