 During the late 1950s the neighborhood begin to decline the quality of life at the projects began to deteriorate, crime became an issue, and in the 1960s the neighborhood became almost completely non-existent with the construction of Interstate 4 and I-275 through downtown Tampa.Many of its residents moved to areas such as East Tampa, West Tampa, or Ybor City; a neighborhood also devastated by interstate highway construction and urban renewal.In the 1960s the neighborhood saw a series of disturbances, and two riots particularly one that happened as the result of the shooting by mostly white police officers of a teenage black boy.