Tampa’s Downtown Community Redevelopment Agency plans to invest $6 million into transforming a one-mile stretch of Franklin Street. The work is designed to make it friendlier for people on foot.
Plans call for sidewalk improvements, fresh lighting installations, green spaces, pocket parks, and restored brickwork along this corridor.
City leaders will begin accepting bids for design work this April. Construction should wrap up by 2029.
“The first piece would be the design, and that would be looking under the ground to see the piping and what can be done,” Tampa CRA director Cedric McCray said, according to Bay News 9.
This street once served as Tampa’s main hub back in the 1900s. City planners want renovations to revive that energy downtown.