The neighborhood, although scarred by highway construction, remained a notable area in Saint Paul with a strong sense of cultural identity.

Rondo ended at Dunlop Street and St. Anthony went the full length to Cretin Avenue at the Town and Country Club Golf Course.

Famous players include Toni Stone, one of three women who played in the Negro leagues in the early 1950s; and Roy Campanella - Hall of Fame catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers - who lived in Rondo during the late 1940s while with an earlier version of the Saints.

[18] Dave Winfield, the Hall of Fame outfielder whose career spanned the 1970s to early 1990s, grew up in Rondo neighborhood until his family was displaced by the highway construction project.

[19] The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 provided funding to American cities to build a network of freeways, necessitated by greater automobile use nationwide.

[14] Other negative outcomes of the route chosen include the separation of the Minnesota State Capitol building from the commercial district of Downtown St. Paul, and some inconvenience for the Prospect Park neighborhood in Minneapolis.

[22] During the years of planning and preparation for the Green Line (the second main route of the Twin Cities Light Rail Transit system, originally known as the Central Corridor project), attention was re-focused on the Rondo Neighborhood and its history.

A specific action taking by groups concerned about the Green Line was a lawsuit filed against local project planners and the Federal Transit Administration by the NAACP, Alliance for Metropolitan Stability, Rondo residents and businesses and other organizations including Pilgrim Baptist, the state's first Black church.

They charged that the Metropolitan Council inadequately engaged in mitigating efforts on poor people and minorities, potentially repeating Rondo's results.

On the national level, the Federal Transit Administration changed its so-called cost-effectiveness index, which had given preference to shorter travel times and longer distances between stops.

[23][5][24] In 2016, MNDOT Commissioner Charlie Zelle and St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman together formally apologized for the way the interstate construction was handled.

It includes a vertical exhibit displaying the Rondo story, benches, a performance area, and a tower with a lit beacon that is visible from I-94.

[25] Funds were provided by a variety of sources, including a Community Development Block Grant from the City of St. Paul and donations from several local foundations and the 3M African-American Employee Network.

[7][3][8][40] In 2017, the Minnesota History Theater presented a work called The Highwaymen to explore how freeway construction affected the neighborhood and people.

Called Rondo-opoly, the game design incorporates the traditions of Monopoly with the details replaced by historical facts about Rondo's history.

Brown center, in operation since 1929, drew from its archives to prioritize historical locations and substantiate details about Rondo in creating the game.