In fact, Ella Fitzgerald wrote her hit "A Tisket a Tasket" at the historic Jackson House on Scott Street.

The tiny 1/4 of a mile neighborhood was also home to at least 3,000 residents many of whom lived in the Central Park Village projects.

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.

In recent years the City of Tampa has worked hard to make Central Park a safe, urban, mixed-race, and mixed-income neighborhood.

They demolished the aging Central Park Village Projects in order to make room for new development called Encore in partnership with Bank of America.