Beginning with the first industrial uses at the corner of Ben White Blvd. Because this development has followed the path of Ben White, the railroad, and other industrial thoroughfares, the industrial district has not encroached upon neighborhoods to the south. Most of the residential neighborhoods in the study area were developed after 1970. For the most part these new developments were of moderate density and of good quality. Neighborhoods to the west of South Congress are the easternmost extension of a low density residential pattern that extends as far west as West Gate Blvd.
Industrial development is concentrated at the two ends of the study area.
Warehousing and large scale material processing plants are focused at the northern end of the study area where the railroad and Ben White Blvd. Auto salvage operations are clustered at the southern end of Congress Ave. Neither area has grown substantially over the last ten years. Commercial development along South Congress is a mixture of new development and reuse of existing structures. Fragmented subdivision patterns and permissive zoning created niches for uses such as used car lots, used appliance sales, and a wide variety of marginal land uses.