This is in Ybor City, a historic business district to the east of downtown Tampa. If you’re familiar with Broadway in Nashville, it’s kind of the same thing with a bunch of bars, restaurants, music venues, and similar all in a row on 7th Ave. Ybor cycles every few years between relatively safe and out of control depending mostly on how much police presence there is. Usually it takes three or four violent events before the police crack down but since this is making national news I expect they’ll be doing it sooner than later. I don’t think there’s ever been so many people injured at once in Ybor.
For many years, we used to have a Halloween celebration called Guavaween where the city would fence off the entire strip and search everyone trying to get in. I wouldn’t be surprised if they bring that sort of security back next year.