Earlier this year, Taja Harris arrived at her part-time job as a manager for Extra Care Concerns on East Lancaster Street and found a man waiting outside with a machete.
Harris watched him from her car, pacing around the property with no clear purpose. She called the police but the man had left by the time they arrived.
Harris and her co-workers regularly find evidence of drug use, such as syringes, on the property. There have been break-ins, broken windows, broken security cameras, fires set around the property, thefts of copper from air-conditioning units, people caught having sex in broad daylight on the property and people sleeping on the roof. A dead body was once found on the property…