We returned home after two weeks away and noticed construction across the street in a building on the corner of Southeast 20th Avenue and Belmont Street. Apparently, the building and the real estate office beside it have been sold and will become a sober shelter.
The sidewalk and street parking area around Colonel Summers Park and the Century Link building are already magnets for crime, drug dealing, drug use, fires, dirty campsites and more.
The other day, when my neighbor looked around the corner of our building due to a loud disturbance, a camper whose tent was against our building threw a knife into a wooden light post just above my neighbor’s head…