>and sadly Mandarin is in the direct path of the blight.
IMO, they’d have to bull-doze a bunch of houses to put in anything more compact....I don’t see anyone selling out like that around here (yes, there are a few bad spots, but easily avoided...Unlike Mandarin/Southside & ESPECIALLY O.P./Westside)
I live in the Mandarin Area, it’s not the homes getting bulldozed I would be worried about it’s the people living in the homes, throw in the Julington Creek Area and it’s the perfect storm for problems.
In the last year at the corner of Marbon Rd and San Jose Blvd, I’ve seen a woman drop her pants and take a piss in public, a glass crack pipe being passed around, working age adults riding bicycles around at 5am thru neighborhoods looking for targets, etc.
We have husband/wife couple in our neighborhood who both are JSO cops, I asked her about the issue, she said one of the draws to this area for undesirables is the 24-hour emergency medical facility built at I-295 and San Jose, that is where local drug overdoses and other deadbeats get sent to.