I work just down the street from this.
Fellow co-workers have talked about not feeling safe just walking from their car to our building.
The homeless camp is walking distance to the central business district, which may explain why the area is perceived as sketchy and under-utilized, particularly after dark. Indeed, we recently stayed at a hotel in the Central business district (we had an early flight the next day), and we had concerns for our safety walking the streets after dark, and a lot of other people apparently felt the same because the area was all but abandoned except for the homeless and zombie drug addicts.