'Worst of the Worst': Blight grips Kings Park in east Macon - Macon Telegraph (blog)
The cabinets in the kitchen of this home at 3341 Kings Park Circle in Kings Park have been pulled away from the wall and the copper pipes removed. The house has been abandoned and vandalized for about a year according to the lady that live next door. She said she would like to buy the home from the owner and open a 24 hour daycare in the house. The 82-year-old farms an undeveloped lot next to his home of nearly 25 years on Kings Park Circle. As sweat beads up on his brow, the retired truck driver takes his breaks in a chair perched on the concrete slab of his neighbor’s house that burned several years ago. The main drag of the east Macon subdivision off Masseyville Road is shaped like a baby grand piano — abruptly ending on opposite sides of the neighborhood where vandalized and dilapidated houses, overgrown yards and trash reign. More than 45 years after the first houses started going up in Kings Park, many of them have come down — and dozens more probably should. “There are a few of us that keeps ourselves clean around here,” said Gray, a cancer survivor who also keeps up family property in Houston County. His neighbors across the street died off, and the children let the house go. “I hate to see it, but there’s nothing I can do about it,” Gray said. Source: www.macon.com
