Residents to Walgreens: Pick Up Your Trash!

It's not even open, but neighbors of the erstwhile Key Food have a bone to pick with Walgreens' management. 

Attendees of last week's Green Beans Not Walgreens community meeting say Walgreens, which took over the space on Aug. 1, is failing to maintain the grounds, resulting in overflowing dumpsters that are attracting vermin and lowering the neighborhood's property value.  

"Something has got to be done because they [the rats] are coming into the backyards. We have to live there," said one attendee.

She added that her niece is trying to rent out an apartment nearby, a task made more difficult by the garbage-strewn lot. 

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While the dumpsters along the side-yard are indeed in need of emptying (see our photographic evidence above), the graffiti that once marred the front gates has been removed. 

We also spotted sanitation workers on the property last week cleaning tree detritus from the planters. 

They said they would not be addressing the issue of the side-lot's burgeoning landfill on that particular visit.