There Goes the Neighborhood

Hotel Evacuated Over Possible Meth Lab

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An Orange County extended-stay hotel has been evacuated after a possible meth lab was uncovered, authorities said. Fire officials on Tuesday evacuated the Crestwood Suites, located at 11424 University Blvd., after a suspicious device was found on the hotel's property.

If you Google map this address, you will see that this incident occurred right down the street from the UCF Campus. This is on the far East Side of Orlando, and was once considered a decent area. Recently there have been a number of incidents signaling that the criminal element is moving into the neighborhood. Some incidents that I can recall recently, is the suspected shooting behind Logan’s Roadhouse on 11674 University Blvd, the road rage incident that ended up in a stabbing death at the Steak and Shake which is located on 11700 University Blvd, The Marriot Residence Inn, which had a guest shot in the parking lot as they were checking in which is located on 11671 University Blvd, a drive by shooting on Suntree Blvd just off of University in the same area, and then there was the young man shot near UCF. All of these incidents were discussed in this earlier entry.

As we a sadly reminded of what we once had, the old expression there goes the neighborhood makes the loss all so real.