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The tired BLIGHT that is spreading across Warwick - and much of Rhode Island - is not new and certainly not due in total to the work being done on the Airport. For the last 29 years - my first hand observations - Post Rd, Airport Road, Warwick Ave, Bald Hill Road, Main St, West Shore Rd, and Sandy Lane - just focusing on Warwick for now - have been littered with run down buildings and shop fronts, cracked and warped parking lots, more weeds than manicured green; it was clear that the majority of property owners took no pride in what they owned.

The business owners that leased the buildings point fingers at the property owners and blame them for the conditions; and the property owners (if you can find them) shrug their shoulders and say, "So what?"

This is not an Airport problem, this is not a City/Government problem; this is a PEOPLE problem. Why should people spend time and money fixing up their businesses and properties when their neighbors don't give a damn?

The sad truth is that Warwick and Rhode Island on the whole - sorry I'm not buying the East Greenwich, Wickford quaintness as anything more than the same old blight with higher prices - is falling apart and we the Citizens are so intimidated by the scope of the problem we don't know where to start to fix it, so we do nothing.