We the community loved supporting Edgewater Shopping Center at the intersection New Bern Avenue and Rogers Lane in Raleigh North Carolina . That support has unfortunately been taken for granted and our community is being negatively affected by the uptick in violent crimes, loitering, and owners turning a blind eye to establishments that are documented as blights and predatory. Our proud community consists of business owners, executives, municipal leaders, judges, contractors, medical professionals,  engineers, real estate agents, attorneys and everyday hard working people. We stand firmly behind our public officials that serve, protect and proudly live in our community. We refuse to allow our children and retires to feel intimidated when frequenting the local grocery store, gas station or  pizza shop. We will not succumb to the negativity and divisiveness that has recently clouded our community . 

Shopping Center owners and Business owners;  you are formally being put on notice that if you do not actively engage on the issues/solutions below , we the community will stop supporting / patronizing your Edgewater Shopping Center;

1. Hire private security or solidify your relationship with local law enforcement allowing officers to openly patrol your Center to deter loitering and crime. 
2. Install or work with the commercial property owners to install a fence at the end of Rogers Farm Lane. The fence should extend sufficiently to deter it being used as a cut through.  There have recently been 2 gun related incidents within this area, as people  flee in this direction or participate in illegal activity. NONE of which are a coincidence as criminals gravitate to and from the adjacent mobile home park.
3. Install a fence along the eastern tree line of the Shopping Center. This has become an eyesore with trash filling the area as people use it as a short cut to access the adjacent apartment complex. This area has also experience a gun related incident , a robbery and assaults'. 
4. Remove the Internet Café or allow the lease to expire without renewal. We are all for free enterprise, however this establishment does not represent our family values nor is it supported by our community. Most travel from outside of our community to patronize this business. 
5. Insist that the Dollar Store remove the gambling tables in the rear of the business. Over the past 2 years the frontage of this business has become a hang out for those playing the "fish game" tables, other gambling games, sell drugs, or simply disrespect those walking by.
6. Repair the Dumpster Pad Enclosure Gates. The gates are missing from all of the enclosures throughout the shopping center. This lends to the current atmosphere of neglect and poor management  as trash is visible from the adjacent roadways. The gates have been removed or broken from the Regency Furniture Store enclosure as well. The furniture store trash bins are always overrun with cardboard/ trash and are visible when entering from Rogers Lane. The missing gates may also be a Zoning Violation.
7. Require the Appliance Shop owner remove the appliance junkyard located in the rear of the property. Ten to twenty  appliances in various stages of repair litter the rear exterior of the building. Paint now stains the asphalt. The appliances can be seen by every vehicle that passes along Rogers Lane.

We welcome your feedback but would appreciate your immediate action. With the upcoming new development of commercial mixed use properties across New Bern Avenue behind the ALDI grocery store, the close proximity of other shopping centers east and west of this location that are better maintained, the clock is ticking for you to exhibit appreciation for the patrons that are embarrassed by what you have allowed the Edgewater Place Shopping Center to become, and we demand change. 

This petition was cowritten by Eric Battle and Rickey Baskett Sr.                       in representation of;

Anderson Pointe Subdivision, Village Lakes Subdivision, Waterford Landing Subdivision, Summer Place Subdivision, Lakeland Estates Subdivision, Edgewater Subdivision and Townhomes, Creek at the Neuse Subdivision, Neuse Ridge Subdivision, Anderson Pointe Park Townhomes, Auston Grove Apartments, Hedingham Subdivision, Beechwood Subdivisions and Townhomes, and many others that patronize the shopping center on their daily commute.