Current Status – Blighted

Site Address – 186 Waverly Street, Framingham

Current Owner – Shock Auto Body Inc

Owner Address – PO Box 80615, Indianapolis, IN 46280

If you don’t know the story of Carrie Anne’s Restaurant, or the KFC before it, or the auto body shop before that one, you undoubtedly have driven by it.



The current owner is 71 year old Susan Shock – she only learned about the condition of the property in 2017 when KFC reached out to her… This is her story:



It all began 20 years ago when my late husband Paul signed a lease with KFC for 20 years (in 2000). KFC stayed open for 10 years until corporate ordered it shut down because KFC was concentrating on China store openings while many US KFC’s closed at the same time.



A KFC property manager without KFC’s knowledge leased out the space to Carrie Anne’s in 2011. KFC never let us – the owners – sublease the property out. A year and a half later in the fall of 2012, Carrie Anne’s closed. They closed one week after Sen. Scott Brown lauded them as a vibrant establishment in the Metrowest.



Shortly after the closing, the homeless moved in. They initially took to living on the roof, eventually punching a hole in the roof to get heat.



Later they stole all the copper and left the building inside and out destroyed by mold from the water leaking in. We were able to get them off the roof after 30 bags of their belongings was tossed.



Unfortunately that was not the end of the story. People have now taken up residence behind the dumpsters. KFC has cleaned up the property 3 times and even now there are mattresses and a couch behind the closed gates.



This property was to be turned over to Paul and I in 2020 when the KFC lease ends. Paul has since passed away. This once beautiful restaurant the site of my husband’s auto body shop for decades is all gone, and so are my dreams.



I can’t fight the homeless anymore … They won 😢 I just recently handed it over to a Framingham realtor, it will go on the market really soon. Its value has declined tremendously and the building will need to be torn down. I need to do something before this lease is up. I depend on that income for my monthly bills.

If you want to converse with the owner of this property, or ask questions, please use this Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/FraminghamHVN/posts/371859060081650