I have charged here several times although I have little personal knowledge of the area. However, there are some factual errors in your post:
1) the location is NOT "in a dark alley". It is quite open beside the bus station and the Museum.
2) nowhere near "80% of the store fronts are burned out and closed". It is not the most upscale neighborhood but it is not a disaster.
3) there are NOT "homeless people throughout the area". There are some.
As a resident of a famously risky large city, a former resident of several others, I object to hyperbole in describing urban locations. That said, some would prefer suburban shopping center locations for everything. Not everyone shares that preference.
I have to comment after reading some of these posts. I agree with everything jbcarioca said. Last summer I drove my Tesla from Chicago to Florida and back and stopped at 12 SC locations along the way, including Macon twice each way on the weekends. As a woman traveling alone never did a feel unsafe. While the SC is not in a "gentrified" or chic part of town, like the one in Atlanta, it has a lot of warmth and character and friendly people. Charging his Model S was also an African-American gentleman and his teenage son who knew the area and invited me to lunch with them at a nearby restaurant while our cars were charging. It was a lovely local restaurant and the best SC experience of the trip. If cold, sterile, suburban parking lots with chain restaurants are really your thing, then by all means don't charge at Macon, leave it for the rest of us to enjoy.