Adding Security Gate Around Building to Keep Out the Raff!!!

[Steven Scott]

Looking at a 26 unit building that are all located at the end of the block.  Three sides of the property are facing the street.

Layout has 8 buildings,  2 in the middle and 6 on the  perimeter.  Parking is in the middle of the property.  From what I've seen it has alot of cross traffic going through, People just traveling, going to the bus stop, Bums going to get cans out of the trash.

A manager I know said to put a gate up to stop the traffic.  Brainstorming to save money, we thought the gate could go between the perimeter buildings (Actual Estimate $40,000) and not around the whole property (Guess-timate $120,000) .  This would block off cross traffic, the common grass area, and protect the parking lot.

Problem is, most of the units (20 of them) face outward toward the street, so it does nothing to protect these perimeter units.

Question is... would this gate even be worth trying to put up? Does it add any value?