Daily Dose of Blairmont 104

Welcome to the 2500 block of Dodier Street, in the JeffVanderLou neighborhood. Here is an entire block laid to waste by Paul McKee's absentee shell companies. Arson and brick rustling have destroyed every building on the block's western end... except for one holdout, a profitable business that has refused Blairmont's offers of buy-out. Now they find themselves surrounded by a ghost town, a landscape of devastated architecture, buildings smashed by the hammer of McKee's speculatory schemes.

The southern half of the block, west to east:

• 2566 W. Dodier Street (Sheridan Place LLC, March 2007, $85,000)
  
• 2560 W. Dodier Street (Larmer LLC, April 2008)
  
• 2554 W. Dodier Street (LRA)
  
• 2546 W. Dodier Street (Blairmont Associates Ltd. Co., August 2004)
  
• 2540 W. Dodier Street (privately owned - not pictured)
  
• 2538 W. Dodier Street (privately owned - not pictured)
  
• 2534 W. Dodier Street (VHS Partners LLC, November 2005, $38,000)
  
• 2532 W. Dodier Street (privately owned - not pictured)

2566 W. Dodier - May 2008. Burned in the May 2008 arsons.


2560 W. Dodier - May 2008. Destroyed by brick rustlers.


2546 W. Dodier - May 2008. Destroyed by brick rustlers.

The northern block, east to west:

• 2515 W. Dodier Street (privately owned)
  
• 2517 W. Dodier Street (N & G Ventures LLC, May 2006, $65,000)
  
• 2525 W. Dodier Street (Larmer LLC, April 2008)
  
• 2527 W. Dodier Street (privately owned)
  
• 2547 W. Dodier Street (Larmer LLC, April 2008)
  
• 2549 W. Dodier Street (Clarence Machine Company)
  
• 2559 W. Dodier Street (Sheridan Place LLC, May 2007, $75,000)
  
• 2561 W. Dodier Street (Sheridan Place LLC, May 2007)

2517 W. Dodier (left) - May 2008


2525 W. Dodier - May 2008


2547 W. Dodier - May 2008. Burned in the May 2008 arsons.


The besieged commercial building, at 2549 W. Dodier - May 2008


2559 W. Dodier - May 2008. Destroyed by brick rustlers.


2561 W. Dodier (left) - May 2008. Burned, date unknown.

Blairmont also owns most of the vacant lots between the surviving buildings.

Links:

• 2525 W Dodier at the city's Geo St Louis database
  
• Aerial view from Maps.Live.com
  
• More on Blairmont:
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