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• 2501 Sullivan Avenue (Dodier Investors LLC, November 2006)

October 2008

This industrial building represents a remarkable opportunity in a residential neighborhood -- the chance to create jobs right in the community. Imagine working and living all in the same neighborhood! A hardy factory building like this is prime material for a specialty manufacturing concern; it could also function as an incubator for new businesses. With loading docks for trucks, it's equipped to handle all sorts of heavy duty materials. Restore the windows and landscape the parking lot, and it could even be a thing of beauty in its own right.



Next door, Blairmont owns another fine opportunity at 2527 Sullivan. A one-story industrial building was recently razed (the saw-tooth-roofed building that remains is not a Blairmont property.) The resulting empty land could hold virtually anything -- houses, apartments, or a multi-story commercial, industrial, or mixed-use building. The possibilities are limited only by imagination.

Links:

• 2501 Sullivan at the city's Geo St Louis database
  
• Aerial view from Maps.Live.com, with 2527 Sullivan at left.
  
• More on Blairmont:
  Built St. Louis || Ecology of Absence || What Can I Do?

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• 2500 Sullivan Avenue (MLK 3000 LLC, May 2007, $150,000)

August 2008

A pretty ragged looking four-flat for $150K! You'd think Blairmont could board up those ground floor windows... or at least hang some curtains! The senior citizens living in the huge retirement complex right across the street might appreciate that. Still, the building overall looks to be in good condition... it's just the ground floor that's taken a beating under Paul McKee's ownership.



That's the brick rustled ruins of 2510 Sullivan next door.


February 2008

Well, it was probably those people who made it look this way, right? You know, those people, wink wink, nudge nudge. We all know those people don't take care of anything. Everybody knows that those people trash their neighborhoods and destroy everything good that whit--- uh -- normal hard working folks have built up, and just sit around waiting for a handout from the gub'ment. We all know you just can't do anything about those people, yuh huh!

Since everybody knows these things, let's see how this raggedy house looked while in the hands of those people, before a hard working businessman from the suburbs purchased it.


August 2003 - photograph by Kevin Kieffer

Boy, just look at it! Those people haven't done anything except plant beautiful flowers and keep the lawn mowed and the windows intact and generally maintain the place in perfect repair. Boy howdy, it sure is a good thing the neighborhood is finally being saved from those people!

Links:

• 2500 Sullivan at the city's Geo St Louis database
  
• Aerial view from Maps.Live.com
  
• More on Blairmont:
  Built St. Louis || Ecology of Absence || What Can I Do?

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• 2510-12 E. Sullivan Avenue - built 1905

February 11, 2008

Blairmont is not noted for keeping its properties in the best of repair.

The building's ruins stand in the north end of the St. Louis Place neighborhood. It was intact when "N & G Ventures LC" purchased it May 2006.

Price bounce: First sold in 2005 for $4,000, bought from an owner-occupant. Then in May 2006, N & G bought it for $140,000. Good LORD! Are the bricks made of gold?

Links:

• 2510-12 at the City Assessor's database
  
• Aerial view from Maps.Live.com, showing the house while still intact.
  
• More on Blairmont