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Left to right:
• 2530 Warren Street (Union Martin LLC, September 2008) (white house at center)
  
• 2534 Warren Street (N & G Ventures LLC, May 2006, $50,000)
  
• 2544 Warren Street (VHS Partners LLC, November 2005, $30,000)

March 2007

Blairmont has a choice here. They could renovate these little HUD houses. This would be ecologically smart, saving the money, material, and energy already vested in the structures.

On the flip side, these are cheaply built dwellings, and now that they're empty, few would lament their passing -- especially if they were replaced by a large-scale urban development.

(Of course, it might have been simpler to simply not empty the houses out in the first place, right?)

Links:

• 2530 Warren 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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• 2545 Warren Avenue (Sheridan Place LLC, January 2007, $75,000 )
• 2543 Warren Avenue (Babcock Resources LLC, September 2007, $60,000 )
• 2539 Warren Avenue (N & G Ventures LLC, January 2006, $50,000 )

May 2008

Two of Blairmont's holdings here are plain 1970s HUD houses. But the third...


March 2007. The HUD house on the left is an LRA property.

The third, a historic property at 2539 Warren, was totally destroyed by brick rustlers.


November 2007

Eight months later, the corpse was still standing. Eight months, and nobody from McKee's companies noticed this?! It was finally demolished in the summer of 2008. Compassion and concern for the neighborhood, those are the Blairmont watchwords!

Links:

• 2539 Warren 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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• 2523 Warren Street (N & G Ventures LLC, February 2006)

First comes Blairmont.


March 2007

Then come the brick rustlers.


November 2007

Like clockwork.

Links:

• 2523 Warren at the City Assessor's database
  
• Aerial view from Maps.Live.com
  
• More on Blairmont