Abandoned Meat Packing Plant - 500 E River Street
The old Nesbitt Meat Packing Plant closed down in 1941, and the building hasn’t been leased since. The equipment was sold at auction, and now the place is nothing more than a big, rotting warehouse. The plant's buildings are boarded up and decaying. One shack has an intact roof. Local urban legend has it that humans - runaways, illegal immigrants, and other transients - were butchered here, their remains canned and sold as pet food.
These reports are totally unsubstantiated but may stem from a tainted meat scandal in the late 1930s. Still, the locals insist that unearthly noises can occasionally be heard from within. The indigents, who would normally flock to such a spacious refuge, harbor a great loathing for this building.
The 'Finns have recently made a headquarters in an abandoned shack here on the grounds of the old Nesbitt Meat Packing Plant.
The 'Finns: the name is derived from Sean Finn, a reference mostly lost on present members of the group, who even spell it "fins".) They follow O'Bannion's operations with great interest; the talented and the obedient can look forward to jobs from him as they mature.
Gang members indulge in petty thievery and an occasional burglary, but there's not much to buy in New Jerusalem, and there's no fence here who'll trust kids. Mostly they gather on corners and in vacant lots to talk and posture.
The Irish gang feels safest in most of the French Hill district, while the Italians favor the Lower Southside east of Garrison and south of Pitman.
Chances of police walking through this abandoned plant are nil.
Type
Slaughterhouse
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