MIAMI (CBS4) – From across the street, one building in Miami looks like any other in an industrial area, but the window coverings are made of steel.

The heavy duty covers are protecting the building which is abandoned. Many of the windows are literally broken. The inside is just an empty shell.

Officials say the vacancy attracts all sorts of bad things.

“It brings an element to a neighborhood that wouldn’t ordinarily belong there,” said Marc Sarnoff, Commissioner of District 2 in Miami.

 

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