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Santiago Morales walks past the newly installed steel plates on the Railway Exchange building in Downtown 最新杏吧原创 last year. The troubled Railway Exchange building, which has been vacant and riddled with problems for years, was covered in steel plates on the lower levels in an effort to keep vagrants and thieves from breaking into the former Macy鈥檚 and Famous-Barr flagship store.
