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Tyler Searle / Free Press Viv Ketchum, who has lived near 579 McDermot Ave. for more than a decade, said the building became a magnet for squatters and criminal activity after the demolition was halted. People bypassed a security fence erected around the property and entered through an unsecured front door, where they used drugs and pillaged the building for errant tools, building materials and copper, she said.