With its broken windows, plywood coverings and visible charring, this abandoned motel in downtown Las Vegas is not an inviting place.

But at least one person made themselves at home.

The boarded-up former Alicia Motel is trashed inside, with a mattress, glass shards and mounds of debris and other garbage blanketing the floor of its former convenience store.

The building, less than a mile east of downtown’s tourist-packed casino corridor, is one of several shuttered and blighted motel properties clustered along Fremont Street.

They also are part of the late tech mogul Tony Hsieh’s legacy. And now, after a history of fires, squatters and other problems, the rundown buildings are slated to be demolished.

Hsieh, the former CEO of online shoe seller Zappos and face of downtown Las Vegas’ e

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