Grafitti artists from as far away as Chicago are expected to be in Lansing at the end of this month to paint the now-shuttered but once notorious Deluxe Inn before it is demolished.
According to excerpts from the article:
By the end of August, the defunct Deluxe Inn at the southern edge of Lansing's downtown will be rubble.
A demolition contract is close to being signed, according to officials with the Ingham County Land Bank, which bought the property for $400,000 in September.
But before it goes, the dilapidated motel — once a haven for prostitutes and drug addicts — will experience a brief rebirth as an urban art hot spot and then as a different kind of hot spot for fire department training.
About 30 graffiti artists from the area and as far away as Chicago and New York have been invited to use a symbol of urban rot as a canvas to showcase urban rebirth.
The artists will be doing their thing at their own expense July 30-31 and on Aug. 1 at the former motel on South Washington Avenue.
"We want to show there is a need for public spaces for public artists," said Joe Manzella, who works for Lansing Economic Area Partnership Inc.
Read the full article here.
Enjoy this story?
Sign up for free solutions-based reporting in your inbox each week.