From the sale of the former home of the School for the Blind superintendent to the owner of
Rizzi Designs to the Deluxe Inn graffiti art project, the
Ingham County Land Bank is shaking things up here in the Lansing region.
According to excerpts from the article:
On the day Rochelle Rizzi first saw the grand, brick house along Pine Street in Lansing, it was “complete construction zone.” The 6,000-square-foot Colonial Revival house was once the home of the superintendent of the School for the Blind but had been vacant more than a decade.
Rizzi was on a quest to find the perfect space for her marketing firm, Rizzi Designs, and when she stepped inside, she knew she had found the right place. “I knew which furniture was going to be in what room,” she remembers. “It just seemed like a great fit.”
Luckily, the Land Bank was much more sympathetic to her cause than, say, an out-of-state multi-national bank.
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