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…
A formal public viewing will be set up after Aug. 1, and other local artists will be allowed to set up their own works on the property around the building.
Some time after that, Lansing Fire Department and possibly firefighters from the region get to take over.
Rescue workers will likely practice breaking through doors and walls to get to a fire.

— ‘Creative destruction’ in store for Lansing’s Deluxe Inn site