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Express Inn given two weeks to bring buyer or face demolition

A Lafayette administrative judge has ordered the co-owner of the shuttered Express Inn hotel to secure a buyer willing to rehabilitate the property within two weeks or face demolition. The hotel has been deemed a public nuisance, and the city is moving to address the deteriorating structure.

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