The Express Inn on Evangeline Thruway, ordered closed last month due to excessive criminal activity and possible code violations, escaped condemnation Wednesday.
A judge delayed condemning all buildings on the property at 1314 NE Evangeline Thruway until a Nov. 18 hearing because the owner said there is a potential buyer.
Stuart Bowie, an attorney who serves as a judge for the Lafayette Consolidated Government’s Administrative Adjudication Bureau, said he wants the potential buyer to attend the Nov. 18 hearing to provide his plan for the property, a purchase date and timeline for completion…