Business Wire -- More than 200 city officials and clients from Beaumont, Texas, and the surrounding region, recently celebrated the official re-grand opening of the newly renovated Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites – Beaumont Plaza in Texas. The hotel and adjacent convention center underwent a $7.5 million makeover after weathering Hurricane Ike. The eight-story, 253-room/suite hotel and adjacent 22,000-net-square-foot meeting facility are operated by Springfield, Mo.-based John Q. Hammons Hotels & Resorts (www.jqhhotels.com), the nation’s leading independent builder, developer, owner and manager of upscale, full-service hotels, resorts and suites.
