The “Beaumont Vision 2035 Downtown Plan” outlines more than $157 million in projects, including a new city hall planned for a parking lot across from the Gilbert Building, a lot also owned by ...

Nine of the buildings still considered unsafe have either shown no progress or have regressed and are directly linked to Flanagan or companies connected to him.

Flanagan, who owns several buildings in downtown Beaumont, has been under scrutiny ... including the one that destroyed the Gilbert Building. Flanagan, however, has denied any wrongdoing.

Flanagan, who owns several buildings in downtown Beaumont, denies any involvement in the fire that destroyed the Gilbert Building, which he has owned since 2013. “Let me be unequivocal – I was ...