By Dan Wallach, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 11--The Southeast Texas Business Expo attracted between 2,800 and 3,000 people during its eight-hour run on Tuesday, a Beaumont Chamber of Commerce organizer said Wednesday.
The attendance at the event that combined businesses from Beaumont with those from Port Arthur and Mid-County was an improvement in comparison with the past several years when it was a Beaumont-only event, said Gay Chionsini, the Beaumont chamber's project manager.
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