I’m retyping this whole freaking blurb because WordPress wrote over this post with a new one.  From the June Decatur Focus (which is not yet online)…

The sale of the Decatur Holiday Inn is currently scheduled to close at the end of May.  Originally the new owners planned to keep the Holiday Inn brand name in place while they worked on upgrading the facility. We recently learned, however, that they plan to drop the Holiday Inn brand immediately and operate as the Decatur Hotel and Conference Center during the renovation.

The new owner will upgrade hotel rooms floor by floor and renovate the conference center.  The facility will be shut down completely during renovations of the public spaces and will reopen as a Marriott Courtyard.

Based on the schedule we received, this closing should occur after the Decatur Book Festival in September and the grand opening will occur early in 2012.  The new owners are looking at what event reservations are on the books so that they can work around those schedules.