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A new manufacturing company will open in a closed
industrial building in Sikeston, Missouri.
Ace Building Systems
will open a panelized manufacturing operation in the former Patriot
Homes plant located at 821 Wakefield in Sikeston.
Tom Kelsey, commercial broker with Lorimont Place, Ltd. who
handled the real estate transaction said it was his understanding that
the company would assemble floor, wall and roof panels for use in
residential construction. Ace
is an international company and this will be their first manufacturing
plant in the United States.
The 112,000 square foot manufacturing facility
situated on 12 acres of land in Sikeston’s Industrial Park was
previously used by the Heritage division of Patriot
Homes of Indiana. The
plant was closed last year and consolidated into an existing Patriot
plant in Texas. Kelsey said
the previous company manufactured modular homes for shipment throughout
the Midwest. The closed
Sikeston plant was attractive to Ace because of the configuration of the
building and the existing trained workforce that had worked for Patriot.
It was expected that more than 50 new jobs would be created.
The first employees will go to work next week with full
production anticipated by August.
Kelsey said this is one of 9 larger industrial
buildings representing nearly one-million square feet
that his commercial brokerage company has sold within the last 24
months in the Southeast Missouri region. He is quite encouraged that
these former vacant properties are now being utilized for manufacturing
and distribution purposes. His
latest industrial project includes finding a buyer for the 150,000
square foot Dana Plant in Cape
Girardeau. He indicated that progress is being made.
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