ACE BUILDING SYSTEMS TO OCCUPY SIKESTON PLANT

821 Wakefield, Sikeston, MO

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.