KELLY SERVICES TO RELOCATE TO SHAWNEE CENTER

623 S. Silver Springs Road - Cape Girardeau, MO

Kelly Services, Inc. a human resources corporation will relocate its Southeast Missouri office to Shawnee Center in Cape Girardeau.  Tom Kelsey, commercial broker with Lorimont Place, Ltd., who handled the leasing transaction, said the companies new offices are being finished at the new 27,900 square foot retail and office development located on Highway 74 and Silver Springs Road.

Kelly is a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Troy, Mich., offering human resources solutions that include temporary services, staff leasing, outsourcing, vendor on-site and full-time placement.

Kelsey said the company had outgrown their present operations office, opened in 1999 at 1021 Kingsway in Cape Girardeau and needed larger quarters.  The Shawnee Center location was appealing for it’s close proximity to I-55 since they cover the entire Southeast Missouri region.   Teresha Weinkein is the manager of the regional office.

  Kelly has 2,400 company owned and operated offices in 26 countries, and provides to its customers nearly 700,000 employees annually, with skills including office services, accounting, engineering, information technology, law, science, marketing, light industrial, education and health care. Sales in 2002 were $4.1 billion.

The newest Shawnee Center business will join Station West, Q-Audio & Video and River City Imaging at the West Cape development.  Kelsey said they are also working with several other leasing prospects for space at the center that is presently 54% occupied.  He said the development is being marketed to office, retail, restaurant and service oriented type businesses.