MIDWEST AGRI CHEMICO RELOCATES OFFICES NEAR AIRPORT

Midwest Agri Chemico, Inc. has purchased the former Nestle Purina office building at 94 Airport Road, located near the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport.  Tom Kelsey, commercial broker with Lorimont Place, Ltd., who represented the sellers, Nestle Purina in the recent sale, said he understood the Cape Girardeau based company would utilize the 12,000 square-foot building for their corporate operations and would relocate 25 employees from their former offices at 4868 Nash Road.

 The company, owned by Russ Mothershead is involved in the agricultural fertilizer industry and has locations in the Southeast Missouri Port and on Nash Road.  Other operations are located at river locations in St. Louis and Caruthersville, Missouri.  Midwest serves an agricultural chemical base of dealers with a variety of products and services including dry and liquid fertilizer products, barge unloading and complete bulk warehouse storage facilities.   Delores Baker with Century 21 Ashland Realty represented the buyer in the sale.

 Kelsey said the building was formerly used by Nestle Purina as their operations offices for their Pet Care division.  Nestle has a large manufacturing facility between Bloomfield and Advance that makes kitty litter products.  All support operations for this division were moved to Nestlé’s St. Louis offices, creating the two available office properties.  He said his brokerage company also sold the adjacent 9,000 square-foot Nestle building at 126 Airport Road back in the summer to NAB Automation, a new electronics business, who is in full operation.

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