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SMC ELECTRIC SUPPLY PURCHASES WAREHOUSE

2333 Rusmar - Cape Girardeau, MO
SMC Electric Supply will relocate to a much
larger facility in Cape Girardeau.
Tom Kelsey, commercial broker with Lorimont Place, Ltd.
announced the electrical supply company based out of
Springfield, Missouri has purchased a 26,650 square foot
warehouse building located on 8 acres at 2333 Rusmar.
Kelsey said the former Paramount Liquor Distributorship
facility built in 1983 has over 4,700 square foot of offices and
showroom that SMC will remodel into a parts counter,
product showroom, training area and regional offices.
SMC purchased the former
Schott Electric Supply Company in Cape Girardeau back
several years ago and has been in operation at 1109 N.
Kingshighway under the SMC name for the last year or so.
The warehouse and showroom on Rusmar will allow the
company to expand their product inventory and also use the
larger facility for a regional distribution center for their
other branches in the region.
The company recently opened a new branch in
Poplar Bluff. They
have ten electrical distribution operations in all, including
Sedalia, Lebanon,
Belton, Chillicothe, Monett,
Joplin, Springfield, Poplar Bluff, and Cape Girardeau all in
Missouri and Coffeyville in Kansas.
The business opened in 1950 in Springfield, Missouri by
Everett Squires as Southern Supply, an electrical and plumbing
supplier. In 1975
the company was divided into two divisions and SMC Electrical
Supply was formed.
SMC is still owned by the Squires family and is a
stocking distributor of electrical, industrial hardware,
automation controls and data communication products.
Kelsey said he expects them to be in their
new Rusmar location, which is directly off of South Kingshighway
sometime in the late spring or early summer.
No sales price was disclosed, but the
Lorimont website listed the property
with the additional acreage at $1,028,000
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