NEW DISTRIBUTION WAREHOUSE TO BE BUILT IN SCOTT CITY

Riverside & Industrial Fuels Drive, Scott City, Missouri

A Cape Girardeau based food distributor has begun construction on a new warehouse and operations office to be built in the Gene Rhodes Industrial Park in Scott City.  Tom Kelsey, commercial broker with Lorimont Place, Ltd. who handled the real estate transaction said Southeast Snacks, Inc. is constructing a 10,500 square-foot distribution facility at Riverside and Industrial Fuels Drive in Scott City, just off Nash Road and near Havco Wood Products.   

Southeast Snacks, Inc., owned by Bruce Schmidt distributes food products throughout the Southeast Missouri region for Interstate Bakeries including Wonder Bread, Dolly Madison and Hostess Snacks. They also handle other food lines including Tom’s Snacks and Jay’s Potato Chips.  The new facility will replace two existing warehouses the company has, one in Scott City and the other in Cape Girardeau.  Plans are to occupy the new building sometime in February of next year. 

Kelsey said the property tract was formerly owned by the Rhodes family, who has been the primary industrial developer in the area East of Interstate 55 for several years.  The industrial park, within the city limits of Scott City is the also the location for the new multimillion dollar Nobbe John Deere facility presently under construction along the East I-55 Outer Road. That sale was also handled by the Lorimont broker.