Charter Communications
continues to make a substantial investment in the Southeast Missouri area including a new
facility in Six Thirty Industrial Park in Cape Girardeau.
The communication giant, owned by technology legend, Paul Allen is nearing
completion of a new technical center that promises to upgrade the companies cable service.
The new signal processing will also allow Charter to enter into the high speed
internet and eventually even local phone service business in the region.
Tom Kelsey, broker for Lorimont Place, Ltd. who sold the acreage to the
communication firm said the newest Six Thirty Industrial Park business is located west of
the Dana Plant on Corporate Circle. The new operation, called in the industry as the
"head end" would be used to receive digital communications and then
re-distribute them throughout the entire Southeast Missouri region that the company
services.
Charter Communications announced earlier this year that it will spend in excess of $3.5
billion to construct more than 500 buildings nationally that will serve as electronic
nerve centers for Charter’s digital network. It appears as if Cape Girardeau will
benefit from that expansion with the Charter’s project nearing completion here.
Charter purchased the former Falcon Cable network some time ago and has
begun to upgrade the entire cable system to the newest digital technology. Kelsey said his
real estate firm has also leased office and warehouse space to some of Charter’s
contractors who are involved in the extensive upgrade projects in the area. Charter’s
location in the industrial park will be the 18th company to locate there.
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