Kelly Services relocates to Shawnee Center

Business Today

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 company's new offices are being finished at the new 27,900-square-foot retail and office development at Highway 74 and Silver Springs Road.

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

Kelsey said the company had outgrown its current operations office at 1021 Kingsway in Cape Girardeau, which opened in 1999, and needed larger quarters. The Shawnee Center location was appealing for its proximity to Interstate 55 because the company covers all of Southeast Missouri.

Teresha Weinkein is the manager of the regional office.

Kelly has 2,400 offices in 26 countries and provides 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 currently 56 percent occupied. He said the development is being marketed to office, retail, restaurant and service-oriented businesses.