Keystone tour

Friday, January 29, 2010

Rex Nelson, right, director of the McCook Economic Development Corp., leads, from right, McCook city council member Mike Gonzales, Nebraska Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy and Andrea McClintic of the Nebraska Department of Economic Development through McCook's former Keystone Hotel, the center of a $4.2 million renovation project to create a downtown business center. Nelson told the lieutenant governor during the tour Friday that the creation of office spaces will be completed in the early summer, and that he expects 40-some employees when the doors come open. 21st Century Systems, a developer of software applications for military and corporate purposes, will occupy the fourth floor and install an unmanned lights-out data center in the basement. Offices for the MEDC, the McCook Area Chamber of Commerce and a McCook attorney will occupy office space on the second and/or third floors. It's possible, he said, that the sixth floor could be renovated into three condominiums. Nelson said he wants to keep as much space available for businesses that create jobs. Sheehy visited Southwest Nebraska Friday, and in Cambridge, toured construction at the hospital expansion, inspected the new fiber optics system at the Cambridge Telephone Company and walked with the new owner and production manager through the ethanol plant that will restart production in about a month.

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