Cape Girardeau-area business history -- a look at 1999

Wehrenberg Theatres closed West Park 4 Cine.

Wieser Honda Motor Co. moved into its new full-service facility at 385 Siemers Drive in Cape West Business Park.

Home Computer Service LLC opened in Cape Girardeau.

The Buck Stops Here, variety store, opened at 130 S. High in Jackson.

Mac's Smokehouse Airport Restaurant & Catering opened at Regional Airport.

Tom Wall opened Tom's Barber Shop at Rhodes 101 Travel Center, Interstate 55 at Airport Exit.

Occupational Medical Service LLC opened at 60 Doctors Park, Suite 104.

Fabick Brothers, which provides full line of construction and heavy equipment and agriculture equipment, opened its new facility in Nash Road Industrial Park.

With $350-million-plus expansion project at Procter & Gamble Co. plant north of Cape Girardeau under way, company announced it was considering yet another expansion.

CompreHealth Medical Center of Southeast Missouri opened at 1435 N. Mount Auburn Road.

UniSoccer, sports specialty store, opened at West Park Mall.

Aircraft manufacturer Zenair of Canada Ltd. and Independent Manufacturing and Development Co. announced plans to establish airplane assembly plant at Regional Airport.

Rapco International, 3581 Larch Lane in Jackson, announced plans to expand its manufacturing facility.

Absent Secretary opened at 1416 Themis, specializing in transcription, word-processing and desktop publishing.

Wal-Mart Supercenter, 109,000 square feet, opened along Highway 61 at Jackson.

Mr. K's Food Center closed after being open less than six months.

Just Kids! Learning Development Center, daycare operation with two locations at Jackson, established daycare in Cape Girardeau.

Mid-America Title Loans opened its 68th location at 1000 N. Kingshighway.

Carts Etc. Inc. opened pre-owned car dealership at 412 S. Kingshighway.

McLeod USA Publishing, directory publisher, established Southeast Missouri operations office at Lorimont Place in Cape Girardeau.

ShopKo Stores Inc. opened at West Park Mall in Cape Girardeau.

Mathes & Frey Land Development LLC opened at 1318 Kingshighway. Development group owned by Mike Mathes and Tom Frey.

Independent Manufacturing Development Co., subsidiary of Zenair aircraft company, notified Cape Girardeau officials in May that it was terminating its memorandum of understanding with city and would not establish a plant at Regional Airport.

Brauns Fashions Corp. opened new Christopher & Banks Store in West Park Mall, specializing in women's apparel.

Sports Medicine Store opened in Cape Girardeau.

Charter Communications Inc. agreed to purchase two cable companies that added more than 1.5 million customers to its list of cable users. Purchase included Falcon Cable TV, which served customers in Southeast Missouri.

Total Image Salon opened at 124 N. Main.

Circuit City, giant retailer of brand-name consumer electronics, opened in Cape West Business Park.

Family Chiropractic Clinic opened at 210 N. Sprigg.

Standard Office Products of Murphysboro, Ill., opened service center for office equipment at 38 N. Spanish.

Pendleton Woolen Mills opened retail outlet at 2117 William in Heritage Square.

USA Mattress Outlet opened store at 1914-B Independence.

NAPA-Sappington Auto Parts opened at 4536 E. Jackson Blvd. in Jackson.

Wally Rexroad opened Furniture Garden at 18 N. Sprigg.

Prestwick Group was formed to develop gated golf community with 18-hole golf course, condos, golf club and other recreational facilities in Cape Girardeau.

Kmart stores at three Southeast Missouri sites, including Cape Girardeau, were converted to company's "Big K(mart)" concept.

Florsheim Shoe Co., which once occupied multi-level structure on North Main and later modern plant at South West End Boulevard and Southern Expressway, announced plans to close its plant by late December.

Cape Girardeau's two Save-A-Lot stores closed at 396 N. Kingshighway and 19 N. Spanish, but were reborn in new store at 121 S. Sprigg, former Del-Farm supermarket.

Lone Star Industries Inc., whose largest plant was in Cape Girardeau, and Dyckerhoff AG, cement and building materials company headquartered in Germany, agreed to merger that resulted in sale of all of Lone Star's U.S. holdings to Dyckerhoff.

Broadway Ice Cream and Sweet Stop opened at 707 Broadway.

Albertson's Grocery, with more than 2,400 stores in 38 states, entered into contract to purchase land at northeast corner of Kingshighway and Independence to build 61,020-square-foot Albertson's Food Center.

Maid Solution, residential cleaning service, opened at 1130 E. Jackson Blvd. in Jackson.

First Tennessee Bank opened First Horizon Money Center branch office at Lorimont Place Development.

Shoney's Restaurant, 161 West Drive, closed operations 16 years after it opened.

Missouri Goodwill Industries returned to Cape Girardeau, opening full-line retail store at 250 Silver Springs Road.

Jim Wilson Co., wholesaler distributor of automotive, light truck and heavy duty truck parts, tires and shop equipment, broke ground at 2007 Southern Expressway for new 93,890-square-foot facility.

KinderCare, child care center at 113 S. Silver Springs Road for almost two decades, closed its doors.

John Lashley opened Burl Products at 709 William.

Kidz Fashion Exchanged opened at Water Slide at U.S. 61 in Jackson.

Cape Electrical Supply opened new primary location and distribution center at 489 Kell Farm Drive. Its old facility became branch location.

Midwest Cash Advance opened at 1335 Old Cape Road in Jackson.

Gift Baskets & Candles Extraordinaire opened at 1318 N. Kingshighway.

Healing Garden, offering massages and line of herbal supplements, vitamins and minerals, opened on second level of House of Brides, 228 N. Pacific.

Kathy Kinder and Jill Haman opened Home & Pet Guardian in Cape Girardeau. Business provided "pet-sitting" service when owners travel out of town.