Just Kids! Learning Development Center, a day-care operation with two locations in Jackson, will establish a day care in Cape Girardeau next month.

Donnie Harris, owner of Just Kids!, said a third Jackson location is being planned on Highway 25 South. A possible site is being also considered at Fruitland.

The Cape Girardeau facility, to be established in the building that previously housed the Missouri Employment Division at 6 Girardeau Court, will be a state-licensed day care. It will be open 24 hours a day Mondays through Saturdays.

Robert S. Price of ERA Cape Realty handled the real estate transaction. Harris purchased the Cape Girardeau property from Michael R. and Cheryl Kelley.

"We're looking at a tentative opening date of May 24," said Harris.

The first Just Kids! center opened at 1327 E. Main in Jackson in September 1998. A second Jackson location opened recently at 608 Rosamund.

The centers feature kids's Karaoke, big-screen TV, Little Tyke's Young Explorer computer systems and other computer programs, and security cameras.