USDA to bring 400 jobs to Overland
St. Louis Business Journal
October 14, 2010
The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to bring 100 full-time jobs and 300 part-time jobs to Overland.
The workers will be added to a newly established USDA operations center, to be located at the former Army Records Center at 9700 Page Ave., in Overland.
The new USDA center will centralize data collection and processing to better serve the statistical needs of agribusiness and family farmers.
The new National Operations Center is expected to open in late 2011. It will be located at the Charles F. Prevedel Federal Building, the site of a former U.S. Army federal records center. U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) is currently working on converting the center to a new resource-efficient and environmentally sound facility, which will hold LEED silver certification. The GSA plans to invest $35 million into improvements over the next five years.
"This new, centrally located facility will help standardize and streamline the survey operations conducted by USDA around the country and help ensure that we collect the best and most useful data about agriculture," U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said in a statement.
"It's great news for St. Louis County because this new center will not only create good jobs, it will also reutilize federal property in an energy-efficient, cost-effective way that will benefit our entire community," U.S. Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-Missouri, said in a statement.
