FLORENCE — Florence County Council has amended a memorandum of understanding with Monster in order to pave a dirt portion of road next to the company’s future Pee Dee customer-service center.
Council unanimously passed the amendment at a special called meeting Thursday morning.
Florence County Administrator Richard Starks said he expects the project to be completed without county money. Pee Dee Electric Cooperative has committed $50,000, while the S.C. Department of Commerce will support the county’s $250,000 request from the state’s Coordinating Council for Economic Development, Starks said.
An approximately 0.3-mile stretch of the county road in the Pee Dee Touchstone Energy Commerce City is unpaved. Monster, an online job recruitment and careers resource, is seeking a guarantee of the paving so it can get a loan for construction, Starks said.
The road had been intentionally left unpaved because it runs so close to an Interstate 95 ramp that could be relocated, Starks said.
The memorandum of understanding also includes the company’s developer, Red Rock Pee Dee LLC.
The company hasn’t closed on the property where the facility would be located, Starks said.
Monster Worldwide South Carolina Inc. has a temporary Florence location within the City Center, at 324 W. Evans St.
Monster plans to invest $28 million and bring 750 jobs over five years through building a customer-service facility in Florence County, the company announced June 26.
The Florence facility initially will hold 350 employees, but will accommodate a growing staff over time, Monster spokesman Steve Sylven said in June.
Maynard, Mass.-based Monster.com lets users post resumes and offers a database of jobs as well as career, money and education advice. The Web site’s database contains about 80 million resumes globally, Sylven said in June.
Monster’s announcement follows less than a month after H.J. Heinz Co. revealed its plans to create 350 jobs at a new Florence County plant in the Commerce City industrial park. Heinz’s initial investment in the county will be $105 million, according to county documents.
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