The 17-year-old child care center on South County Trail gets permission to build a new facility about a mile south.
The Planning Board granted preliminary approval last week to plans for a new building for Stork’s Nest Child Academy, which upon completion will move from its current address of 2260 South County Trail to 3116 South County Trail. The process to get this far took longer than owner Barbara Izzo had anticipated when she started the process three years ago. Now that construction is only weeks away from beginning, however, Izzo was feeling relieved. “This is the day I’ve been waiting for,” she said after the Planning Board meeting Jan. 16. The site for the new child-care center may be familiar to many in town because the house there now burned a couple years ago. Since then, it’s been used by town police and fire departments for training …
A long-time relationship if fracturing over a new EGHA requirement that London Bridge Learning Center clientele be 40 percent EGHA tenants.
The East Greenwich Housing Authority usually operates in relative obscurity, but a conflict between the federally-funded agency and London Bridge Learning Center, which uses its space free of charge, could bring it more attention. London Bridge has operated a daycare center at Marlborough Crossings, a cluster of public housing units located between Marlborough, London, and Duke streets in downtown East Greenwich. Recently, the EGHA asked London Bridge for three changes in their relationship. First, it said it would require a signed lease — up until now, there had been no written lease. Second, it told London Bridge it would have to move out of housing space the EGHA let the center expand into several years ago. Third, it required that 40 …
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8:53 am on Tuesday, January 22, 2013
And very near the wonderful "positive" entrance to the wonderful EG will be yet another empty building left behind by the Stork. more ›