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I would recommend your school for every person looking for a nurturing, loving, yet disciplined and structured environment for their kids.”

- Mirette & Elizabeth E.

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Site Criteria for Discovery Point Child Development Centers:
Many of our child development centers are constructed in conjunction with commercial retail developers.

Many times our parcel is considered a second tier site, behind a road frontage pad to a drugstore, bank or fast food, etc. As long as we can have visibility, signage and access, we can position into an overall master planned community, not taking a higher priced pad, but taking parcels on secondary road frontage.

These centers are an excellent transitional use between residential and commercial development. The school hours are, Monday through Friday, from 6:30 A.M to 6:30 P.M. In a commercial development, retailers like the fact that parents go by their retail store, twice each day.

Purchasing site criteria are as follows:

Ideal site is 200’ x 300’, net useable SF; net of buffers, with off-site detention and water quality.

Licensing is for 240 children.

Parking requirements are between 30-35 spaces.

We require public water and sewer.

Developer will stub utilities to the site, grade and compact the site and provide curb cut access.

If possible we’d prefer to be on the “Going to Work” side of the road.

We are a cash purchaser. This is the Corporate Office, not a franchisee.

Center specific construction characteristics:

Parking lot flow is critical. Facing the building, traffic enters from the right hand side of the site and drives under the front, covered portico.

The playground area will always wrap around both sides and the rear of the building. On either side of the building, each room has doors that exit onto the playground. These doors are also utilized as emergency exit doors.

The Company prefers a minimum for the side play areas, of 25-feet of play area, from the edge of the concrete walkway to the property line. The rear playground should be a depth of 35’ - 50’ from the building to the rear fence.

With the rear building play area, the building can never abut the property line, an undisturbed buffer, or a landscape buffer. The minimum playground size is 17,500 SF, for both side and rear yards combined. The playground area can meander along unusual property lines such as a stream, plat dimension or elevation change.

The footprint of the building cannot change, but exterior elevation colors can usually adapt to an overall theme of a master planned development. However, architectural covenants that create unsafe design features for the children are unworkable.

Our playground area cannot be near high tension power lines.

For further information, contact RealEstate@DiscoveryPoint.com
Gene Eisenberg, Broker
770.622.2112 x119