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Crème de la Crème Plans 50% Growth over 18 Months

DENVER-The chain of high-end early childhood learning centers is looking to grow from 20 to 30 locations over the next 18 months. Each location costs $7 million to develop.

By Brian K. Miller | Updated on June 03, 2008

DENVER-Crème de la Crème Inc., a locally based chain of high-end early childhood learning facilities is looking to grow by 50% in 2008. Company chairman/CEO Bruce Karpas tells GlobeSt.com he is in the process of identifying and securing sites that will grow the number of centers from 20 to 30 locations before the end of 2009.

The prototypical Crème de la Crème property totals three acres, costs $7 million to develop, takes seven months to build and is anchored by a 21,000-sf building with an elaborate build-out that resembles a Victorian village. Inside the building are a computer lab, arts and music studios, library, dance studio, gymnasium and a mock television studio. Outside, there are reduced size tennis and basketball courts, a custom designed mini water park and numerous play areas containing an assortment of toys and playground equipment. Children move to a new area every 30 minutes that is staffed by a specialist in addition to their regular teacher.

“It’s a state-of-the-art, educationally engineered facility that others have said looks like Disneyland inside,” he says.Crème de la Crème Ivy League pre-schools have found a home in upscale suburban lifestyle centers and mixed-use districts situated close to upscale residential communities and major transportation routes. Developers of such centers like the chain because it attracts their kind of demographic and also because it can take spaces toward the back of a center that traditional retailers have shied away from, and also are closed on weekends, when the center is the busiest.

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