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CCRI Daycare Center Being Moved Out for Goldman Sachs

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Thursday, May 05, 2016

Kate Nagle, GoLocalProv News Editor

 

 

    [ Governor Gina Raimondo's Administration, who announced in March that Goldman Sachs was coming to Rhode Island to assist small businesses, is slated to be plugging Goldman Sachs staff into the longstanding space that has been home to the daycare center run out of the Knight Campus building at CCRI in Warwick.

“We are thrilled Goldman Sachs is bringing this program to Rhode Island, providing a unique opportunity to help us move our state forward by strengthening our local businesses – the backbone of our economy. 10,000 Small Businesses will build on the comprehensive package of tools we have launched to support entrepreneurs, create jobs, and ensure everyone can make it in Rhode Island,” said Raimondo in a Goldman Sachs press release.
Daycare Forced Out
According to the Providence Center, the CCRI Daycare Center, which currently serves thirty-six children, is being forced to move. "We were notified in March that CCRI had other plans for the space," said Owen Heleen with the Providence Center, who runs the Imagine daycare center at CCRI. "It will be closing in June.  We were there seven years, I believe.  That was the only space they had available [at CCRI's Knight Campus] and we're working hard to develop a new spot."
"The Providence Center delivers services at eleven locations around the state," said Heleen, who noted that Imagine was their only daycare. "The situation is you can't put an early education center just anywhere, you need high quality space. We're close to finalizing the contract in a new place for September."
According to faculty at CCRI, the daycare is being move for administrative office to house Goldman Sachs personnel. "I inquired if the new President shut down the day care center, and I got no response," said CCRI English Professor Steve Forleo. "I understand the [day care] staff must be out in June and renovations will begin to accommodate a new counseling center which could include the new Goldman Sachs' business initiative."
"To me, this is about shutting down a daycare for more administrative expansion," said Forleo, who is the faculty advisor to the student newspaper, The Unfiltered Lens.  "Where's the community in that?" ]