New Day Care Center Coming to Arlington Heights

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL — The Village Board approved plans for a new day car center on 2 acres at the northwest corner of Dryden Avenue and Kensington Road at its meeting Monday, according to the Daily Herald.

Kensington School will accommodate as many as 150 children, employ 23 people and hold morning, afternoon and all-day programs, the report stated. The school will be housed in a 15,000-square-foot facility that will include a playground and parking lot, the report added.

"We feel that Arlington Heights is a wonderful possibility for us," the center's owner, Barbara Marlas, told the Herald. "We feel you have a great community and we have long wanted to be a part of it."

Coincidentally, the center sharing the same name — Kensington — with the street it is on was not intentional, according to the report. Marlas owns and runs other Kensington Schools around suburban Chicago, including Naperville and St. Charles.

Originally, the area where the day care center is being built was zoned commercial, but real estate brokers told the village that retailers weren't keen on the location, the report stated. Officials, though, hope Kensington School will jump start development, the report added.

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