Woman Seeks to Expand Business; Needs Permission from Schools
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Land is what many people desire. In the case of The Discovery Learning Center, the land owner is the Chester County School Board. They hold all the cards on whether a small business owner gets to add a portable building to the back of the property. “It’s either be fruitful and multiply and we expand or we keep children from coming here and we just have to limit them and so it’s just kind of up to God how he is going to allow this to go,” said Owner Rachel Frees. The Discovery Learning Center is located next door to East Chester Elementary School. The school board owns the property and in the next three to five years may chose to take the property at The Learning Center and turn it into a parking lot. “The concern was that we would hate for her to invest a lot of money because we purchased that facility for an add on if we need additional parking,” said Chester County School Board Member Sam Jones Frees pays $550 a month to rent the property from The Chester County School Board. Her expansion would cost her $10,000. “I prayed for a way to be able to have a business where children can be safe until mom and dad got here after school that they would have homework help,” Frees said. Recently at a school board meeting Frees asked for permission to go ahead with the expansion. She was told to come back May 3 with a plan on paper. “She’s been given a directive to submit some drawings, pictures to us for us to consider,” said Jones. “I have to come up with a plan of how I can successfully do this and earn my money back before they might ever need to take the facility from me,” said Frees. She will work on her term paper for the school board and hope for a good grade.
