Kiddie Academy breaks ground in Oakland

Education programs will be available to the community in the fall.

By Amy Quesinberry Price
| 10:46 a.m. April 29, 2022

At the groundbreaking: Joe Neal, left, MEC General Contractors; Deborah Bowers and Daniel Melo, Kiddie Academy; Jason Glaser, Marc Lewin and John Strzalka, TCII Capital; and Mauricio Fracon, Kiddie Academy.

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Kiddie Academy Educational Child Care, a national provider of comprehensive educational childcare programs, hosted a groundbreaking for its new location in Oakland April 19. The new Kiddie Academy will be located at 15708 W Colonial Drive.

“Oakland is a region with great growth,” said Mauricio Fracon, CEO and co-owner of Kiddie Academy by TCF. “We are very happy to build another Kiddie Academy in this beautiful city.”

Fracon has co-owned and operated Kiddie Academy franchises, including those in Apopka, Clermont, Hunters Creek, Orlando-Conway, Oviedo, and Winter Park; as well as Carmel-Westfield, Ind.

Kiddie Academy of Oakland is scheduled to open in the fall and will serve 200 children between 6 weeks and 12 years old. The project is estimated to cost $5 million.

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Amy Quesinberry Price

Community Editor Amy Quesinberry Price was born at the old West Orange Memorial Hospital and raised in Winter Garden. Aside from earning her journalism degree from the University of Georgia, she hasn’t strayed too far from her hometown and her three-mile bubble. She grew up reading The Winter Garden Times and knew in the eighth grade she wanted to write for her community newspaper. She has been part of the writing and editing team since 1990.