(City of Mesa/Submitted)
By Scott Schumaker | East Valley Tribune
Canadian-based child care giant BrightPath is planning an expansion of its sprawling daycare center network into Arizona with seven facilities across the Valley in 2024.
The expansion plans include two proposed BrightPath locations in Mesa and one each in Gilbert and Queen Creek.
The company has over 140 locations across Canada and the U.S. with daycare centers currently in New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, Ohio and Kentucky, according to documents submitted to the City of Mesa.
When the company was sold to a U.K. child care company in 2017, the Toronto Star described BrightPath as “big-box child care.”
BrightPath describes itself on its website as “a world-class and innovative provider of early childhood education that follows a unique curriculum.”
The company’s Mesa locations are planned for Val Vista Drive and Brown Road in the Citrus Sub-Area west of Falcon Field, and Guadalupe and Signal Butte in southeast Mesa.
The facility planned for Val Vista would have 14 classrooms with a capacity to hold 240 children.
