PDAC: Submission #1164 | Dayton Development Coalition

Submission information

Project Details

1. To which Review Panel are you submitting your project? Hospitals, Health Care & Human Services

2. Project title Sugar Creek Westwood Neighborhood Childcare Center

3. Short description Sugar Creek Packing Co. proposes to open a new Childcare Center to provide services for its employees and the local community at affordable enrollment rates. Sugar Creek has a childcare model which has been successfully implemented at a number of its other facilities whereby it provides the childcare facility, furnishes and maintains the building for a licensed childcare provider to operate in. The provider can focus on childcare at affordable rates without the burden of the building costs.

Organization Details

4. Organization making the request Sugar Creek Packing Co.

5-8. Address 4249 Beerman Ave
Dayton, Ohio. 45417-9593

9. County Montgomery

10. Recipient organization Same

11-14. Address {Empty}

15. County {Empty}

16. Organization type For-profit

Organization Contact Details

17. Name Ron Holbrook

18. Title Corporate Affairs

19. Organization Sugar Creek Packing Co.

20. Telephone (765) 312-2750

21. Email rholbrook@sugar-creek.com

22-25. Address 10860 Indeco Dr
Blue Ash, Ohio. 45241

26. County Hamilton

27. Additional contacts Elisabeth LeDuc, Sugar Creek Packing Co., (513) 551-5580, eleduc@sugar-creek.com

Location Details

28. City Dayton

29. County Ohio

30. Congressional district Ohio 10th

Financial Details

31. Funding request 350000

32. Total Cost 1000000

33. Other sources of funds Sugar Creek Packing Co. proposes to manage the project seeking available funding sources and ultimately providing the balance of capital funds needed to complete the project. Sugar Creek has already entered a binding contract to purchase teh assets of an out of business Childcare Center at 4257 Hoover Ave, Dayton, OH 45246. The purchase price of the property could be used as matching funds or proof of committed capital funds from Sugar Creek to repair and renovate the building could be provided as matching funds depending on the requirements of the possible source of funding identified.

34. How the funds will be used Equipment Purchases

35. Do you have matching funds raised or committed? If yes, explain in question #36. If no, skip to question #37. Yes

36. If yes, please provide additional information. (Or, budget document can be uploaded, see question 37) Sugar Creek Packing Company has a purchase agreement in place to buy the building at 4257 Hoover Ave., Dayton, OH for $425,000 and is working on the budget for needed repairs,
improvements, furnishings and equipment. A copy of the signed real estate purchase agreement is part of the enclosed documentation in question #50.

37. Budget No

38. By what date will you be ready to spend the funds Within the next 6-12 months

39. Programs/grants for which this project would qualify We are not aware of a specific program to add childcare to the west side of Dayton.

Community Details

40. Community Need The Dayton Daily News July 23, 2023, edition contained an article written by Chris Kershner, President and CEO of Dayton Area Chamber of commerce detailing the challenges that childcare availability are having on workforce participation. In that article he talked about the need for businesses to use their corporate voice to impact public policy and to with our partners to solve the workforce crisis of today. Sugar Creek agrees and is proposing this project to address this exact need. Anecdotally, we know of the lack of quality, affordable childcare in this area from our workforce and from the area businesses that we have engaged with in the Westwood community. Several of those businesses have provided letters of support for this project that are included in our document attached to question #50.

41. Previous Funding: Has the requesting organization received Congressionally earmarked funding in the past? If so, please provide a brief project description, year funded, amount, and Congressional sponsor. I am not aware of any Congressionally earmarked funding awarded to Sugar Creek in the past.

42. Direct new jobs created 11 to 25

43. Existing jobs retained? {Empty}

44. Sustained permanent jobs? 11 to 25

45. Please explain how you determined the job creation listed in questions 42-44. There are 4 classrooms, an indoor play area, an outdoor play area, a kitchen and a nursing room in the current building layout. Based on room capacity estimates and the provider to children ratios by age grouping required, we estimated the number of care providers, teachers and staff that will be needed at the center.

46. Using your best guess, of the jobs created over the next 10 years, what will the average salary be? $25,001-$50,000

47. Is your project a workforce development program? {Empty}

48. If yes, does your program center on one of the ten JobsOhio targeted industries? Yes

Which industry? Food & Agribusiness

49. Counties in which jobs will be created Montgomery

Additional Details

50. Letters of endorsement, supporting materials, additional information. You can submit ONE PDF file that does not exceed 10 pages.

Sugar Creek Childcare Project Information.pdf (629.31 KB)

51. Is there opposition to the project? No

52. Name of person filling out this form. Ron Holbrook

53. Telephone number of person filling out this form. 7653122750

54. Email of person filling out this form. This is where notification will be sent that the form was received. rholbrookmail@sugar-creek.com

55. Do you want your project to be considered as a Community Project in the fiscal year 2025 –2026 State Capital Budget Bill? No

56. If your project type is on the list of ineligible projects (see above), please offer an explanation why your project could be eligible. If your project is not on the list, answer the question by stating that your project is not on the list of ineligible projects. {Empty}

57. Has your organization received state capital budget funding in the past? If so, provide a brief project description, year funded, and amount. {Empty}

58. Does your project have a connection with, or provide some benefit to, a state agency that has bonding authority? Please check all that apply from the following list: {Empty}

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