Heather Borden Herve, GMW Editor
May 10, 2023
With the recent spate of medical spaces and apartment buildings planned along the Rte. 7 corridor, the property at 225 Danbury Rd. owned by Our Lady of Fatima (OLF) and the Catholic Church’s Bridgeport Diocese sitting empty since OLF Catholic Academy closed last year could have been ripe for commercial development.
But instead, a group of charter school developers has struck a deal to lease the building and, by August 2024, they plan to open a private school there geared to children in pre-K through sixth grade, with hopes to eventually grow it through eighth grade as well.
With the recent spate of medical spaces and apartment buildings planned along the Rte. 7 corridor, the property at 225 Danbury Rd. owned by Our Lady of Fatima (OLF) and the Catholic Church’s Bridgeport Diocese sitting empty since OLF Catholic Academy closed last year could have been ripe for commercial development.
But instead, a group of charter school developers has struck a deal to lease the building and, by August 2024, they plan to open a private school there geared to children in pre-K through sixth grade, with hopes to eventually grow it through eighth grade as well.
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