The first formal step in the building of the new Door Community Child Development Center in Sturgeon Bay occurred Friday afternoon near the Gordon Road and Old Highway Road intersection. Dozens of community members attended the groundbreaking for the new 18,500-square-foot facility.  Executive Director Alexis Fuller, who co-founded the center with her sister Bridgett Starr, says the new facility will help meet a great need in the community and accommodate some of the 100 families who are on their waiting list.

The new center, which is projected to open next January, will be almost three times the size of the current facility at 1743 Egg Harbor Road.  It will also have the capacity to accommodate 146 children six weeks to five years of age, compared to the current license capacity of 83 children.  The new facility will also be home to a new Head Start program.   The Door Community Child Development Center, which opened in 2020, currently employs 28 women.  You can listen to the entire conversation with Alexis Fuller and Bridgett Starr below.