Childcare nonprofit Guild of St. Agnes will run a daycare center as a future tenant of the Creative Hub Community Arts Center Worcester, powered by a $1-million grant from the Early Education and Out-of-School Time grant program, the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care announced on Thursday.
The Guild will create a new early learning program at Creative Hub, providing an additional 88 toddler and preschool slots, according to DEEC. Creative Hub is a $14.4-million arts and creative complex being developed in an old Boys Club at 2 Ionic Ave. in Worcester.
“As Creative Hub’s mission is to provide accessible and equitable space for our community, we realized that childcare is a perfect fit for our programming,” Laura Marotta, Creative Hub’s executive director, said in an interview with WBJ. “Not only will Main South and Worcester…