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Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Discovery Point Child Development Centers, a leading educational child care franchise, opened a school in Bradenton on Dec. 18. Discovery Point Child Development School Twelve Oaks, at 7218 55th Ave. E., provides safe, educational and nurturing environments for growing children.
Discovery Point currently has 47 locations across the Southeastern U.S., with schools in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee. Since opening its first location in an Atlanta suburb in 1988, Discovery Point has been a leader in childhood education and care.
Discovery Point Twelve Oaks School is owned and operated by Roger and Robin Clough.
Roger Clough was a superintendent of schools for 11 years in New York state. He has also taught kindergarten, first grade and sixth grade, and worked as an elementary school and a junior high principal.
It was a 12,000-square-foot building that had sat empty since it was built in the Twelve Oaks Plaza eight years ago.
Upon seeing the inside for the first time, Roger Clough said it was so empty you could roll a bowling ball from one end to the other.
But Clough, who had moved in June to Polo Run in Lakewood Ranch, knew it would be perfect.
Clough and his wife Robin opened Discovery Point Child Development Center Dec. 8. The building now will be an education center for as many as 240 students ages 6 and under.
The couple, who lived in upstate New York all their lives, most of it in Massena near the Canadian border, had searched Florida to find the perfect setting for their Discovery Point franchise. They found the Lakewood Ranch area to be perfect.