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This new Vancouver daycare is sitting empty, despite a massive wait-list. Advocates say this may become more common

Dan Fumano: As child-care funding becomes a B.C. election issue once again, a new, publicly funded, 69-space daycare in downtown Vancouver is sitting dark and empty

The newly built 11-storey building overlooking the downtown Vancouver waterfront is “absolutely stunning,” says Bernice Scholten.

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The city-owned complex in Coal Harbour incorporates Vancouver’s newest public elementary school, which welcomed its first students this September, 60 non-market rental homes, most of which are designed for families with children, and a 69-space daycare.

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“It’s state-of-the-art,” said Scholten, CEO of the Vancouver Society of Children’s Centres, the non-profit group commonly known as VSOCC, the city’s chosen operator for the new Coal Harbour daycare.

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