Learning Bottega An amazing place for kids to learn
With fun themes and an inspiring environment, multiple child-centered businesses offer a variety of after-school and homeschool classes throughout the day.
Learning Bottegas provide unique learning experiences for the whole family. It's a collaborative learning environment that empowers and inspires everyone who walks through the doors.
Our Vision
For Child-Centered Businesses
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Affordable
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State-of-the-art facilities
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Synergy with similar businesses
For Families With Children
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Community
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Safe and fun environment
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One-stop-shop for all of their children
Our Plan
We rent to companies that use rooms during school hours and then rent the same rooms
to different companies for after-school programs, creating a vibrant learning community throughout the day, and
maximizing the hours each space is rented.
Themes
Each year the facility is dressed up to reflect a new exciting theme.
Room to play
Indoor and outdoor common areas encourage families to stay after classes.
For Businesses
Consider how the following situations are better in a shared learning facility.
Chess Classes Business
On their own
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Rents an industrial unit in Costa Mesa, CA.
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Pays $2400 a month in rent.
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Not a child-friendly environment.
In a shared learning facility
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Rents a classroom for 35 hours a week
and a full-time office. -
Pays $2000 a month in rent. ($400 savings)
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Kids can play outdoors before and after class.
Classes for Homechoolers
On their own
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Rents an office unit in Santa Ana, CA
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Pays $3000 a month in rent
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Not a child-friendly environment
In a shared learning facility
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Rents two classrooms for 25 hours a week and a full-time office.
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Pays $2700 a month in rent. ($300 savings)
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Students can spend lunch hour with friends from other classes.
Martial Arts Classes
On their own
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Rents a retail unit in Costa Mesa, CA.
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Pays $10,000 a month in rent.
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Not a child-friendly environment.
In a shared learning facility
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Rents two large classrooms for 35 hours a week and a full-time office.
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Pays $6380 a month in rent. ($3620 savings)
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Siblings can play outside while waiting.
Added Benefits
Not only do the participating businesses save money, but they also have access to:
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A shared receptionist
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Storage
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Common areas
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Teacher's lounge
Plus multiple similar (not same) businesses sharing a facility creates synergy, lifting all the businesses together -- like the food court in the mall!
We want to hear from you! Contact us if you would like to bring your business to a Learning Bottega!
For Families
Consider how classes are better at a shared learning facility.
Community
Other Places
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Limited spaces for parents and siblings to wait during classes
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Students need to leave as soon as classes are over.
At a Learning Bottega
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Indoor and outdoor spaces for families to stay and play
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During classes
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After classes
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Safe and fun environment
Other places
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Entrance is not monitored
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Crowded Facility
At a Learning Bottega
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Mandatory sign-in at the front desk
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Yearly themes make a place that kids like to go to
One-stop-shop
Other places
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Only one type of service provided
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Families drive to one place for Bobby's classes and a different place for Timmy's classes, sometimes with time conflicts
At a Learning Bottega
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A variety of classes all in one place
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Something for all interests
Added Benefits
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A community of friends
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Six site-wide events per year
We want to hear from you! Let us know what you think about this project!
Not just a learning center!
Depending on location and interests, Learning Bottegas can also include:
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café
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library
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computer lab
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science lab
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maker studio
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recording studio
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pro shop/curriculum store
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vegetable garden
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exercise equipment
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“hang-out” space, including
board games, couches, foosball,
table tennis, and pool tables
Potential Floor Plans
While we have not yet found the right place, we brainstormed for some potential ways a shared learning facility could lay out.
After-school enrichment is not new.
The Jeffrey Office Park in Irvine is a good example of synergy among child-centered businesses. It is one of the busiest education centers in Orange County, CA.
But there are no common areas indoors or outside. There is no place for students from the various classes to stay and hang out.
It's just a parking lot.
No room to run.
Homeschool learning centers are here to stay.
Homeschool learning centers are popping up all over, but they are not as visible. Being part-time school programs, they can't afford full-time facilities. They primarily rent from churches.
They have no real place to call their own.
They have no place to hang a shingle.
The facility will:
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Be a fun and safe environment.
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Be a 30,000 - 60,000 square foot freestanding building.
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Be beautiful, open, and airy.
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Have lots of natural lighting.
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Be a vibrant learning community.
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Be clean and uncluttered.
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Have walls, floor and ceiling decorations that change each year to reflect the year's theme.
Get in Touch!
Let us know what you think about this project!
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PO Box 603
Yucaipa, CA 92399
909-446-5962