Citi Jacksonville Family Center
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Citi Jacksonville Family Center
Design for Recruitment and Retention
Location:
Jacksonville, FL
Client:
Citi
Cost:
N/A
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Project description:
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KZF Design provided design services for a 2.5 mile long shared use trail through the Five Mile Road corridor for Anderson Township, Hamilton County, OKI and the Ohio Department of Transportation. Citi sought the expertise of KZF Design to design a 45,000-square-foot facility, with an additional 40,000 square feet of outdoor playground space, for the delivery of day care and after-school care for up to 440 children of its Citi Cards--Jacksonville employees.
In collaboration with Watertown, Mass. based child care, early education and work-life solutions company Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc, KZF created a “family living” center, a style of classroom set-up that is intended to encourage socialization and familiarity in children. The center incorporates a library, full kitchen, water playground, story garden, playgrounds for different age levels, an art studio with pottery kiln and an enrichment room. Other amenities include a mother’s room for employees who are still nursing their children and a system that exhausts the air from rooms with diaper pails to the outside of the building.
An area for school-age children also includes a basketball half-court, a stage for plays, a science center, an art center, and a cooking area with tiered counters where children help create their own snacks. The center’s interiors are based on a theme that reflects Florida’s natural elements—Space (air), Beach (water), and Nature (land).
Benefits:
Enhanced attraction and retention of employees due to state of the art child care facility
Improved company morale and decrease in work time lost