Instead, the Community Academy for Architecture and Design says it will be located in the Village Square shopping center at Memorial Drive and Hambrick Rd.
The school had announced plans to open on Memorial Dr. in the fall of 2019. It now says it will open in the fall of 2020.
The school is initially accepting enrollment from Kindergarten to the Third Grade. It intends to eventually expand to the Eighth Grade. The school says its mission "is to expose students to architecture and design in a learner-centered environment, which promotes creative, critical thinking, and develops conscious community leaders."
The principal of the school is Dr. Itaski Arnette, who was Freedom Middle School Teacher of the Year in 2009.
The Memorial Dr. Kroger closed in October 2017 after 18 years at the location. A Walmart opened diagonally across from the Kroger in 2013 on the site of former car dealership. That same year, a two-year-old child was injured in a shooting in the Kroger parking lot when his father interrupted a mugging.
