THE Kingsville Community Childcare group became officially incorporated last week, as they work at lightning speed to re-open the fallen Bishop St centre.

The group is liaising with the owner of the Bishop St site and looking at other building alternatives for the childcare centre while still deciding on whether they will run the centre themselves or place it in the hands of a management group.

Parent Susan Douglass said the summer holidays had given the group a head start.

“It’s been a lot of work … but I feel quite positive, I really think it’s going to happen. It’s just a matter of how,” Treasurer Amanda Barron said.

“At the moment we have an empty building laid out as a childcare centre and parents who want to go there again.”

Up to two thirds of parents whose children attended the Kingsville ABC Learning Centre are actively involved in trying to re-open the centre.

Ms Barron said she and other members of the group were unhappy with the other ABC Learning Centres their kids had been put in.

“They’re (the centres) not full. I’m not convinced of ABC’s long-term viability,” she said.

Mayor and group president Michael Clarke praised the group’s “well-credentialled, articulate” residents that had been working with a “ruthless efficiency” to make it all happen.

The group will have a jewellery stall at this weekend’s Yarraville Arts Festival as part of their fund-raising strategy.