It is a vision Port Chalmers Kindergarten head teacher Julie Peters has for the kindergarten's new facility, to be built next year.
The present Albertson Ave facility will be demolished in March, and while it would be sad to see their old home trucked away in pieces, Ms Peters said the community was in the enviable position of being able to rebuild and reinvent itself with a "distinctly Port Chalmers flavour".
The more than 50-year-old building no longer met government regulations for accommodating a kindergarten, she said. It would cost too much to upgrade so it had been decided it should be demolished and a new one built in its place.
While it would be funded by the Dunedin Kindergarten Association, the Port Chalmers community had been fundraising heavily for the past two years to help pay for the little things that would give the building a local flavour.
It was hoped the new facility would be complete in December 2011, and Ms Peters said she was now looking for a temporary site to hold sessions in the community.
"The new building is going to be absolutely awesome. We're going to have a purpose-built place that is a creative environment.
"We're also really into sustainability and looking after the environment. We want to incorporate nice gardens where the children can grow things."
