How did Boulder get a child care facility? A truck brought it, of course.

There’s a new building in town, but it didn’t pop up the way most do, built in place from the ground up. Instead, this one was towed into town on a truck, traveling to Boulder from north of Helena in the early morning hours of Dec. 16.

The building, purchased by the city of Boulder with $110,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funds from Jefferson County, is set to become a child care facility sometime next year.

It took about six hours to crawl the 42.7 miles from Jim Darcy Elementary School on Lincoln Road to Boulder Elementary School, sometimes at a standstill and at other times cruising at 30 mph, averaging a bit over 7 mph overall in single-digit temperatures—but after months of planning and wrangling over funding, the building arrived at its new home on West Fourth Avenue around 6 a.m. after setting out on its journey at 12:01 a.m.