Seven Oaks child-care properties on the block

FORT COLLINS – A network of seven highly regarded child-care centers stretching from Fort Collins to Westminster is being sold by its founders, one-by-one, to individual investors. Two of the centers are in Longmont, and one is in Louisville.

The Seven Oaks Academy buildings in east Fort Collins and another in Westminster, already have been sold and a letter of intent has been inked on a third.

Founders of the Seven Oaks chain quietly sold their business operations in March 2005 to the global, publicly held Bright Horizons Family Solutions (Nasdaq: BFAM). The Boston-based company operates 600 early childhood education…