SYCAMORE – At St. Mary Catholic School in Sycamore, the growing enrollment in recent years has produced a growing problem – space.

“We’re a growing parish, and certainly as people move into town, a lot of them are Catholic or looking for a Catholic education, and we have space issues,” Principal Ross Bubolz said.

Those issues should be alleviated by construction of a 16,700-square-foot expansion called the Faith Formation Center. On Dec. 5, the parish announced site work for the expansion is expected to begin in March 2013, with construction to begin in June. Phase 1 of the expansion should be complete before the beginning of the fall 2014 semester, Bubolz said.