
{"id":14823,"date":"2010-12-23T16:01:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T21:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=14823"},"modified":"2010-12-23T16:03:03","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T21:03:03","slug":"new-preschool-breaks-ground-in-winmore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/12\/23\/new-preschool-breaks-ground-in-winmore\/","title":{"rendered":"New preschool breaks ground in Winmore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_14827\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14827\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2010\/12\/23\/new-preschool-breaks-ground-in-winmore\/legacy1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14827\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Legacy1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Legacy1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Legacy1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Legacy1-113x84.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Legacy1-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Legacy1-106x80.jpg 106w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14827\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winmore developer Eric Chupp, Mayor Mark Chilton and Legacy Academy owner Chris Mattucci participate in the groundbreaking of Legacy Academy, a preschool and day-care facility, on Monday.  <\/figcaption><\/figure><strong>By Susan Dickson<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CARRBORO  \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Construction on a new preschool and day-care facility, Legacy Academy, got officially underway Monday with a groundbreaking near Homestead Road.<\/p>\n<p>The academy, which owners say is intended to serve about 160 children, will provide day care, preschool and after-school programs for children from 6 weeks to 5 years old. Wendy Mattucci, who owns the school with her husband, Chris, said they hope to open the facility in June. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a need,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said, citing a study by the Carrboro Childcare Committee that found that in 2004-05, only 273 licensed seats in preschool care were available in Carrboro to the 570 families who needed such care. Legacy Academy will be located in the Winmore development off Homestead Road.  <\/p>\n<p>The Mattuccis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 initial plan was to operate a Goddard School childcare franchise, but they decided to switch to Legacy Academy because of its national reputation and teach<br \/>\ning philosophies. They also wanted to provide hot food at the school, which wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be possible with Goddard. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We just wanted to be able to provide the absolute best,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Wendy Mattucci said. <\/p>\n<p>Legacy Academy franchises about a dozen facilities nationwide and uses a curriculum that is based on brain research and the idea that everyone learns in a different way. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153That was very important \u00e2\u20ac\u201c to be able to provide that individualized learning,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mattucci said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We want them to have the best opportunity to learn how they best learn.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>Mayor Mark Chilton said he looked forward to the opening of the school, noting the shortage of day-care and preschool options in Carrboro. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think all of us in Carrboro town government are very excited about this project,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153One of the reasons that I ran for mayor was the lack of preschool and day-care space in our community.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to be really proud of the facility that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re working on,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he added. <\/p>\n<p>Several Winmore residents have expressed concern about the facility, citing in particular the morning and afternoon traffic it will bring. Chilton said the town is developing a more comprehensive plan for Homestead Road, in order to make it more pedestrian-friendly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction on a new preschool and day-care facility, Legacy Academy, got officially underway Monday with a groundbreaking near Homestead Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14823"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14847,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14823\/revisions\/14847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}