{"id":126397,"date":"2026-01-16T23:21:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/126397\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T23:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:21:06","slug":"willowbrae-childcare-academy-set-to-open-new-location-in-richardson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/126397\/","title":{"rendered":"Willowbrae Childcare Academy set to open new location in Richardson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/willowbraechildcare.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Willowbrae Childcare Academy<\/a> is set to bring a new location to Richardson after City Council unanimously approved a rezoning on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cor.net\/home\/showpublisheddocument\/45156\/639033142537230000\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jan. 12<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The details<\/p>\n<p>The childcare center will move into an empty building at 500 N. Coit Road. The City Plan Commission unanimously <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/dallas-fort-worth\/richardson\/development\/2025\/12\/05\/richardson-commission-oks-new-child-care-academy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recommended<\/a> approval for its rezoning in December.<\/p>\n<p>Willowbrae, a Canadian child care provider, opened its <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/austin\/georgetown\/business\/2025\/07\/01\/willowbrae-childcare-academy-opens-first-us-location-in-georgetown\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first U.S. location<\/a> in Georgetown, Texas, in June and currently has five others in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The Richardson facility will serve children from infancy to 6 years old, with a maximum enrollment of 220 students.<\/p>\n<p>A closer look<\/p>\n<p>Council members and one resident expressed concerns about the traffic that would be created by drop-off and pick-up at the childcare center.<\/p>\n<p>Senior planner Derica Peters said city staff worked with Willowbrae to produce a traffic circulation plan that would direct parents away from the nearby neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCones are easy to run over,\u201d said Elise Dougherty, a resident who said she lived near the site. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be difficult to keep people from going through the neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If Willowbrae does not properly enforce the traffic measures, Peters said, then council has the option to call a hearing and consider rescinding the special zoning permit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Willowbrae Childcare Academy is set to bring a new location to Richardson after City Council unanimously approved a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[10865,4519,110,160,162,161,959,13311],"class_list":["post-126397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-childcare","tag-city-council","tag-development","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-richardson","tag-zoning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}