{"id":1711,"date":"2007-05-15T12:48:29","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T17:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2007\/05\/15\/news8austin-habibis-story-has-inaccuracies\/"},"modified":"2007-05-15T12:48:29","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T17:48:29","slug":"news8austin-habibis-story-has-inaccuracies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/news8austin-habibis-story-has-inaccuracies\/","title":{"rendered":"News8Austin Habibi's Story Has Inaccuracies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Latest<\/a>News8Austin isn’t doing much for journalism with this story<\/a> on Habibi’s Hutch<\/a>, the latest daycare near downtown to fall prey to redevelopment.<\/p>\n

First, Habibi’s didn’t start out at that location as the article states. They used to be on West Sixth between West Lynn and Campbell. I can’t recall when the move took place, but I think it was 2002. They’re also responsible for this gem at the end of the article:<\/p>\n

“It’s really sad that they might have to move. There’s a huge lack of daycare and the idea of bringing more development in and not having daycare resources doesn’t really make a lot of since,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yep, doesn’t make a lot of "since" to me either.
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\nNews8Austin fails to point out what Austinist alluded to in their story<\/a> on the demise of Habibi’s. This is the second quality daycare within a reasonable driving distance from downtown to fall prey to development. Escuelita Del Alma at Congress and 2nd is still evaluating its options as its been displaced by a proposed Marriott. There’s a good chance that they’ll have to move at least as far from downtown as Habibi’s did in their last move.<\/p>\n

I’ve had kids at Escuelita and seriously considered sending one of them to Habibi’s when it was still on West Sixth. Both daycares are affordable and give high quality care to their kids. They also attract a similar type of family.
\nDaycares have specific site requirements that are difficult to fill. I’m sure I’ll attract the pro-development crowd with this post, but I’m wondering how we’re going to attract families downtown if there’s no daycare? As far as I can tell, it’s only going to be populated with people without kids, cashing in on the real estate bubble<\/a> in other states.<\/p>\n

I noticed M1EK commenting<\/a> on the Austinist post and mentioning that there were "plenty of daycares IN Central Austin. Many of them thought ahead and actually OWN their land and their building.".<\/p>\n

Really? Can you give us a list?<\/p>\n

It is unfortunate that neither Habibi’s, nor Escuelita could purchase the locations they were using, but I think that’s going to be a stretch for a daycare. They can’t be affordable and manage to make enough to buy real estate, especially not in this market. I’d be curious how the others were able to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News8Austin isn’t doing much for journalism with this story on Habibi’s Hutch, the latest daycare near downtown to fall prey to redevelopment. First, Habibi’s didn’t start out at that location as the article states. They used to be on West Sixth between West Lynn and Campbell. I can’t recall when the move took place, but […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-rB","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}