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Child care is one of the most significant expenses that Minnesotan families face. Infant care costs almost $5,000 more per year than in-state college tuition and 30.8 percent more than average rent.
With costs soaring and profits evaporating, child-care providers are asking parents to pay more — or they're going out of business. The pressures are greater now in many ways than at the start of the pandemic.
Twin Cities developer Venstar, LLC expects to ceremonially start moving dirt on June 10 to build a Tierra Encantada center. It will be part of Venstar’s Creekside development in Northwest Rochester.
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Tierra Encantada's owner has built the day care business she wanted for her kids January 17, 2021 — 2:00pm Text size Copy shortlink: Kristen Denzer was touring a day-care center in Roseville for her two toddlers in 2013 when she spotted particularly unappetizing lunches. "I thought if I'm going to pay $1,000 a month [apiece], I didn't want my kids eating those cheese sandwiches," Denzer recalled. So, Denzer, then 29, decided to build the preschool and day care to which she would send her kids. She called it Tierra Encantada, and her children attended the original location in Eagan until grade school. Eight years later, more than 800 children, from infants to 6-year-olds, sit down with 170 staff members to dine on nutritious, home-cooked meals every day at each of Denzer's five Tierra Encantada sites. All focus on Spanish-immersion early education.
The new center will offer bilingual immersion, diversity education and organic meals cooked on-site by a chef for children age six and younger. The hope is to open in the fall of 2021 with a capacity for about 150 children ranging from infants, to toddlers and pre-K. It will be staffed by a team of about 30 full-time employees. While the quickly growing Tierra is gearing up for a national expansion, this will be its first Minnesota location outside of the Twin Cities. Minneapolis-based Tierra Encantada is working with developer Venstar, LLC. to build new 10,000-square-foot Spanish immersion daycare facility in northwest Rochester. Tierra Encantada offers organic meals cooked in an on-site commercial kitchen by a chef.Submitted by Tierra Encantada