Today, YMCA 0officials braced the humidity and uncomfortable temperatures to have a ground-breaking ceremony at the site that will host the new YMCA facility, on the corner of Paoli Pike and Airport Road, in East Goshen.
According to Y officials that spoke at the event, the facility should open next September, and the project will cost about $20 million.
There was also some discussion about how hard it was to make the decision to close the downtown West Chester Y on East Chestnut Street and move to the 15 acres of land in East Goshen. Officials acknowledged that there is sentimantality attatched to the borough facility and there have been concerns that certain people will have no way to use the new facility. Lee Bunting, executive director of the West Chester Area YMCA, told me before the opening remarks there are plans to run a bus from the borough to the new location, to ensure West Chester residents can come to the new building.
According to Y officials that spoke at the event, the facility should open next September, and the project will cost about $20 million.
There was also some discussion about how hard it was to make the decision to close the downtown West Chester Y on East Chestnut Street and move to the 15 acres of land in East Goshen. Officials acknowledged that there is sentimantality attatched to the borough facility and there have been concerns that certain people will have no way to use the new facility. Lee Bunting, executive director of the West Chester Area YMCA, told me before the opening remarks there are plans to run a bus from the borough to the new location, to ensure West Chester residents can come to the new building.
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sen·ti·men·tal ( sĕn'tə-mĕn'tl) pronunciation
adj.
1.
1. Characterized or swayed by sentiment.
2. Affectedly or extravagantly emotional.
2. Resulting from or colored by emotion rather than reason or realism.
Describing all the efforts to save the Y in this way is extremely offensive. Every argument ever made by the Y in defense of their move has been thoughtfully refuted. It is the Y that refuses to come to grips with their role as a charity. Not only can't they reason, their organization is woefully bereft of emotion.
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