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New Upper Albany Neighborhood Town Green Emerges with a YMCA Youth and Family Center Groundbreaking
YMCA, Urban League of Greater Hartford and Community Health Services, Inc. will collaborate in neighborhood initiatives
HARTFORD, CT: The YMCA of Greater Hartford celebrated the new YMCA Youth and Family Center at the corner of Albany Avenue and Brook Street in Hartford with a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday (April 10). The 41,000 sq. ft. center will serve as a town green style community center for Hartford’s Clay/Arsenal and Upper Albany Avenue neighborhoods, and all the neighborhoods of Hartford.
The new YMCA will be the centerpiece for a collaboration between three organizations that already provide services to the community. At the project’s completion, the YMCA, the Urban League of Greater Hartford, and Community Health Services will together provide health and wellness programs, education, youth and family development, and recreation programs to neighborhood residents. The new facility’s location is adjacent to Community Health Services’ exisiting location, truly creating a safe, welcoming town green in North Hartford.
“The YMCA’s dream of bringing services directly to North Hartford is now coming to fruition,” says Kevin Washington, President and CEO, YMCA of Greater Hartford. “From large and small corporate, foundation and individual gifts , members of the community have stepped up to support our mission to deliver a state-of-the-art YMCA facility to North Hartford, allowing us to provide both traditional recreational benefits, and programs like child development, a teen center, and our ‘Read to Succeed’ adult literacy program directly to the youth, adults and families of Clay/Arsenal and Upper Albany.”
Hartford-based JCJ Architecture Incorporated is architect of record. Bartlett Brainard Eacott, Inc. is construction manager. The project is scheduled for completion in summer 2009.
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The YMCA of Greater Hartford celebrated the new YMCA Youth and Family Center at the corner of Albany Avenue and Brook Street in Hartford with a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday (April 10). The 41,000 sq. ft. center will serve as a town green style community center for Hartford’s Clay/Arsenal and Upper Albany Avenue neighborhoods, and all the neighborhoods of Hartford. Digging in at the groundbreaking are: (left to right) Wendy Wilson, Supporter, Deputy Speaker Marie Lopez Kirkley-Bey, Laura R. Estes, Capital Campaign Chair, YMCA of Greater Hartford, Bea Powell, Chairperson, Neighborhood Revitalization Zone, Linda Kelly, President, Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Mayor Eddie Perez, Lieutenant Governor Michael Fedele, John F. Byrnes, Chairman, YMCA of Greater Hartford Board of Directors, Mark Wilson, Supporter, Kevin Washington, President and CEO, YMCA of Greater Hartford. |
The YMCA of Greater Hartford is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) charitable organization which serves more than 108,000 people in 44 towns across the Capital Region. YMCA programs put the values of caring, honesty, respect and responsibility into practice to build healthy spirit, mind and body for all participants.
Contact: Natalie Zembrzuski, YMCA, 860-522-9622 ext: 2309
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