No downtown YMCA until November

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The Knox County YMCA’s downtown location’s opening has been pushed back again.
Originally CEO Adam Sampson said that it could have been open by as early as March 2016.

In June Sampson confirmed that all of a $1 million capital campaign had been raised but delays in the permitting and construction process set the opening back to September.

Now, Sampson is saying November is the month.

“Obviously, anytime you get into any project where you’re dealing with the vendors and contractors we sometimes have to work on their timeline,” Sampson says. “We envision having a proposed date of the first of November, of course, that could change with anything that might arise.”

The building’s owner Mark Kleine was approved by the Galesburg City Council for up to $205,000 in TIF incentives on the building.

Sampson says this has not impacted the Y’s construction schedule in anyway.

The Y will have access to about 10,000 sq. ft. of usable space on the building’s first floor.

When opened, Sampson says many of the same features at the West Sandburg Drive and Knoxville locations will be downtown.

The downtown Y project begun with conversations around 14 months ago in which community members discussed how to support the community after a recent rash of early childhood centers shutting down.

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