Since this is located on Hamilton Mountain I guess it goes to "Downtown and City of Hamilton" section instead of the suburb section.
Les Chater Family YMCA
The new multi-centre complex is being built in Turner Park on Rymal Road, just east of Upper Wellington. It will offer Y programs and services, health care services in partnership with Hamilton Health Sciences, and a licensed child care centre. It will also include a new branch of the Hamilton Public Library, along with the existing police station on the site, city-run sports fields and a children’s playground, and a soon-to-be-built skateboard park.
The Les Chater Family YMCA honours Les Chater, who passed away last month at the age of 97. A YMCA member since he was 10 years old, Mr. Chater was a retired engineer at Stelco and the benefactor of a $1-million donation to support the building of the Mountain YMCA.
The $18-million facility has been the focus of a fundraising campaign, with large and small gifts made from across the city and beyond, including a $2-million gift from the Ontario government and $500,000 from the Chedoke Health Corporation. Today’s ground-breaking event also marks the start of a community campaign on Hamilton Mountain to raise the remaining $600,000
needed to fund the project.
The Les Chater YMCA is slated to open in 2009.
“The YMCA has operated a branch on Hamilton Mountain from 1959 until 1982 and we are pleased to return to this community,” Ms. Flaherty says.
* The Les Chater Family YMCA is being built as a multi-centre complex with a new building to house YMCA programs and services, a day care centre, health care services provided in partnership with Hamilton Health Sciences, and a public library branch. The complex will be located in the City of Hamilton’s Turner Park and will also include a police station - already on the site - city-run sports fields and children’s playground, and a skateboard park to be built by the municipality.
* The YMCA itself will include a licensed child care centre (for 34 preschool children), a pool and aquatics centre, meeting facilities, gymnasium, conditioning centre and five change rooms – including a family change room.
* Rehabilitation programs will be offered in YMCA facilities, in partnership with Hamilton Health Sciences.
* The Les Chater Family YMCA will occupy 53,000 square feet of space, including a common foyer. The adjoining Hamilton Public Library branch will occupy 25,000 square feet.
* The YMCA facility will serve approximately 9,000 people annually.
http://www.ymcahb.on.ca/locations_hamiltonmount.cfm
Some photos that I have of the building under construction....
I'll try and get some better pictures of the entire complex soon.