First, I'll believe it when I see it. A year is a long way off.

Second, the gazette should just change their name to 'THE METROPLEX DAILY'! They appear to be the plex's cheerleader!

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Correction

    A story in Friday’s Daily Gazette on the YMCA opening a new fitness center downtown incorrectly stated that Schenectady County Community College’s volley ball team will play its games in the YMCA’s new gymnasium. The college does not have a volley ball team. The incorrect information was contained in a news release.

http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01508&AppName=1

The Y is millions short and lacks a swimming pool. This is better than an a hockey rink or indoor soccer facility? Only in socialistic Schenectady is a nonprofit that pays zero tax, that may move 4 blocks, a positive development. Center City remains a taxpayer hole where a retail store once stood. This changes nothing.

A nonexistent volley ball team will play here-lol! Who is the fact checker at the Gazetto? Maybe the County taxpayers should fund a volleyball team? Part of Obama's stimulus program.

  Then fans can go to the nonexistent bar next door The Big House. According to Metrograft's Death Ray this will be a catalyst for the "renaissance" Downtown. So stunad only the Gazetto could make it up.

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The college does not have a volley ball team. The incorrect information was contained in a news release.

I wonder where that news release come from.  Certainly it wasn't the college ?

The college "information" office-or the busy Metrograft fax. Either way produced by DEM cheerleaders.

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The college "information" office-or the busy Metrograft fax. Either way produced by DEM cheerleaders.

The gazette IS the cheerleaders for the plex and the city/county government. And I'm sure the gazette is thankful for them, cause if they didn't have the plex or the city/county's bidding to do.....they would have nothing!

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Former white elephant reborn
Schenectady's new $27M Center City office project to include YMCA facility

By LAUREN STANFORTH, Staff writer
First published in print: Monday, November 30, 2009

SCHENECTADY -- The cast-iron, carved pillars of a 19th-century department store were hidden behind Sheetrock, and the homeless occasionally slept near the defunct indoor soccer arena.

But Schenectady's Center City, a massive mash-up of two historic buildings and a late-1970s addition, is preparing to rise again as its reconstruction in the middle of downtown moves closer to completion next summer.

Rotterdam's Galesi Group, which bought the complex two years ago from the city and developer Robert Lupe, received $3 million in local and state money to refurbish the space and is bonding the rest of the $27 million project itself.



Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/AspS.....0/2009#ixzz0YLOSLQOQ

I never really thought that the Y would be a good fit right in the middle of the downtown section. But apparently it will never be the 'retail' mecca  it once was.

SCCC still does not have a volleyball team-but that doesn't stop the kool aid drinkers at either paper.

The Y should have gone at the Mohawk Honda site----like a mecca of sorts......

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SCHENECTADY
YMCA faces room rental decision
Residents staying when new Y opens
BY MICHAEL LAMENDOLA Gazette Reporter

    When the Capital District YMCA opens a new $3.5 million facility in the former Center City downtown on Tuesday, the site will serve approximately 1,500 members of the Schenectady branch.
    Missing from this big change for downtown be 185 men. They will continue to call 13 State St. — the YMCA’s current address — home, at least until 2013.
    The YMCA residency program provides low-cost rooms for men. Some are homeless or in drug or alcohol rehabilitation programs; some are there because the rooms are inexpensive.
    But YMCA CEO and President J. David Brown said the Y is looking to move away from the residency business, to focus instead on wellness and youth programs.
    The new downtown facility will contain a children’s area and teen center, a spin studio (which does not exist at the current site), aerobics studio and cardio and strength-training equipment.
    The YMCA plans to make an announcement about the future of the residency program in August 2011, Brown said. “We are looking for a new home in the city, that is our priority, but we are not having any luck,” he said. “My objective is to make sure they have a home.”
    The YMCA may spin off the residency program as a separate corporation, said Marie Bosman, chairman of the Schenectady YMCA Advisory Board. The YMCA, for example, already operates a separate corporation for its senior housing program, called Mont Pleasant Housing.
    The 2011 deadline would give the YMCA at least two years to work out a transition for the Schenectady program, Bosman said, since the Y has a contract with the state and county to run the residency program through 2013. It also has an agreement to sell the 13 State St. building to the Metroplex Development Authority in 2013.
    Margaret Anderton, executive director of Bethesda House, said a group of agencies, called the Homeless Services Providers Board, is trying to help the YMCA solve its dilemma.
    “The board has a ton of different options. Without that particular building, we would have to look at if there is another place to house 185 men in a single-room occupancy building, or do we place them in scattered site apartments,” Anderton said.
    Anderton said the housing programs should be maintained. “They are affordable beds. Whether one agency takes it or different agencies take parts of it, there will a solution.”
    Anderton also said a solution should attempt to address what is best for residents and what is best for the community.
    Bosman said the residency program has not been popular with neighbors. “There has been a lot of opposition to the program and to keeping it here. People have accused the YMCA of purposely keeping the program here, but that is not true. There is a formal contract.” .............>>>>................>>>>.............http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01301&AppName=1

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YMCA opening
scheduled today
    SCHENECTADY —The Schenectady branch of Capital District YMCA will open its $3.5 million facility in the former Center City on State Street at 11 a.m. today .
    The 28,000-square-foot facility contains a teen center, wellness center, fitness center, steam and sauna rooms, spinning room, children’s corner and lockers. It will not contain a swimming pool.
    It also will contain a day care facility that can accommodate up to 90 children and a National Collegiate Athletic Association regulation-sized gymnasium that Schenectady County Community College’s basketball team will use for practice and regulation games. The downtown venue ends the college’s search for a permanent home for its sports teams.
    The YMCA hopes to more than double membership at the downtown fitness facility, from 1,500 to 3,000, after it opens.

http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r00900&AppName=1

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SCHENECTADY
YWCA to pay bills to avert foreclosure
BY MICHAEL LAMENDOLA Gazette Reporter

    The YWCA of Schenectady will avert pending foreclosure by paying $54,000 in overdue sewer and water charges to a company that buys delinquent tax liens, YWCA Executive Director Rowie Taylor said Tuesday.
    American Tax Funding, a company that buys delinquent tax liens and then tries to collect on them, filed a foreclosure notice against the YWCA Dec. 8 in The Daily Gazette. The foreclosure was set to occur Jan. 12. American Tax Funding purchases tax liens from the city of Schenectady.
    The delinquent taxes cover sewer and water charges going back to 2004 and comprise $32,316 in principal and $24,313 in interest, Taylor said. Nonprofits pay no property taxes but must still pay water and sewer charges.
    Taylor said the YWCA has agreed to pay off the principal by Jan. 7 and to pay off the interest over time. “We will have to use funds I would have had to use for other operations. We will continue to tighten our belts,” she said.
    Catherine Lewis, treasurer of the YWCA board of directors, said the board has been aware of the delinquent payments for years. “The difficulty is we have cash fl ow problems,” she said. “We have been trying to reach ATF for some time to negotiate the payment.”
    Taylor said the YWCA never got a letter that ATF was going to fi le the foreclosure notice. The YWCA learned about the notice after it was published.
    Taylor apologized for not paying the bill, some of which the YWCA disputes. “Money is tight, but we think we have paid some of this,” she said. “There is no excuse for this. We are very sorry we did not pay our bill in a timely manner. We will from now on.”
    An ATF official was not available for comment. .................>>>>..................>>>>................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r00900&AppName=1

It is apparent the Schenectady YMCA needs a taxing district.