The Downtown YMCA Is Back on the Market
After reopening in June, the decline in memberships was enough to re-enter negotiations with potential suitors. The Y says it is committed to staying downtown in some form.
By Matt Goodman
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FrontBurner
January 28, 2021
3:34 pm
The downtown T. Boone Pickens YMCA is back on the market. The well-maintained gym at the corner of Ross and Akard streets is at the edge of plenty of development activity. It’s all marching east along Ross, with the overhaul of the Trammell Crow Center, the new retail-accented parking garage across the street, and Hall Arts’ continued expansion a few blocks north. On the other end of the block is the new Fountain Place Amli, 45 stories of luxury housing. According to JLL, the firm that’s brokering a deal, the post-Klyde Warren Park office boom has brought over 2 million square feet of office development since 2012.