The Speaker of the New York State Assembly, Carl Heastie, came to the North Country with the promise of delivering 1.3-million-dollars in state funding to help the YMCA build a new state of the art rec & community center in the former CVPH Wellness Center on the former Plattsburgh Air Force Base.
The YMCA plans to begin work in the fall and hopes to reopen the Wellness Center gym and pool by next fall, and then sell off its downtown Plattsburgh location to help finance a 2nd phase of renovations at the Wellness Center for City Gym on the U.S. Oval. In all, it’s a $13-million-dollar project.