Danbury’s only public pool reopens at a downtown community center with new fitness programming
2 min readDANBURY — Just in time for summer time trip and the summer season heat, the city’s only general public swimming pool reopened Friday along with a modernized gymnasium at the previous YMCA off Principal Avenue.
“Having a community pool in our metropolis is so significant for our citizens,” said Danbury Mayor Dean Esposito at a ceremony to open the renovated neighborhood center this week.
To get the information out and really encourage citizens to join, the community middle announced that the 1-time joiner’s charge of $35 would be waived for customers who sign up in July and August.
The membership purchases people accessibility to the Danbury War Memorial’s health and fitness heart, which consists of excess weight devices and cardiovascular tools, according to a launch.
The refurbished pool is the star of a group centre that opened briefly at the finish of 2019 but was forced to shut through the coronavirus disaster. The new local community middle at 12 Boughton St. is the operate of the nonprofit Connecticut Institute for Communities, whose headquarters are nearby on Major Street.
“CIFC is so pleased to offer a community pool to Danbury when yet again and provide aquatics programming…for everybody — from youth to seniors (and from) people and family members,” said CIFC CEO Katherine Curran in a ready statement. “Along with the War Memorial, we are delighted to offer the selection of dual memberships to both amenities.”
The reopening of the pool and gymnasium fills the void left when the YMCA’s Boughton Road department closed in 2014. CIFC purchased the creating and refurbished it with the enable of $5 million in point out and private funding.
The system is to “begin with offerings for senior swim, swim classes, and open swim, and extend into academic chances and exercising classes as well as basketball, volleyball, and pickleball,” in accordance to a launch.
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