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Name Location relative to Downtown Houston Approximate boundaries 1 Willowbrook: Northwest Along Texas State Highway 249 northwest of Beltway 8 2 Greater Greenspoint: North Around the junction of Beltway 8 and Interstate 45 North 3 Carverdale Northwest South of the junction of Beltway 8 and U.S. Route 290: 4 Fairbanks / Northwest Crossing Northwest
The Houston Texans YMCA was built on 5-acre (2.0 ha) of land, [20] on the site of a previous building that had been abandoned; this building had the original Palms Center sign. [18] The YMCA announced plans to open the new Texans YMCA, which replaced the South Central YMCA, on March 25, 2008. Groundbreaking occurred in December 2008. [3]
[74] Current policy denies admission to the pool or other facilities to non-residents unless physically accompanied by a resident at all times . The Weekley YMCA in Houston, the current YMCA facility, includes West University Place in its service area. [75] It opened in 1951 as the Southwest YMCA. [76]
The city has various YMCAs under the YMCA of Greater Houston. [58] Additionally there is a YWCA, the Gateway Branch. [59] The YWCA opened the Masterson YWCA in 1981. It had 50,000 square feet (4,600 m 2) of space. [60] Located near the Houston Heights, it was named after a donor, Carroll Masterson, and designed by Taft & Associates.
The YMCA was originally named after Ken Lay; in the wake of the corruption scandal that led to the downfall of Enron Corporation, a major Houston-based energy company which Lay headed, he asked for his name to be removed from the YMCA in June 2006, shortly before his death. [10]
The renamed Anthony Bowen YMCA is still serving the U Street area of Washington. It became a part of YMCA of the city of Washington in 1947. YMCA developed the first known English as a Second Language program in the United States in response to the influx of immigrants in the 1850s. [6]
YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries.It has nearly 90,000 staff, some 920,000 volunteers and 12,000 branches worldwide. [1]
The pool is also home to a 150+ member swim team that competes with other pools in the Houston area. Swim team season runs from mid-May through the end of June. The Parks Director is Andrew Devers. The Weekley Family YMCA is in the area. It opened in 1951 as the Southwest YMCA, [49] in West University Place.