NAZARETH, Pa. – A multimillion-dollar project is now in the works in Northampton County.<\/p>\n
River Crossing YMCA broke ground Thursday on a $9 million renovation for its Nazareth branch.<\/p>\n
The YMCA on South Main Street in the heart of downtown Nazareth is getting major upgrades.<\/p>\n
“This project is a renovation of the portion of our building that was built in 1918, so well over 100 years old,” said Crystal Messer, VP of Operations for River Crossing YMCA.<\/p>\n
Last year, River Crossing YMCA launched a $9 million fundraising campaign for its largest project ever and is $8 million of the way there.<\/p>\n
“So now we’re able to give that portion of the community what they need, give the building what it needs to build memories, community and a really safe place for families for hopefully another 100 years,” Messer explained.<\/p>\n
The project includes adding preschool and childcare services, a mind and body studio, a community space, new track and basketball courts, a cafe and a brand-new lobby.<\/p>\n
“We’re going to give it that refresh that it needs and the refresh the community needs as well,” Messer stated.<\/p>\n
At Thursday’s groundbreaking, community members and those involved in the project wrote down reflections, notes and memories of the Nazareth branch.<\/p>\n
“We’re putting a legacy capsule together today which is like a time capsule,” said Debbie Sontupe, Chief Development Officer for River Crossing YMCA.<\/p>\n
The project is expected to take 12-18 months, with completion set for the end of 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NAZARETH, Pa. – A multimillion-dollar project is now in the works in Northampton County. River Crossing YMCA broke…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,25781,524,6728,17043,654,9385,9327,5729,72199,5727],"class_list":["post-199313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-childcare","tag-community","tag-fundraising","tag-groundbreaking","tag-nazareth","tag-preschool","tag-renovation","tag-river-crossing-ymca","tag-time-capsule","tag-ymca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}