NAZARETH BORO, Pa. – Big changes are coming to the River Crossing YMCA in Nazareth.<\/p>\n
On Friday, plans for a major renovation were unveiled; completely transforming the facility, including the original 1918 building.<\/p>\n
“We are unveiling the plans for our beautiful renovation of our downtown Nazareth branch and we’re going public on our campaign. So, this is about a $9 million project. We’re $7.5 million in, so we have $1.5 million to raise,” Zane Moore, President & CEO of River Crossing YMCA says.<\/p>\n
The renovations will completely reimagine the space; from fitness studios and child care areas, to a new cafe and lobby designed for community connection.<\/p>\n
“We want to make this is not just a fitness center, but much more than that,” Moore says. “And we’ll create those social gathering spaces for people. Try to overcome that social isolation that’s happening across our country.<\/p>\n
Officials say they want to honor the Y’s past, while looking toward its future.<\/p>\n
Stephen Bajan II, Finance Chair of River Crossing YMCA Lehigh Valley Region Advisory Board says, “My grandfathers were here, aunts, uncles, you know, parents all came through the Y. I learned to swim here, play basketball. I don’t have kids yet, but when I do, this is where they’ll be to learn those same skills.”<\/p>\n
And for current members — excitement is already building.<\/p>\n
“I think it’ll give people a place to come. To be honest with you, I have three young children, so I don’t really have friends. I don’t really have community. So this will probably be a good place for people to come,” Nazareth resident, Lisa Stone, says.<\/p>\n
Leaders hope to break ground by the spring of 2026, and say the finished space will give residents a place to gather, grow and connect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NAZARETH BORO, Pa. – Big changes are coming to the River Crossing YMCA in Nazareth. On Friday, plans…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5728,153,155,154,5735,2265,5732,654,5733,28,5730,5729,5734,5727,5731],"class_list":["post-6337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bajan-creole","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-chair","tag-finance","tag-lisa-stone","tag-nazareth","tag-nazareth-boro","tag-pennsylvania","tag-president-ceo","tag-river-crossing-ymca","tag-stephen-bajan-ii","tag-ymca","tag-zane-moore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6337","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=6337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}