“The Capital District YMCA will reopen its Troy and Schenectady locations on May 1, following prolonged pandemic-induced shutdowns, the nonprofit announced on Monday.
The Capital District YMCA will reopen its Troy and Schenectady locations on May 1, following prolonged pandemic-induced shutdowns, the nonprofit announced on Monday.
The Troy location has been closed since the pandemic’s onset in March 2020, and the downtown Schenectady location since January 2021.
After a series of fits and starts — a rocky two-year road which the nonprofit attributed to emerging and morphing coronavirus variants, shifting mandates and a skittish public — officials only now feel the way is clear for the facilities to reopen without interruption.
“We simply just couldn’t afford to open back up,” CDYMCA President and CEO David Brown said. “We had a very slow return to facilities that we did open and the uncertainty of what was happening next was a challenge for us.”
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DeMola, Pete. Times Union 28 March 2022.