June 16,2007: Gateway YWCA Opens

 

Gateway YWCA

On this day in 2007, the new YWCA opened on South Main Street in the Southeast Gateway area.

The new facility was built on a 48-acre tract near the corner of Salem Avenue and South Main Street.  The cost for the new YWCA was $15 million, and it is 90,000 square feet.

At its opening in 2007, the new YWCA had 200 charter members.  Monthly membership fees were $44 a month.

The YWCA was planned as the anchor for a neighborhood revitalization that would include shops, apartments, restaurants and businesses.  It was estimated that the Gateway YWCA would have 2,500 members by the end of its first year.

The new YWCA replaced the Glade Street YWCA that opened in 1942.

Photo by Molly Grogan Rawls.

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