Community Invited To Open House For New Benjamin Barnes YMCA

TUSCALOOSA, AL — The City of Tuscaloosa on Monday announced it will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house for the new Benjamin Barnes YMCA on Thursday, Dec. 19.

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The ribbon-cutting will begin at 4 p.m., with the open house following the ceremony until 7 p.m.

The new Benjamin Barnes YMCA is located at 3011 Martin Luther King Boulevard, on the campus of the McDonald Hughes Center.

Refreshments will be provided at the open house.

Funded partly through the city's Elevate Tuscaloosa initiative, the city says the new Benjamin Barnes YMCA facility will bring enhanced resources to families in the community including fitness, athletics, year-round childcare, and educational programming.

As Patch previously reported, $10 million was set aside to construct the new YMCA branch in the city's West End, with $500,000 coming from Elevate Tuscaloosa and the remaining $9.5 million from the city's fiscal year 2022 bond issuance.

Construction on the project began in October 2023.

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