Danbury’s only public pool reopens at a downtown community center with new fitness programming

To get the news out and encourage inhabitants to be a part of, the group center declared that the a single-time joiner’s payment of $35 would be waived for members who signal up in July and August.

The membership buys inhabitants obtain to the Danbury War Memorial’s physical fitness center, which features pounds equipment and cardiovascular gear, according to a launch.

The refurbished pool is the star of a group centre that opened briefly at the conclusion of 2019 but was pressured to shut in the course of the coronavirus disaster. The new group center at 12 Boughton St. is the do the job of the nonprofit Connecticut Institute for Communities, whose headquarters are nearby on Principal Avenue.

“CIFC is so pleased to supply a local community pool to Danbury the moment yet again and give aquatics programming…for everybody — from youth to seniors (and from) persons and families,” explained CIFC CEO Katherine Curran in a geared up statement. “Along with the War Memorial, we are pleased to provide the choice of twin memberships to equally facilities.”

The reopening of the pool and gymnasium fills the void left when the YMCA’s Boughton Avenue department shut in 2014. CIFC acquired the building and refurbished it with the enable of $5 million in point out and personal funding.

The system is to “begin with choices for senior swim, swim lessons, and open up swim, and broaden into academic possibilities and workout lessons as properly as basketball, volleyball, and pickleball,” in accordance to a release.