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Thank you for your membership with the Downtown YMCA. We appreciate you being part of our association and hope the Y helps you grow in spirit, mind and body - and to lead to a healthier lifestyle.
I’m writing to share with you some exciting and significant changes with the Downtown Y facility. The Board of Directors for the Gateway Region YMCA has voted to relocate the current Downtown Y at 1528 Locust to a new location in the downtown central business district. Currently, the Y has signed a letter of intent for a new state-of-the-art facility at 6th and Locust Streets in the MX Building development.
The new location will feature many amenities, including a fitness center, group exercise rooms, the latest equipment, private showers, changing rooms and steam rooms, an outdoor patio for outdoor classes and social functions, and an open lobby with free Wi-Fi, coffee, gathering and working areas. The target date for opening the new branch is January 2017. Operations will continue at the current facility until the new facility is ready.
This decision comes after a year of careful and extensive research and deliberation by a special committee made up of Downtown Y board volunteers, Metro board volunteers, and staff, as well as by an independent research firm, to study options for the future of the Downtown branch. For a number of reasons, the current facility faces significant annual financial losses. This, along with a sizable investment needed for deferred maintenance, prompted our search for a new location. This move will put us in a position to reduce the negative impact on our long-term fiscal health and provide continued service to the downtown community and those from around the bi-state area who use the facility.
There is nothing you need to do at this time. We will notify you when we have finalized an opening date for the new Downtown Y. In the meantime, the current facility will remain open. As a reminder, membership at the Y is “Join One, Join All”, so you are allowed full access to any of our 24 branches in the bi-state area, including our four other branches in the City of St. Louis – the South City Family Y, the Monsanto Family Y, the Carondelet Park Rec Complex and the O’Fallon Park Rec Complex.
We greatly value your membership, and we want to continue to be your destination for fitness and personal growth. We are excited to provide you with a new facility that will give our members better fitness features and amenities, and allow us to continue to serve the downtown community.
If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to call the Downtown Y at 314-436-4100. Thank you for allowing us to serve you and your family, and for your membership with the Y.
Sincerely,
Tim Helm
President and CEO, Gateway Region YMCA

private showers

It's getting that time. The Downtown St. Louis YMCA at 1528 Locust will tentatively be closing on May 20, 2017. We will be hosting a celebratory event on Friday May 19, 2017. If you are renting a locker, please remember you will need to remove your belongings by May 19. After we close the 1528 Locust location there will be no place to store any items left behind and we will be donating them. Thank you to everyone that has learned to swim in our pool, taken water fitness, or swam laps. Please don't miss the chance to take a swim!

Plenty of parking is available at the new MX location in the Downtown East Garage located on 6th Street directly across the street from the branch. The entrance to the garage is on 6th Street as well. Parking fees are the regular market rate from 8 am – 5 pm, Monday - Friday. Parking passes are available for $1 for two hours on the weekend, and for those who depart prior to 8 am or arrive after 5 pm. Passes are available for purchase at the branch.