The Mulcahy YMCA at the Kino Community Center.
If you use the Mulcahy YMCA at the Kino Community Center on east Ajo Way for YMCA-sponsored activities, get ready for a change.
The YMCA has leased the 32,000-square-foot community center on the south side for seven years. That arrangement ends on July 1, when the county takes back control of the community center, and the YMCA moves some of its programs to other facilities. The YMCA will continue to teach swim classes at the center.
Reenie Ochoa, Director of the Kino Sports Complex, says the YMCA and the county are still working out the details.
"We are working through some schedules as to when part of the facilities will be open and available, but it won't be the regular 7 a.m. in the morning till 9 at night you can just come and drop in and use the facilities. It'll be on a more limited basis," Ochoa said.
The county leased the community center to the YMCA in 2011 as it repurposed the Kino Sports Complex when major league baseball moved spring training out of Tucson. Now, the county sees the community center as one of the amenities it can use to attract groups and events to the sports complex.
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