Even in a less skeptical age, the case against selling the Morrison Family YMCA would be pretty darn compelling.
A busy, well-loved branch in a booming area of town. Land provided by Mecklenburg County for recreation poised to produce a major windfall. Families who thought the YMCA was a permanent part of their community learning otherwise with little warning.
My first reaction was not far from that. I saw the pending sale as a misguided application of “equity,” cashing out a valuable property in affluent Ballantyne and using the proceeds elsewhere. If a neighborhood had to lose its Y, the Ballantyne crowd was perhaps the least sympathetic constituency in the county…