The Bob Adams Family Community YMCA — including the Christy Birkhold Wellness Center and George Jenkins Fieldhouse — will open on Saturday, Nov. 1, at 3620 Cleveland Heights Blvd. in Lakeland. The site was formerly known as the Lakeland Family YMCA.
Years in the making
This project has been in development for years. In 2022, the original building — now called the Historic Y — was running at maximum capacity for youth sports like basketball and indoor soccer, said T.J. Wight, CEO of YMCA of West Central Florida.
With so many kids and members on campus, spaces were crowded. Staff members at the Y started dreaming about what expansion might look like: “Obviously more space, more basketball, more indoor soccer or turf and then a larger weight room,” he said.
Now, that vision is becoming a reality…