City partners with YMCA for pilot, summer programs

New location at SouthGlenn

BY TAYLER SHAW TSHAW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

anks to a partnership between the City of Centennial and the YMCA of Metro Denver, a new center will be coming to the Streets at SouthGlenn shopping complex.

e partnership will o er youth and older adults a variety of programs such as cooking classes and esports.

right now, there is a “long list of requests,” said Allison Wittern, the city’s communications director.

“As of last Friday … we’ve completed ice cutting at 88 locations across the city,” Wittern said in a Feb. 15 interview. “We still have, I mean, approximately like 50 locations in front of us that we need to get to — that meet the criteria and that we need to get to.”

Since Nov. 1, 2022, the city has gotten more than 200 calls requesting ice cutting, Wittern said, noting e new center, called the “Centennial YMCA Center of Generations,” will be located directly adjacent to the Southglenn Library. e space does not require much renovation, and it is currently planned to have a “soft opening” in March. A full opening is planned this summer, said Kimberly Armitage, YMCA senior vice president of strategic growth and mission.

“It’s about a 6,345-square-foot space that will be separated but yet intergenerational to be able to, overall, work the teens and the seniors together,” Armitage said during a presentation to the council on Feb. 7.

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