YMCA of the Palm Beaches

Delivered through a public-private partnership between the YMCA of the Palm Beaches and Palm Beach County Parks and Recreation, enabled by a 50-year county ground lease, the facility roughly triples the size of the organization's existing branch and is expected to serve some 18,000 residents a year. Designed by PBK Architects and built by Hedrick Brothers Construction, the center goes well beyond a traditional gym, with advanced fitness and wellness floors, a teen Youth Engagement and Resource Center, a STEM lab with a robotics arena, a music and recording studio, a creative arts studio, a teaching kitchen, a Y PreSchool Academy, child watch, after-school care and community meeting space for partner agencies. It anchors a roughly $79 million, 13-acre campus that also includes an Olympic-style skate park by Team Pain and Palm Beach County's new Lake Lytal Aquatic Center, with a Myrtha-lined competition pool, a 13-foot dive well with springboards and an aquatic play zone with slides. A second phase will add a gymnatorium, an indoor track and a 200-seat child care center.