The YMCA of Greater Houston announced in late April fitness facility services would be discontinued in May at the Creekside Park YMCA, leaving residents with no neighborhood fitness facility. The location will close completely when day camp programs end this summer.
Residents Linda Drachenberg, Cindy Morrow and Nancy Becker, Creekside Park Village Association President, asked The Woodlands Township board of directors May 25 to consider allowing the parks and recreation department to take over the Creekside Park YMCA.
“Initially, our efforts were to try to convince the YMCA to keep this location open and to grow the facility,” Becker said. “However, we quickly learned that the decision to close was in the works for some time, and we were not going to get them to change their minds.”
Entities interested in purchasing the property could include the township’s parks and recreation department and Harris County Precinct 4, Becker said. However, concerns associated with Harris County purchasing the land include eventual ownership of the facility for use unrelated to family fitness, she said.
