JCC: "Future plans are not yet final, but it is likely that we will put the club up for sale."
Framingham Patch was the first new outlet to report that the JCC Clearbrook Swim Club's pool will not open this summer, at the end of February. The 50-year old facility is in need of $100,000 worth of repairs. Framingham Patch inquired if the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston, which purchased the property in 2001 for $150,000, planned to fund raise to open the facility in 2014 or sell the property. This is the response Patch received: "Future plans are not yet final, but it is likely that we will put the club up for sale. In that case, proceeds from the sale will be designated by the JCC, in consultation with the Metrowest Jewish Community Committee, specifically for programming in Metrowest. We are open to talking with members …
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Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston announced today it will not open the 50-year old facility in Framingham this summer.
The JCC Clearbrook Swim Club's pool is in need of $100,000 worth of repairs and thus the 50-year old facility will not open this summer. "Compliance with new ADA requirements for swimming pools that went into effect as of Jan. 31, 2013 would cost nearly $100,000, and the pool needs a new pump, in addition to some other items. It is not financially feasible to continue to run the swim club. Reluctantly, we have decided that we cannot open the club this summer," said Mark Sokoll President and CEO of Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston, in a letter to families. The JCCs of Greater Boston bought Clearbrook in 2001 from bondholders. In the first years after we bought it, we made a number of capital improvements, said Sokoll in a letter …
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Evelyn Woldman
10:12 pm on Wednesday, May 8, 2013
So sad to hear about this.. I brought my kids up running around and making the club "their own".. I was just about ready to start the same thing with my grandchildren.. what a loss to the community. maybe some "white knight" will appear to save it! And throughout, much kudos to our Tim Cornely, who "captained" the ship all these years, and kept it in tip top shape till the end!! Evye Woldman more ›