Dallas, TX – The Moody Foundation provided a generous gift of $8 million to renovate the 62-year-old Park Cities YMCA branch of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas. Renovations to the Park Cities YMCA will result in higher quality programs and services offered to the local community. The newly named Moody Family YMCA building should open by the end of 2015. The new facility will have a larger preschool, therapy pool, gymnasium and underground parking garage. The new Moody Family YMCA facility is expected to provide many programs to help develop youth, inspire and improve fitness and wellness for all ages, as well as address ongoing local community social needs as the old Park City YMCA has done for past 62 years.
“For more than a hundred years, the YMCA has worked to strengthen communities by producing healthy children and adults with strong values. Y members make good neighbors, and as both executive director of the Moody Foundation and a resident of this community, I’m particularly pleased that the foundation is able to help the Park Cities YMCA be a good neighbor, too. While the new building will be a beautiful addition to the neighborhood, the true legacy of the new Moody Family YMCA will be in the thousands of lives it transforms through the creative expression of children’s activities, the discipline of team sports, and life-enhancing exercise and wellness programs for all ages,” states Frances Moody-Dalhberg, the Trustee and Executive Director of the Moody Foundation. The Moody Family has been a supporter of healthy sports activities for many decades. Most recently, the Moody Foundation Trustees have recognized the health, social, and academic benefits of physical activity and funded many projects for recreational infrastructure, including park developments in Austin, Dallas and Galveston, as well as a variety of programs, making this project a natural fit.