“Some call it the Ritz. Others seem in awe of the largest and most expensive YMCA ever built north of Boston.”
“This feels like a private club,” said Katherine Bell, who sat in the WiFi cafe of the new Marblehead-Swampscott YMCA typing on her laptop while occasionally glancing through a nearby window at the two indoor pools.
“We think it was the largest capital campaign for a single YMCA in New England,” said Paul Gorman, executive director of the Marblehead-Swampscott YMCA.