CANCO celebrates completion of YMCA aquatics center
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The Carl A. Nelson & Company team worked with the YMCA of Washington County over 20-year span through planning, fundraising and design-build construction of community and aquatics center facility.
WASHINGTON, Iowa -- Hundreds of local residents joined leaders and supporters of the YMCA of Washington County inside the just-completed new aquatics center to celebrate the opening of the Carl A. Nelson & Company design-build project.
The ribbon-cutting and open house Dec. 10 marked the conclusion of an event 20 years in the making, when YMCA officials first reached out to CANCO to begin discussions about planning for a new facility to replace century-old quarters on the square downtown.
Following a lengthy planning, fundraising and design effort, construction of Phase 1, the new fitness and community center, began in 2018. After opening in 2020 to much enthusiasm, attention quickly turned to planning and raising money to build Phase II, the 15,000 SF, $8 million aquatics center. Ground was broken in July 2023, with only installation of bleachers and some landscaping in the spring yet to be completed at the time of the ribbon-cutting.
The center features a six-lane competition pool with a depth of 10 feet and lane length of 75-feet, 3/4 inches; a family recreation pool; an 11-person spa; and three saunas.
Facilities inside the new YMCA of Washington County Aquatic Center include a six-lane competition pool, family recreation pool and personal and small-group saunas. CANCO
Carl A. Nelson & Company provided design-build services to the YMCA of Washington County on its 20-years-in-the-making new fitness/community center and aquatics center. Members of the CANCO team (shown with YMCA of Washington County CEO Amy Schulte) attended the Dec. 10, 2024, ribbon-cutting event to celebrate completion of the aquatic center. CANO Project Manager Tad Morrow expressed the company's gratitude for the opportunity and giving thanks to the contractors and suppliers present who took part in the work. Whisler Studios photos, used with permission