First look at the Sumner YMCA design

The city of Sumner on Thursday published the first renderings of the planned recreational facility, which were released by YMCA of Pierce and Kitsap Counties last week.

So that’s what the Sumner YMCA would look like.

The city of Sumner on Thursday published the first renderings of the planned recreational facility, which were released by YMCA of Pierce and Kitsap Counties last week.

The drawings, which show the exterior of the facility from four sides, confirm that the proposed building shares elements of design with existing YMCA facilities, such as the one in Gig Harbor. However, at 100,000 square feet, the Sumner YMCA would be nearly 30 percent larger.

In April, the Sumner city council approved an agreement with YMCA to develop on 10.25 acres near the intersection of 64th Street East and 160th Avenue East. Under the agreement, the city agreed to contribute $5 million to the project in exchange for facility vouchers for Sumner citizens.

The new agreement doubled the city’s $2.5 million financial commitment to an earlier site plan that would have placed the Y in the troubled Orton Junction development project. The proposed development was blocked in 2012 after the state Growth Management Hearings Board determined city comprehensive plan amendments approved by the county council had violated state law concerning Agricultural Resource Lands. The project is currently in limbo as the city and Orton Farms LLC await the results of an appeal to Thurston County Superior Court.

The new proposed YMCA is slated to break ground in spring 2014 for a summer 2015 opening.