Old YMCA building on east side expected to be torn down

• Officials have said the nearly 80,000-square-foot, five-story building would be prohibitively expensive to renovate.

The latest: City officials requested last week that City Council approve tearing down the building for nearly $2 million.

Flashback: Small nonprofit the Women's Justice Center was supposed to renovate the building nearly two decades ago after getting it for free from the federal government.

• But the center failed to do any substantial clean up and the old Y languished for years. The city sued the nonprofit in 2020, as Annalise previously reported for Crain's.