Members will be able to leave their children ages 1-5 at childcare for up to two hours at no cost while they work out or take classes. In all, four classrooms are being created, two for homework assistance and two for childcare. The snack bar area will be transformed into a full-service restaurant and the locker rooms are being turned into classrooms. Sayed also is looking to eventually add futsal, an indoor form of soccer that’s popular at the Dearborn Heights facility. The remaining area will be turned into a performance and cross-fit training center for athletes. Because of the location of cement stairs for the bleachers, there will be only be three courts that can be used for basketball and volleyball. In the ice arena, all but 2,200 square feet will be covered with wood flooring. Sayed has big plans for the center and is spending $400,000 to make improvements. “We’ve gotten a positive response from the community.” “I’m glad people have been receptive and positive,” Sayed said. He sees people coming from Wayne, Westland, Garden City, Romulus and Canton to use the facility.

Interest in the center is growing and 165 members were signed up in a week’s time, according to Sayed who is looking for a membership of more than 5,000. 17, and foot traffic has been steady as people come in to learn about the changes. We want to reach a certain number of memberships then we’ll open it.” “We’ve filled the pool and put chlorine in but it’s not heated. 1, that’s our goal,” said Ali Sayed, president of HYPE Athletics. “We hope to have the major renovations done by Oct. Taken over by HYPE Athletics last month, workers have been busy transforming the former 20,000-square-foot ice arena into basketball courts, creating classrooms for childcare and homework assistance out of the arena’s old locker rooms and redoing the men’s locker rooms. The fitness room seemed to be a distant spot from the renovation work going on in other parts of the building. for 25 cents and get a hot dog for 25 cents. When the pool was outdoors, kids could swim from 1 to 5 p.m. “The center had three racquetball courts and a women’s locker room with a women’s-only workout room. “When the center opened in 1974, half of the men’s locker room was the workout room,” said Hays. One of two charter members of the facility, he was working out on a bench press Thursday morning, recalling the changes at the center over the years. In fact, he remembers a lot about the former Wayne Community Center. He very well remembers when it opened in 1996.

Ron Hays can’t wait until the pool reopens at Hype Athletics in Wayne.

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