Article: Upper Bucks YMCA breaks ground: First phase of new Quakertown center could be open in 2008.

Byline: Brian Callaway

Apr. 3--August 2001: Upper Bucks YMCA chooses to build a new headquarters on Richland Township open space; turns down an offer of land from Quakertown.

January 2003: Neighbors file suit in Bucks County Court to invalidate the township's deal with the YMCA. May 2005: Commonwealth Court rules the YMCA cannot build on the Richland land. June 2006: YMCA announces its plans to buy the old Campania Imports factory on Fairview Avenue in Quakertown for $3.3 million. April 2007: Official groundbreaking at the factory, which should open as a new YMCA in summer 2008. Doug Hutchinson trotted through the old factory in Quakertown, ...

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