AFP Grabs Building

It may still need rebuilding, even if it stays as community zoning.

I spent many nights there in the 70’s as my dad was a boxing instructor. Sad to see it become another set of units.
I’m sure there’s plenty of community groups that would like to use it.

I thought that when it was first closed and the Charnwood PCYC opened, that there was a general acknowledgement that PCYC could serve a wider demographic of teenagers who need the facilities in West Belconnen, than they could in the CBD.

Sounds homo-erotic – I prefer Police Citizens Youth Club (PCYC

I did judo there, back in the days when it was called The Police Boys Club.

I was using the gym at the PCYC in Turner regularly up until they closed about a year ago. I was in there many mornings when building inspectors were going over the place. The manager (at least the guy who was running the place during the day) told me that they’d been patching it up for years and had run out of options.

Now – I never got a refund on my $20 membership for the year (like I’d ever go to Charnwood!) but I figured there are worse places to lose my money to.

I thought he PCYC was structuraly unsafe and that the move to charnwood was a temporary one until the turner location can get restumped or whatever it is.

Was unaware it was earmarked for demolition.

Valuable inner-city real estate applied to a community purpose? That’d be in la-la-land now, wouldn’t it…