“I see the community coming there again and turning this whole corner to a beautiful space.”Īdamyk and his wife, Michelle, left Claremont in 2017 for Pomona, where the Christian couple felt they could be of service. The red-brick YMCA with its distinctive arched windows is a local landmark, one that’s sat dormant for more than a decade. “We want to really reach the 13- to 25-year-old group. Adamyk hopes to appeal to a wide swath of Pomona, but very much including young people. It’s a heady mix of uses and a little hard to wrap your head around. A large patio fronting Garey Avenue will be open to the public. Outdoors, there’s space for large events that could bring food trucks and live music. One of them Adamyk hopes to turn into a concert venue, although he’ll need a conditional use permit from the city to pull that off. The two former gyms will become event spaces for weddings, quinceaneras and other celebrations. “I want this to be a place that impacts the community in a big way.” “We want to have the right tenant mix,” Adamyk said. Some tenants have been chosen from nearly 200 expressions of interest, but Spectra is still seeking applicants at. He showed me the upper floors, where some 35 small rooms will be leased to nonprofits and creative types as offices the basement, where Spectra will move its headquarters and the main floor, to be occupied by a coffee bar and cafe and by a few boutique retailers. I’d been inside twice before: in 2005, for a column that became the entry under Y in my “Pomona A to Z” series, and in 2017 for a community pre-construction tour. My interest in this YMCA building is, of course, a matter of public record. I got an advance look - a sneak peek to the sneak peek. You can get a look at the progress yourself from 3 to 5 p.m. “Now it’s $17 million by the time we’re done.” “When we bought it, we were thinking $10 million,” Adamyk said. I asked Adamyk how much money he was putting in. The early stages were limited to cleaning out the interior and removing dropped ceilings and utilitarian flooring to reveal original elements, like hexagonal tile and a cast-iron newel post stamped with the YMCA logo. That was in 2017, five years after the YMCA moved out due to lack of money to maintain or upgrade their home. He bought the YMCA, a National Register landmark, for $2.65 million. “I don’t know how many people we have here today, but two weeks ago we had 94 people here,” owner Ray Adamyk told me.Īdamyk’s business, Pomona-based Spectra Co., restores and renovates historic buildings. Dozens of people were in action throughout the 60,000-square-foot building, which has three floors, a mezzanine and a basement, and outside, where the dirt was being graded. On Wednesday the site was a hive of activity. The long-awaited renovation of the 1922 structure at 350 S. Now, it’s a construction crew that’s getting a workout. Among its distinctive design features is its glitzy entrance that showcases a flamboyant display of wines sourced from leading wine-producing countries, an under-lit glass runway with dramatic lighting, an attention-grabbing, elongated cluster of lighting fixtures and numerous crystal chandeliers that surpass the brilliance of Swarovski crystals.Inside the old Pomona YMCA, generations of children learned to swim and people of all ages played basketball and handball or ran on the elevated track. Liberal and coordinated use of glass, wood and marble make Spectra an interesting study in design. ft with a seating capacity of 225 covers, the restaurant features an interesting setting of seven culinary islands with live kitchens, private and semi-private seating enclaves and two large private dining rooms. Spectra, a new age restaurant, serves global cuisine cooked ‘a la minute’ through its interactive kitchens by a brigade of chefs. Spectra, an award-winning restaurant offers guests a veritable treat of international cuisines and extends its welcome into the wee hours of the night where guests can savour after hour specials, and beverages or enjoy a simple shot of espresso to keep them going through the night.
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