The Statesboro Family YMCA received a $500,000 commitment from its parent YMCA in Savannah to get Phase 1 of the Statesboro facility - the repurposed gym of the old Sallie Zetterower Elementary School - ready for a first-quarter 2017 opening. To build Phase 2, a new building adjoining the gym, the Statesboro Y will seek to raise $1 million in its founders' campaign. But the $500,000 startup investment from the YMCA of Coastal Georgia means the Statesboro Y will be able to refurbish the gym and begin offering programs there, said Bob Mikell, who chairs the Statesboro YMCA Steering Committee.