Welcome to the East Side Youth Sports Foundation
As a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, East Side Youth Sports Foundation is dedicated to the growth of youth sports on the east side of metro Detroit. Through Grants and Scholarships, and Sports Programs, ESYSF is making sports available to all children and providing players important life lessons that will assist them during competition and beyond including good sportsmanship, citizenship, teamwork, physical welfare and more. ESYSF is also using sports to bridge the gap between Detroit and surrounding communities, removing social, economic and racial barriers.
ESYSF owns and operates The ESH Ice Arena. Since the acquisition in 2014, the arena has seen hundreds of thousands of dollars of updates including a renovated lobby, bathrooms, cooling tower and much more. The vision is to not only create an updated facility, but revitalize the area and become a partner with the local community.
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
The East Side Youth Sports Foundation & ESH Ice Arena is pleased to announce that the new refrigeration funding has been secured!
The East Side Youth Sports Foundation has been able to pay down our original loan on the ESH Arena by over $200,000. This has allowed us to refinance with the bank and include the new refrigeration system, at a lower interest rate.
By agreeing to the terms of this loan we will be able to the upgrade of the rink from our existing anti-freeze system, and install a new ammonia based system bring us up to the new 2020 code rules, by the summer of 2020.
Our future hope, however, is through donations and kindness we will be able to recoup the loan payments within the 5 years.
Our campaign to collect funding for this project will continue, and we are grateful to all of our sponsors who have continued to support the East Side Youth Sports Foundation.
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East Side Youth Sports Foundation
26333 Jefferson Avenue, Suite 102
St. Clair Shores, MI 48081
info@esysf.com
East Side Hockey (ESH) Ice Arena
(Formerly Grosse Pointe Community Rink)
4831 Canyon Street
Detroit, MI 48236
313-885-4100
dave@esysf.com