After two weeks on the market, Vashon Youth & Family Services’ Playspace building is pending sale to an island couple that hopes to turn it into a teen-focused community center.

Islanders Michele and Jim McBride signed a contract to purchase the building last week, but are in the process of finalizing a business plan and determining whether their vision is feasible. On a Facebook page created over the weekend, called The Vashon Spot (which is a working name and will likely change), Michele McBride provides floor plans for the building that include a game library, arcade and spaces for art, club meetings and music. Outside, she said she plans to turn the playground into a parkour park; though she is careful to note that the point of the center will be its focus on teens and teen-led programming.

“The teens lead this. I will facilitate,” she explained. “I want to foster inclusion and a culture of teens who are seen, heard and can take on programming. They can offer up their own skills or bring in people from outside.”

Access to the center will be membership-based, though fees were still being finalized Monday. She said the center will also not be a nonprofit venture, mostly due to the quick timeline and necessity to prove to lenders that the business will be profitable.

“To get the building, we will have to be for-profit,” she said. “I am open to the possibility of later down the road becoming nonprofit, but it’s definitely not in my plans.”

She said she will send out a survey and meet with teens in the coming weeks. She has one month to finalize the deal.

For Michele, the possibility of having the building is the first step to recognizing a dream she has had since she was a teenager.

“I grew up in Seattle, I went to a big high school, played sports, but had the same laments that teens on Vashon do: that there was nothing to do,” she said.

At the age of 17, she noticed that even in big cities, there were not safe places for teens to go to have fun.

“As a teen I had a burning desire to have a grown-up nightclub for the under-21 crowd. I had this idea of having a bar and having all non-alcoholic drinks and a cool place to go hang out,” she said. “As I got older, the idea kept coming back.”

She said she put the idea out of her head when she realized there likely wouldn’t be a space on Vashon. But then the Playspace building went up for sale.

“I knew it needed to have a big space,” she said of her idea for a center. “I drove by (last) Wednesday and saw the sign and couldn’t believe it. I couldn’t believe what it was listed at.”

The McBride’s signed a contract for the $539,000 building that has been home to Vashon Youth & Family Services’ birth to age 6 programs since 2011, and are in the process of gathering budget projections and gauging interest in order to get a business loan.

“The commercial lender requires a feasibility study to give them confidence in loaning us the money. If the community response is limited then, more than likely, the deal will not go through,” she said.

Community support seems to be high as the Facebook group created last weekend already has more than 140 members.

Michele said a website should be up this week with FAQs and membership rates. The initial effort will be slow, with a limited number of memberships offered and the center open only three days per week.

If the McBrides buy the building, Michele said she hopes to open in June. Until then, she is asking for community support with startup costs, including donations of furniture, arcade games, board games, tables and chairs.

For more information and to contact Michele about donations, search The Vashon Spot on Facebook.