Broadview Heights City Council has approved construction of new tennis, pickleball and basketball courts on the City Hall campus.(Bob Sandrick, special to cleveland.com)
BROADVIEW HEIGHTS, Ohio -- The city plans to build two tennis courts, six pickleball courts and one basketball court at the City Hall/Leo H. Bender Community Center campus on Broadview Road. polyurethane clear coat for wood
The new courts will be located on green space between the community center and the Broadview Heights police station.
The tennis and basketball courts will replace those at The Fields, a city sports fields complex on Broadview north of Ohio 82.
“Our current courts are in poor condition and unrepairable at this point,” Amanda Hutcheson, the city’s director of parks and recreation, told cleveland.com in an email.
“We have (re)surfaced them in the past, but the amount of cracks, and how large and deep they are getting, is beyond repair.”
Hutcheson said the basketball court at The Fields is too close to a space where families with young children gather.
Also, the court is next to a baseball field, so fly balls often sail over the court.
“This (new basketball court) will allow us to give the users a space that is dedicated to them and not be sandwiched between a playground and baseball fields,” Hutcheson said.
“It’s also nice to pull all of these courts together into a complex and outdoor sports destination, one that will serve so many of our residents and others,” Hutcheson said.
The city also has three basketball courts inside the community center.
Hutcheson said the city’s tennis courts now double as pickleball courts. Also, gymnasium floors inside the community center are lined for pickleball.
The city is building the pickleball courts due to increased interest in the sport and to give pickleball players their own dedicated space, Hutcheson said.
The city has hired Hejduk-Cox & Associates Inc., a Solon engineering firm, to design the tennis courts for $16,989 and the basketball and pickleball courts for $33,982.
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Hejduk-Cox will help calculate construction estimates for the project.
Hutcheson said the city hopes to seek bids for the projects next spring and finish construction by fall 2025.
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