Title
Resolution Adopting the City of Greensboro Spencer Love Tennis Center Master Plan
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Department: Parks and Recreation
Council District: 3
Council Priority: Maintain Infrastructure and Provide Sustainable Growth Opportunities
Public Hearing: N/A
Advertising Date/By: N/A
Contact 1 and Phone: Nasha McCray, 433-7360
Contact 2 and Phone: Shawna Tillery, 373-7808
PURPOSE:
City Council approval is requested to approve the Spencer Love Tennis Center Master Plan, which was completed in September 2019.
BACKGROUND:
Spencer Love Tennis Center is located at 3802 Jaycee Park Drive, within Jaycee Community Park and the Battleground Parks District (BPD). BPD encompasses 400 acres that lay in the heart of Greensboro and also includes Country Park, the Greensboro Science Center, Forest Lawn Cemetery, Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, and Lewis Recreation Center.
In 2016, voters approved a series of Parks and Recreation bond projects which included $3 million in funding for community tennis renovations and the expansion of the Spencer Love Tennis Center. Over the past few years, a group of volunteers representing the Greensboro Tennis Program and Foundation, in conjunction with the City of Greensboro, have been working together to develop a vision for the expansion of the Spencer Love Tennis Center that would include more tennis courts and a modernized training and meeting facility building.
In 2017, the Greensboro Parks and Recreation Commission approved a site plan option for the expansion of tennis courts at Spencer Love to the west of the existing building. In October 2018, the City selected Westcott, Small & Associates (WSAA), a local women-owned engineering and planning firm, to revise the site plan to reflect more viable economic and environmentally-friendly options that would complement the BPD Master Plan and be in alignment with the Plan2Play, the Department's 20-year comprehensive plan. After performing a significant site analysis, WSAA d...
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