[crisp]

Damn, those courts are our go-to for my brother and I whenever I come up to Edmonton. That is really is upsetting and seems so unnecessary.

 

[IanO]

If you need an alternative, the Kinsmen courts along the river are nice or closer by McQueen.

 

[crisp]

I think McQueen is usually locked up for residents of the community only. Ross Shep / Kinsman / McNally are usually the tour I do looking for open courts sometimes.

 

[northlands]

Can try Borden Park courts as well

 

[TAS]

There are also 4 (maybe 8) courts at Victoria (high school) tennis courts. Just west of the school and South of Royal Alex hospital.

 

[Asherlev]

I would send an email to the CoE project team. Looks like they’re using the courts for their project trailers. Hopefully they don’t tear up the court floors too much.

My friend who works on this project in Clark Builders has confirmed that these courts will be replaced with new ones as part of the project.

 

[Asherlev]

Tbh, I'm a little bit upset they have occupied 8 tennis courts I enjoyed very much. Anyone knows if they are going to re-open after construction is completed? At this point they're storing materials on them. I looked on Google earth and didn't find another place in the city with 8 public courts..

Those Tennis courts will be replaced with new ones where the existing Coronation Arena stands (this building will also be demolished)

 

[Kaizen]

That's great news @Asherlev, and welcome to the forum!

 

[Asherlev]

That's great news @Asherlev, and welcome to the forum!

Thank you! I work in the general contracting industry and I was involved in this project during its tendering phase (hence I have access to all the drawings).

 

[Fuzzy]

That's actually devastating news. I used these tennis courts four times a week these past two summers of COVID times. There are no real alternatives for free public courts anywhere in the nearby communities. This pretty much guarantees that there won't be any courts this summer and then they are replacing the 8 courts we had with two!! Another project in the city taking away free public facilities and replacing it with paid facilities for the wealthy... How do I start a petition?

 

[Kaizen]

^ I didn't realize that was the case, that's quite unfortunate for sure to lose that many courts. What's with those other 4 smaller courts, badminton?

 

[Asherlev]

That's actually devastating news. I used these tennis courts four times a week these past two summers of COVID times. There are no real alternatives for free public courts anywhere in the nearby communities. This pretty much guarantees that there won't be any courts this summer and then they are replacing the 8 courts we had with two!! Another project in the city taking away free public facilities and replacing it with paid facilities for the wealthy... How do I start a petition?

Unfortunately, due to site logistics, both existing and proposed utilities to the main building partially run underneath the existing tennis courts. Additionally, the intent is to preserve and protect as many of the existing trees as possible and lessen the overall disturance to the green space. Therefore it made sense to utilize the existing tennis court as an area to place U/G utilities and an area for the temporary placement of site laydown and trailers.

 

[CplKlinger]

That's actually devastating news. I used these tennis courts four times a week these past two summers of COVID times. There are no real alternatives for free public courts anywhere in the nearby communities. This pretty much guarantees that there won't be any courts this summer and then they are replacing the 8 courts we had with two!! Another project in the city taking away free public facilities and replacing it with paid facilities for the wealthy... How do I start a petition?

I might be looking at this wrong, but it looks to me like there'll be six tennis courts: Four smaller ones on the left, and two larger ones to the right. Thanks for the drawings @Asherlev and welcome to the forum! Feel free to tell us a bit about yourself in the introductions thread

 

[Fuzzy]

The smaller ones are for pickleball a more relaxed version of tennis usually for the elderly. If that's all the space they will use for tennis they should at least do three tennis courts and two pickleball courts.

Keep in mind during the summer all 8 of these tennis courts were in frequent use and I had to wait in line many times for a court so they were very popular within Edmonton.

 

[thommyjo]

on 97thave and 152st there are the West Jasper Place courts. Only 2, but they're not super busy because it's a smaller community. Only 5mins south of coronation.