MOBILE, Ala. (WPMI) — Mayor Sandy Stimpson and City Council Vice President Gina Gregory will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Lavretta Park at 9 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 27, to celebrate Mobile’s newest public pickleball courts.
Tomorrow’s ribbon cutting marks the end of a two-year project that has added six dedicated pickleball courts to Lavretta Park and made other significant upgrades to the park’s infrastructure. Those include additional parking, drainage and lighting improvements, a new players’ pavilion, a drinking fountain, and enhanced landscaping throughout the property. Altogether, this project put more than $1 million into this beloved neighborhood using the City of Mobile’s Capital Improvement Program (CIP).
This project is part of a larger effort to expand pickleball facilities in City parks. Three new courts and similar upgrades were just completed at Hillsdale Park, thanks to the support of Councilwoman Gregory. An ongoing project at Crawford-Murphy Park will bring another four courts online, and work is underway to renovate four existing courts at Stotts Park. Thanks to this dedicated effort by the Mobile Parks and Recreation Department (MPRD) and support from Mayor Stimpson and the city council, Mobile will soon have more than 20 dedicated public pickleball courts for residents to enjoy…