Strategic Facility Improvement Plan<\/a>, a long-term development started in 2014 and 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cWe built the recreation centers as well as the Steel and Pipe Supply Ballpark,\u201d Stewart said. \u201cThe tennis courts are identified as a major piece of that study.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 0.25% quality of life sales tax in Manhattan funded these recreational additions. Of the money the sales tax generated, $17.5 million went toward the CiCo Park project, with the tennis courts taking up $2.4 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Grace Geisbrecht, junior in athletic training, said it is important to provide community members with a designated space for outdoor exercise.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is beneficial for people to be active,\u201d Geisbrecht said. \u201cThe new renovations of the tennis courts provide space for that. It was hard for us to find good available tennis courts because the other ones were in bad shape and beat up.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Stewart said the three older courts were previously described as unusable and were then identified for replacement. Expanding from three to eight, the new courts provide the Manhattan community more accessibility and designate a facility for the Manhattan High School tennis team.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur goal is to eventually host tournaments including high school regionals and also with the United States Tennis Association (USTA),\u201d Stewart said. \u201cWe\u2019d like to see a significant increase [in the] Tennis programming at that location. \u2026 The real purpose to build them is for our local users, including our youth and adults for both drop-in use and new programs.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manhattan\u2019s first-ever post-tensioned tennis courts officially opened at CiCo Park on Aug. 29, with many community members attending…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-337145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}