{"id":185513,"date":"2026-05-06T17:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/185513\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T17:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:48:07","slug":"building-contract-awarded-for-pickleball-courts-in-mcdade-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/185513\/","title":{"rendered":"Building contract awarded for pickleball courts in McDade park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 McDade Park in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lackawanna County<\/a> is getting four pickleball courts this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The county commissioners on Wednesday awarded the building contract to Wince Construction, of Ransom Township, the lowest responsible bidder at $200,444.<\/p>\n<p>The project is funded entirely out of a $400,000 Local Share Account grant awarded in the 2024-2025 round, so the county&#8217;s general fund wont be touched, according to county officials.<\/p>\n<p>The new pickleball courts will be adjacent to the park&#8217;s existing tennis courts, which are also slated for a revamp,\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tom Carlucci, the county&#8217;s director of economic development, said during Wednesday&#8217;s public meeting he did not have an exact timeline for the work, but the bid paperwork puts completion before July 31, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said the construction will add a &#8220;highly attractive public amenity&#8221; to one of the county&#8217;s parks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a strong investment,&#8221; Carlucci said.<\/p>\n<p>The scope of the work covers installation of pathways, four pickleball courts, fences, gates, earthwork, erosion and sedimentation controls, storm drainage and landscaping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 McDade Park in Lackawanna County is getting four pickleball courts this summer. The county commissioners&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-185513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}