Work began last week to resurface some of the city's most dilapidated tennis courts.
San Francisco Recreation and Parks received an $864,000 grant from nonprofit San Franciscans for Sports and Recreation (SFSR) to help fund resurfacing for up to 24 of the 151 public courts across the city’s parks system.
Last year, Rec and Park and SFSR identified those tennis courts as the ones most in need of resurfacing.
“We have focused on providing grant funding to resurface tennis courts that were in the most need of resurfacing, and for which other sources of funding were not readily available,” SFSR vice president Seth Socolow said in a statement.
Socolow said the money should support the resurfacing of nine courts at four locations this year, and a similar number of projects in 2018.
The courts at McLaren Park, Moscone Recreation Center, West Portal Playground, and Golden Gate Heights Park will be resurfaced first. Construction started at Golden Gate Heights Park last week.
Repair work at each court is expected to take four to eight weeks. Rec and Parks has also set aside $1.5 million from its general fund budget to resurface sports courts over the past two fiscal years.
More than $1 million of that funding targets tennis courts that "are in most dire need of repair and located in neighborhoods with high recreation needs and demands," said the agency.
The tennis courts that will see resurfacing via public funding are located across the city:
- Tenderloin Recreation Center
- Hayes Valley Playground
- Merced Heights
- Oceanview Playground
- Minnie & Lovie Ward Recreation Center
- Jose Coronado Playground
- Alice Chalmers Playground
- Crocker Amazon Park
- Alamo Square
Courts at Excelsior Playground and Rolph Playground were already resurfaced with public funds.
