BREAKING: McCarren Getting a Tennis Bubble
It’s been a rough few weeks for tennis bubbles in Brooklyn, what with the collapse of the one in Prospect Park in December and in Cobble Hill this week, so it’s nice to hear some good tennis bubble news for a change: According to a memo dated January 26, 2011 and addressed to Marty Markowitz…
It’s been a rough few weeks for tennis bubbles in Brooklyn, what with the collapse of the one in Prospect Park in December and in Cobble Hill this week, so it’s nice to hear some good tennis bubble news for a change: According to a memo dated January 26, 2011 and addressed to Marty Markowitz and Community Board 1 District Manager Gerry Esposito, the Parks Department plans to issue a RFP for “the development, operation and maintenance of an indoor tennis facility at McCarren Park.” The RFP, which will be for a 15-year period, comes on the heels of last year’s grass-roots-led makeover of the parks existing tennis courts by the nonprofit McCarren Tennis Association. Not surprisingly, the group is thrilled by the news. “A bubble in McCarren Park will make the tennis season year round while ensuring that the courts remain is great shape,” said Sean Hoess, President of McCarren Tennis Association. Pretty exciting!
By Yllebdael on January 28, 2011 4:13 PM
Hipsters with short-shorts and headbands are not far behind!
more like europeans. the hipsters are too busy playing kickball.
Snark! RAOTFLMMFAO! Was just gonna post something similar!
Hipsters with short-shorts and headbands are not far behind!
The McCarren Tennis Association should be careful what it wishes for. Often this type of RFP transfers all, or almost all, capital costs to the concessionaire who then can charge more than the standard parks department fee, in order to recoup the outlay and make a profit.
I don’t know the players (pun half-intended) well enough, but it would not surprise me if the tennis association, possibly in partnership with the Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn, is a proposer and a successful one. That changes the equation above.
The bubble would go up in the late fall and come down in the spring. So it’s retractable and won’t interfere with normal permitted play. Hopefully it will *not* be collapsible.
there’s an outlier in every sport and in everything in life.
*rob*
yeah man, those williams sisters really grew up with a silver spoon in their mouths.
elitist sport.
*rob*
Collapsible?