There are 13 article(s) tagged Leftwich Tennis Center:
The $31.5 million complex — a public-private partnership — will include 12 indoor courts, serve as the home for the Tigers’ men’s and women’s tennis teams and be open to the paying public.
What’s ahead this week? Leftwich Tennis Center will reopen, Downtown Dining Week is happening, and Mississippi voters are headed to the polls.
The nonprofit that runs four of the city’s tennis facilities announced price increases for the newly renovated tennis center.
The Audubon Park golf course will change dramatically with the redesign; every hole will be part of the project and the course itself will be expanded.
Tennis Memphis is hoping to get more people, especially children, into the sport through various initiatives including an upcoming eight-week course at two South Memphis parks.
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The start of construction follows last-minute changes in the project that upped the price by $6 million and added more courts. The center will keep the name of the Marine lieutenant colonel for whom it is named.
The loan comes as construction costs are rising nationwide. The loan is covered by private donations pledged over several years as well as raising $2.5 million more from donors. The University of Memphis has pledged to cover any shortfall in raising the additional private funds.
The estimated $19 million project will provide 12 indoor courts, 24 outdoor courts and other amenities for both public tennis players and the University of Memphis Tiger tennis teams.
Tiger tennis teams will practice where courts are available while waiting for Leftwich Tennis Center's $19 million renovation and expansion.
With the closing of the Racquet Club, the Memphis tennis teams are playing home matches at various locales as the wait for completion of renovation on Leftwich Tennis Center.
City council members Tuesday approved the city's $3 million portion of the $19 million Leftwich Tennis Center expansion project.
The city's $3 million commitment to the $19 million undertaking would come from a source some city council members say could have been tapped for other priorities.
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