Salt Lake City’s Public Lands Department has decided plans to convert four of the eight tennis courts at Glendale Park into at least pickleball courts in the next two years.
Ifa Motuliki of the Die Hard Pickleballerz returns a shot while playing at the Fairmont Park courts in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, April 11, 2023. After the league's efforts to make space for the sport in west-side public spaces, Salt Lake City decided to repurpose four of the Glendale Park tennis courts for pickleball play.
Pickleball player Ifa Motuliki, who lives in Salt Lake City’s Glendale neighborhood, wasn’t happy that all of the city’s public courts for his favorite game were on the east side of town. Motuliki said he and his league, the Die Hard Pickleballerz, regularly found themselves walking or driving by the eight often-empty tennis courts at Glendale Park, at 1375 W. 1700 South. They wondered, he said, what would happen if the space better reflected the new needs of the neighborhood.Salt Lake City’s Public Lands Department has decided plans to convert four of the eight tennis courts into at least six pickleball courts in the next two years. “It’s gonna be a great thing, I think,” Motuliki said. “To me, this is the best move that the city could have made.”change the vision plan for the area that will be Glendale Regional Park. Motuliki said he believes the courts could dramatically improve visitorship in the park, as 1700 South is already well-used by his neighbors. “You watch. It’s gonna be busy all day,” he said. “And hopefully, they will put a light on that pickleball court. It’s going to be all day, all night.”Four of the current tennis courts will remain in place, while the other four will be made over to create at least six pickleball courts, said Tom Millar, planning manager for the Public Lands Department. New fences will be installed, and the courts will be resurfaced, with shorter lines appropriate for pickleball play, Millar said. A regulation tennis court,
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