Pickleball Courts Open At Lavretta Park; More To Come

A ribbon-cutting ceremony was recently held at Lavretta Park to celebrate Mobile’s newest public pickleball courts. The event marked the end of a two-year project that added six dedicated pickleball courts to Lavretta Park and made other significant upgrades to the park’s infrastructure, including additional parking, drainage and lighting improvements, a new players’ pavilion, a drinking fountain and enhanced landscaping throughout the property. Altogether, this project put more than $1 million into the neighborhood using the City of Mobile’s Capital Improvement Program. This project is part of a larger effort to expand pickleball facilities in city parks. Three new courts and similar upgrades were just completed at Hillsdale Park, and an ongoing project at Crawford-Murphy Park will bring another four courts online. Work is underway to renovate four existing courts at Stotts Park. Mobile will soon have more than 20 dedicated public pickleball courts.