Amherst CPA recreation requests include Groff Park pickleball

AMHERST — Amherst’s first pickleball courts, which would be constructed at Groff Park, 83 Mill Lane, and a bathroom for the Plum Brook soccer fields, are among six active recreation projects seeking $1.72 million from the Community Preservation Act account. Amherst Recreation Director Rey Harp, supported by the Department of Public Works, recently submitted an $850,000 request to get the pickleball courts built at the South Amherst location and make associated Americans with Disabilities Act improvements. “This proposal is to request the additional funding needed to complete the installation of public pickleball courts and will fund the permitting, surface prep and drainage work, install a construction access and extend the ADA access trail to the courts, and then toconstruct the pickleball courts with all the necessary appurtenances such as fencing, nets, and any necessary sound attenuating features,” Harp wrote in the application.

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