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A few years ago, a group of senior tennis players approached Wendy Allegrone, the director of the Recreation Department in Brewster, Mass., to complain about the condition of the town’s tennis courts. Tucked behind the Brewster firehouse, the Nickerson Tennis Courts were in urgent need of repair and, in some cases, no longer playable.
“We have a large, active senior-tennis population here, and the courts were in really bad shape,” Allegrone says. “The town considered fixing them, but it would’ve cost $100,000, maybe more. Instead, a decision was made to start from scratch and build new courts elsewhere.”
The result was a tennis complex that may set a new standard for all future public tennis facilities. Best of all, the project can be replicated in communities and at tennis facilities across the country--and it has.