Presentation scheduled for new sports facilities at Harbor Island Park
Sportime and the village of Mamaroneck will present to the public May 5 joint $7-10 million plans to bring in new sports facilities and fields to Harbor Island Park.
“I think the general concept is excellent,” Mayor Norm Rosenblum said. “I think it will improve the recreation access for everybody in the village and maintain and improve some revenue streams.”
The presentation is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. May 5 in the village court room.
Under a licensing agreement with the village, Sportime operates the aging tennis facility at Harbor Island Park running programs and events that have brought tennis megastars such as Pete Sampras, John McEnroe and Venus and Serena Williams to the village. Among the plans in Sportime’s joint proposal with the village is building a new 20,000 sq. ft. multisport facility. The plans also call for redesigning the tennis facility and relocating it behind the Westchester County sewage treatment plant near the park. Sportime is currently working with the village on moving around some of the other existing fields which will bring in 2-3 athletic fields to one of the village’s busiest parks.
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Is this a joke? Eliminating heavily used waterfront athletic fields and general recreation areas and replacing them with a PRIVATE gym. And using taxpayer money, all because Sportime has offered the village an upfront payment. Why not put the indoor lacrosse space by 95, and keep the waterfront open.
Also, the picture of the proposed developments are quite misleading, as for 8-9 months a year, the tennis courts will be covered by Sportime’s bubble. The same bubble just rejected by NYC for the Central Park courts because it would be a visual blight.
I know times are tough for municipalities, but letting private companies pave over a public waterfront park is too much.