Plans for tennis, pickleball complex at Joe Creason Park have been canceled

Residents celebrate 'saving' Joe Creason Park after tennis complex project canceled

Neighbors protested against a $65 million dollar tennis and pickleball complex by the Kentucky Tennis & Pickleball Center. They celebrated the project being canceled

Plans for tennis, pickleball complex at Joe Creason Park have been canceled

Mayor Craig Greenberg, D-Louisville, announced it would not move forward after hundreds of people expressed concern at a public meeting.

Mayor scraps controversial Joe Creason Park tennis, pickleball project

Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg says the plan to build a controversial tennis and pickleball complex at Joe Creason Park will not move forward.

'The process worked' | Louisville mayor says Joe Creason Park tennis center plan is dead

The $65 million project to add courts and other facilities at Creason Park was announced in April.

Greenberg faults: Controversial tennis, pickleball project cancelled

Will Davis said it was January 2023 – at the start of Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg’s tenure – when a group of tennis and pickleball aficionados approached the new mayor’s chief of staff about potentially building an athletic complex at Joe Creason Park.Davis, chief executive of the group that’s now called the Kentucky Tennis & Pickleball Center, said discussions with the mayor’s “whole team” followed.The mayor went on to publicly support the…