Pickleball Courts Open at Buccleuch Park in New Brunswick

The pickleball courts at Buccleuch Park are now open as the city moves forward with renovations to one of its biggest and most widely used recreation spaces.

The clack-clack-clack of paddle meeting ball will fill the 78-acre park after work has been completed to turn 14 fading tennis courts into eight new tennis courts and 18 pickleball courts.

The courts represent only a small part of the work being done at Buccleuch Park, where further renovations are being carried out by Halecon Inc. after it was awarded a $1.3 million contract for work at the park and Alice Jennings Archibald Park's sports courts at the March 5 City Council meeting.

Most of the renovations surround Buccleuch Park's icon gazebo, which was scheduled to have a decorative cupula - a small, dome-like architectural piece - added to the top.

The public bathrooms at Buccleuch Park were also overhauled. They were stripped down to their studs and rebuilt.

The bathrooms have been rebuilt in a style that best complements Buccleuch Mansion - a former residence that was built in 1739, hosted George Washington several times and remains one of the few remaining structures in the United States that served as headquarters for British and Colonial soldiers.

Story By: Chuck O'Donnell
Photo By: City of New Brunswick