{"id":4446,"date":"2013-10-30T17:36:33","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T21:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=4446"},"modified":"2013-10-30T17:36:33","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T21:36:33","slug":"aurora-community-tennis-club-shares-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/aurora-community-tennis-club-shares-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora Community Tennis Club shares vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Aurora Community Tennis Club (ACTC) Consortium has a vision for a large tennis academy that would be a destination venue at the Stewart Burnett Park. Here\u2019s why!<br \/>\nLocation &#8211; Location &#8211; Location:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Close to 404 Highway, easy access, fast in and out;<br \/>\n\u2022 Hotel to be built across the street at Wellington and Leslie;<br \/>\n\u2022 Close to North East Plaza for restaurants and shopping;<br \/>\n\u2022 Close for ACTC relocated events due to inclement weather;<br \/>\n\u2022 Potential to Magna for Hoedown venue;<br \/>\n\u2022 Eco Park to provide additional soccer pitches so space available for Academy;<br \/>\n\u2022 A beautiful storm water pond can be created for aesthetic and geothermal purposes;<br \/>\n\u2022 Commercial benefits accruing from developing a Destination Park <\/p>\n<p>1 a) Proximity to 404 allows a Destination Park for convenient access to large catchment area of players who would rent courts. From Bradford in north to Richmond Hill in south; to King City in west to Highway 48 in the east. Easy access improves the appeal and would result in increased usage and rental income from the community\/recreational tranche.<\/p>\n<p>1 b) Destination Park Proximity to 404 allows for convenient access for international players and visitors coming from Pearson airport. Paying spectators have convenient access via Don Valley and 401 highways.<\/p>\n<p>2 a) Hotel across the street allows convenient shelter for international players\/coaches.<\/p>\n<p>3 a) North- East Plaza, Leslie and Wellington, has many restaurants and shops for visitors, and the Promenade is but a short drive for access to fooderies and pubs.<\/p>\n<p>4 a) ACTC events can be relocated with five minutes of car travel to Stewart Burnett Park.<\/p>\n<p>5 a) If the Magna Hoedown could be hosted at the Stewart Burnett Tennis Academy then more revenue  could flow to community charities and more revenue flow for the Tennis Academy so that  community rates for tennis  and pickle ball would be much less.<\/p>\n<p>6 a) The additional soccer pitches in the proposed Stronach Eco-Park frees up the space at Stewart Burnett Park for the Tennis Academy.<\/p>\n<p>7 a) The Tennis Academy requires earth berms for stadium seating. Those berms can be created from the fill scooped out of the earth to create a beautiful storm pond with arcing fountain. The storm pond would be the heat sink for a geothermal system saving much money for heating and cooling.<\/p>\n<p>8 a) The Destination Park is only fivee minutes away from Promenade area in the downtown core.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brent MacKinnon<br \/>\nBoard Member, ACTC<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F4446&#038;t=Aurora%20Community%20Tennis%20Club%20shares%20vision&#038;s=100&#038;p&#091;url&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F4446&#038;p&#091;images&#093;&#091;0&#093;=&#038;p&#091;title&#093;=Aurora%20Community%20Tennis%20Club%20shares%20vision\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/facebook.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-twitter nolightbox\" data-provider=\"twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F4446&#038;text=Like%3F\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"twitter\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/twitter.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-mail nolightbox\" data-provider=\"mail\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share by email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Aurora%20Community%20Tennis%20Club%20shares%20vision&#038;body=Like%3F:%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F4446\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mail\" title=\"Share by email\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/mail.png\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aurora Community Tennis Club (ACTC) Consortium has a vision for a large tennis academy that would be a destination venue at the Stewart Burnett Park. 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Location &#8211; Location &#8211; Location: \u2022 Close to 404 Highway, easy access, fast in and out; \u2022 Hotel to be built across the street at Wellington and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-19I","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-21 05:57:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}