Quaker Valley area pickleball players can rejoice as a new place to play in Sewickley will soon be constructed.

Four new pickleball courts are in the works for Chadwick Street Park.

Other upgrades include a full-size tennis court, new fencing, restructuring of the basketball court and new landscaping by the railroad tracks. The four pickleball courts could also turn into a full-size tennis court.

It’s all part of an estimated $324,000 project slated to start late spring that’s expected to be done by the end of the year, borough engineer Mike Galet said.

Council voted 7-0 March 11 to award the work to Palombo Landscaping. Council Vice President Julie Barnes and Councilman Tom Rostek were absent.

Galet said the company was the lowest of 11 bidders and recommended by his firm, Gateway Engineers.

The work is being partially funded by a $126,000 state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources grant. The remaining $198,000 will come from borough funds.

Bridgett Bates, councilwoman and parks and recreation committee member, said the park’s existing tennis courts were in need of an upgrade, and residents have been clamoring for more recreational options.

“The courts, at a minimum, needed serious attention,” she said. “In light of lots of people talking to us about pickleball, many, many, many, many people reaching out to us about pickleball courts. We decided if we were going to take action on that space that we could incorporate that.”

Chadwick is just the latest Sewickley park eyed for upgrades this year.

Council in February authorized applying for a state rehabilitation and development program grant of more than $290,000 through the Commonwealth Financing Authority to help pay for pedestrian improvements to War Memorial Park.

There may be a 25% to 50% borough match required depending on what is awarded.

The 20-acre park’s walking trail, including the access point from the woods by the Sewickley Valley YMCA parking lot along Blackburn Road, will be resurfaced and made more accessible per the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Its old wooden bridges may be removed this summer and replaced with steel ones.

“We did an evaluation of all the parks and we made some priority lists, and we’re working through those,” Bates said.

In other business

• Council on March 11 tabled action on the borough building being a host site for a PurpleAir monitor to detect air quality.

PurpleAir makes sensors that empower communities who collect hyper-local, real-time air quality data and share it with the public, according to the company’s website.

Council President Cynthia Mullins said more discussion was necessary and a motion to move forward with the project may be on next month’s agenda.

Nearby Edgeworth has a PurpleAir monitor on its maintenance building off Ohio River Boulevard and Chestnut Road. People can check the air quality data on map.purpleair.com.

• Sewickley’s spring leaf clean up program runs March 31 through April 11.

Residents may rake their leaves between the curb and sidewalk for collection by the borough’s leaf vacuum machine.

It does not pick up branches. Branches are to be cut into 4-foot lengths and taken out on regular trash day for pick up by Waste Management.