City pays local builder to finish tennis center project abandoned by previous contractor
The Fayetteville City Council approved $1.9 million in leftover voter-approved parks and recreation bond money to pay a new contractor to complete unfinished courts as part of the Mazarick Park Tennis Center project.
Council divided over how to proceed with new bids after recent contract failures
After a disastrous experience with a contractor who defrauded the city by abandoning several parks and recreation projects, Fayetteville City Council members quarreled over how to proceed with new contracts for work on two of those projects — the Mazarick Park Tennis Center and Mable C. Smith Community Center — when bids were discussed at…