Tennis Anyone? Swim/Tennis Neighborhoods in Alpharetta area
categories: Miscellaneous, Stuff I like to talk about
While a large part of the country was shoveling snow over the weekend, tennis season is in full swing in Atlanta. I’m not a tennis player myself, but I have never lived in a more tennis-active city. Last Saturday, I was out with a client from the Great White North who commented that she was amazed at how popular tennis was here.
Indeed, the Atlanta Lawn Tennis Association (ALTA) has over 80,000 members who play competitive, recreational tennis on neighborhood courts throughout the city. For $20 a year you can team up with your neighbor or office mate, hit a few overheads and pull a few hamstrings. Atlanta apparently has the second largest local tennis association in the country.
The tennis facilities of some of the North Fulton neighborhoods are quite impressive; they would put my high school to shame. I was in the Seven Oaks subdivision today near McGinnis Ferry and Jones Bridge roads. What great tennis facilities they have: eight gleaming newly-surfaced courts in that trendy bright blue color. (The reason I know they are newly-surfaced is because from Google Earth they show up the old green color!) There were about a dozen neighborhood kids taking lessons in the 65 degree weather.
There are roughly 850 homes in Seven Oaks and with annual HOA dues at $1,420, that is a budget of over $1.2 million. For that amount of money, maybe they should have surfaced the courts with something shinier. Regardless, the neighborhood has great amenities, which include a pool, basketball court, fishing lake, park and gazebo. All this is possible because the neighborhood has enough critical mass to support it all.
On the other (west) side of GA-400, there are fewer large neighborhoods. Some that come to mind that have nice swim tennis facilities are Edenwilde ($620 year dues and six tennis courts) and Crooked Creek ($912 per year dues and nine tennis courts). Edenwilde also apparently has a swim team in the summer that you don’t have to live in the neighborhood to be on. (Please comment on this post if that is not the case.) Few neighborhoods have pools large enough for a swim team. Two other neighborhoods with swim teams are White Columns and Herrington Falls.
All this said, there are a lot more neighborhoods than you would think that don’t have swim tennis facilities. It is amazing that you can spend a million dollars on a home and not have a pool to jump into. The problem is that many neighborhoods are too small to support the amenities; and the builders didn’t want to give up a lot of two during development for such a “luxury.” Simply put, having a basement and having neighborhood swim tennis for the family are the two most frequent requirements in a house from my clients.
Therefore, I offer this completely informal list of neighborhoods in Milton that offer some type of swim tennis amenity. This list is not likely 100% accurate, but my first attempt. If you have corrections, please comment to this post.
With almost 70 degree weather today and the smell of Spring already in the air, it won’t be long before we are actually at the pool instead of just writing about it…and any time of year is tennis time in Atlanta.
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