Village Confirms Herrick Park Phase 1A Complete with Three New Tennis Courts

The Village of East Hampton’s project page for Herrick Park Renovation: Phase 1A now lists the work as “Complete!” and continues to describe “brand‑new tennis courts (3),” with The LandTek Group Inc. named as the contractor. The updated municipal page reaffirms the Phase 1A scope of court, field, and pathway improvements after an on‑site run of construction behind covered chain‑link fences this past season.

The East Hampton Village Foundation’s project write‑up echoes the village site, saying, “We are so excited to have completed phase 1A of the Herrick Park Renovation project just before the 2023 summer season began. It has been six months since the completion of the Herrick Park renovations.” The foundation specifically notes: “We built a new tennis area with three tennis courts complete with sports lighting, with many patrons taking advantage of early morning or late night matches,” plus “brand new ADA‑compliant paths surrounding the park” and “creation of new sidewalks connecting Reutershan and the Long‑Term Parking Lot.”

Funding for Phase 1A was aided by a March 17, 2023 ceremonial groundbreaking in which East Hampton Village Foundation Chairman and CEO Bradford Billet “presented the Village of East Hampton with a check for over 1 million dollars for the renovation of Herrick Park.” At that same village board meeting the board accepted a donation described by the village paper as “just over $1 million” to cover the expense and approved Phase 1A construction.

On the planning side, LaGuardia Design Group was officially hired in July 2019 to reimagine Herrick Park, with design goals that included improved circulation, reconfigured ball fields and tennis courts, upgraded lighting, and integrating the existing park acreage with nearly three additional acres acquired through the Community Preservation Fund. Design and proposal work dating to 2019 is also reflected in an MB Architecture proposal that says, “In July of 2019 we decided to self‑initiate a design strategy that would bring life back to Herrick Park, the one and only park in the village of East Hampton.”

Contractor activity on the ground has been described both as The LandTek Group Inc. on the village site and as Land Tek in reporting that noted the firm “recently installed the ball fields on Stephen Hand’s Path.” Village administrator Marcos Baladron has explained the project phasing decisions, writing, “During the estimation process for phase 1 we discovered that by flipping the softball and tennis courts we added over $1 million to the cost of construction,” and, “By splitting phase 1 into A and B, we confirmed we could go ahead and get the work done by summer and that the East Hampton Village Foundation had all the funds to pay for the entirety of it.”

Not all work associated with the park has been smooth. As reported at a village February meeting, “At its February meeting, the village was hit with nearly $100,000 in change orders for the renovation of the Herrick Park bathrooms, a project that was initially supposed to be completed last spring at a cost of $600,000. Work began in December 2022. At the time, Mayor Larsen predicted it would be complete by the end of January, but the bathrooms are still closed to the public.” The East Hampton Star also notes that pickleball and the baseball field were left out of Phase 1A and that “softball diamond and tennis courts will now remain in roughly the same location as before.”

With Phase 1A listed as complete on the village project page and three new lighted tennis courts now in community use according to the foundation, attention is shifting to unresolved bathroom work, the future location of removed basketball or pickleball courts, and the yet‑to‑be‑unveiled plans for Phase 1B, Phase 2 and Phase 3, which Baladron has said will target the playground on Newtown Lane and the newly acquired properties near the long‑term parking lot.