SARASOTA, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Pickleball Club, a firm founded in 2019 that develops and operates private membership-based high-amenity indoor pickleball facilities throughout Florida, recently secured locations for two new clubs in Venice and Pinellas Park, bringing its total to seven clubs statewide.The Pickleball Club purchased a 5.5-acre parcel for $2.8 million in Venice, Fla. for its sixth location at the intersection of Crestview Boulevard and Jacaranda Boulevard for a 40,000-square-foot climate-controlled facility with 14 indoor pickleball courts and an outdoor activity area with two outdoor pickleball courts and two bocce ball courts.
Pickleball is the fastest growing sport in America — and Florida has become quite the hot spot.
Across the state, cities and clubs are converting their tennis courts into pickleball courts. It’s attracted high profile athletes, like LeBron James, who recently invested in a Major League Pickleball team.
The country club model is coming to the sport of pickleball.
A group of investors, among them a rear admiral who served 30 years in the U.S. Navy, is investing $180 million to build 15 private, indoor pickleball clubs in Florida. The first location for the venture – known as The Pickleball Club – will open this December near Sarasota’s Lakewood Ranch, one of the nation’s top-selling master planned communities. Additional locations are in planning or the land acquisition stage for Bonita Springs, Port St. Lucie, Fort Myers, Venice and The Villages in Sumter County, with Florida being the prime target, at least to start.
Developers opt for cheap to build, highly popular paddle sport in amenities arms race.
Real estate loves to be in on the next big thing. And lately, it’s the meteoric rise of pickleball.
Pickleball is a growing sport in the US and internationally, but it’s especially popular in Naples, Florida. Hailed as the unofficial capital of pickleball, Naples holds the US Pickleball Open every year.
Pickleball is a popular game in Florida because of the mild weather, which means that people can play it all year round. There are also a ton of tournaments emerging in the state that make Florida the ideal place for a pickleball enthusiast.
SARASOTA, Fla. – As the sport grows in popularity, pickleball clubs are popping up throughout the Bay Area and it means big business for investors,
Across The Pickleball Club in Sarasota, you’ll hear the fierce sounds of friendly competition.
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