Kevin J Berk and Brett Warner, founders of PURE Pickleball & Padel , plan to build the world’s largest indoor pickleball facility in Arizona. Here’s what they shared with ABC15 about the massive project in the works.
“Pickleball is the fastest-growing sport in the country. [In the] last four years, one out of five Americans played it last year. There is no hotter community for playing this sport than Scottsdale, Arizona, and so building the largest indoor pickleball facility in Scottsdale makes sense. Being the host site for national-level tournaments is part of the plan, and we’re going to be showcasing the sport for all ages, all skill levels, all the way up to the pros, and will be the home of the AZ Drive Pro Team for Major League Pickleball,” said Warner.
According to its founders, the facility aims to be a pickleball country club-like facility for the Valley.
“We’ll have all the amenities you would imagine of a country club. So, we will have retail, we’ll have a restaurant, [a] bar, we’ll have exercise and fitness equipment and recovery, locker rooms with Jacuzzi, red light, sauna, cold plunge. We’ll have childcare. We’ll have a youth study room so parents can literally drop their kids off after school, they can grab a bite to eat, go upstairs, [and] do their homework,” said Berk, who added that there will also be special event spaces. “We’ll have a dedicated VIP card key access-only room on the second floor and we’ll have a special rooftop bar that can accommodate approximately 400 people, it [has] incredible views of the McDowell’s on the east side and then on the west side of Camelback Mountain.”