A pickleball war has erupted in a gated, waterfront community in West Palm Beach, FL—with each side forming an LLC to duke it out with legal representation.
At the center of the war is a disagreement over whether to build six new pickleball courts at Riverwalk of the Palm Beaches. The community already has eight existing courts.
“If you get on the wrong side of pickleballers, they hate you forever,” says real estate attorney Joshua Payne, of Pincus & Currier, who is representing the community members who oppose the pickleball courts. “They’re so avid, there’s no in-between with them.”
The trouble with pickleball
Riverwalk of the Palm Beaches is a large community consisting of single-family houses and townhomes with an average price of $537,849, according to Point2Homes…