The Alameda County Fairgrounds has long been a home for 4-H kids, Future Farmers of America students and the region’s agricultural traditions.
Could it also become one of the Bay Area’s biggest destinations for pickleball?
The 262-acre county-owned property in Pleasanton still looks the part of a classic fairground, with its dirt racetrack, grandstands and barns. But it has evolved into an increasingly lucrative year-round events complex, with plans for a new hotel, a renovated off-track betting facility, a wine courtyard — and possibly 32 pickleball courts, an idea introduced at a public meeting on Tuesday…