Pickleball

Chicken N Pickle has 15 locations either open or soon to open, most of them scattered across Texas, Oklahoma and Colorado.

Chicken N Pickle would build a two-story building with about 20,000 square feet of space that includes a restaurant, six indoor pickleball courts and an outdoor social area.

Chicken N Pickle would run the outside pickleball courts built by the Village. Estero residents would get first dibs to use the courts.

Plans in works for entertainment center off Via Coconut in Estero

Estero Village’s staff and consultants will be busy the rest of the summer finishing plans for an entertainment center off Via Coconut Way and Williams Road.The Village council gave the staff the go ahead last week at its final meeting before the summer hiatus to negotiate agreements with Chicken N Pickle, of North Kansas City, Missouri, and High 5 Entertainment, of Austin, Texas, to provide entertainment facilities on 10 acres of the 20-acre site.

Scenes from the Minto US OPEN Pickleball Championships in Naples, Florida, during Tuesday’s play. Over 3000 athletes participated and over 5000 matches of Pickleball will be played. Finals will be played on Saturday.

Arts & Culture

Over 3,000 players flood Naples for U.S. Open pickleball games

Cary Barbor

The world’s largest pickleball event is happening this week in southwest Florida.

Sports

Bonita Springs YMCA Spends $300,000 on Pickleball

Rachel Iacovone

A Southwest Florida YMCA recently spent more than a quarter of a million dollars to update its facilities for the nation’s fastest-growing sport many have…