Entrepreneur couple plans Charlotte-area pickleball entertainment complex. What we know
CORRECTION: AN EARLIER VERSION OF THIS STORY LISTED A WRONG DEVELOPER OF THE PROJECT..
A longtime Cornelius entrepreneur couple plans to build a major pickleball-centered entertainment complex along Interstate 77 at Lake Norman that would include indoor and outdoor courts, a restaurant, bar and lounge and space for community events.
The Serve Pickleball and Kitchen would include 10 indoor and six outdoor courts, according to project details released by the town on Friday.
Topgolf simulators also are planned, Charlotte Observer news partner WSOC reported.
Developers Jack and Robin Salzman became the owners of Lake Norman Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram in 2003 at I-77 Cornelius exit 28. The planned pickleball complex is south of the exit along the interstate.
The Salzmans intend to detail their plans at the Cornelius Board of Commissioners meeting scheduled for 6 p.m. Monday at Town Hall, 21445 Catawba Ave.
Commissioners also will receive public comments about the project during the meeting.
The 51,000-square-foot complex would be located on 6.3 vacant acres at 20220 Chartown Drive.
The couple’s Cornelius-based DB Automotive Real Estate Holdings LLC owns the property, according to Town of Cornelius documents.
The project “is something that has been very ... intentionally focused on creating a wonderful opportunity for pickleball folks to be able to have something that you can’t find really anywhere else in North Carolina,” Lawrence Shaheen Jr., the lawyer for the project, told WSOC.
Mooresville-based Spectrum Building Co. is the project general contractor, Shaheen told The Charlotte Observer on Saturday.
