downtown pickleball-Laconia

[retired]

I wonder if the snow will slide off that dome onto the street and sidewalk below, much like it does on a metal roof.

[John Mercier]

I think that would be the main question from an engineering standpoint.

It may be smarter to invest in tall fencing... maybe an overhead net... and allow the snow to melt into the current drainage system.

The really big item will be the first floor.
I made a suggestion to Karmen Gifford during the Pumpkinfest that the City should be looking for an alternative use. The first floor is covered and can work for anything from a dining experience to small retail booths (I was thinking the farmer's market - I think they may have called it the multicultural market)... but would work just as well for other ideas related to the Pickleball market.

[fatlazyless]

Say hey ...... pickleball lovers ...... pickleball is some type of cross combination between tennis and ping-pong. A tennis court is three times the size of a pickleball court, and a pickleball court is a lot larger than the 5'x9' playing surface of a ping-pong table.

Just maybe this newly proposed eight pickleball court downtown venue could also include two ping-pong tables as well. Playing ping-pong doesn't require the fast mobility of pickleball, and can be played by people in wheel chairs or have physical loss of movement or something. Ping-pong is a very happening game and could attract some players who don't play pickleball, anymore, so's here's to including some ping-pong tables into this new pickleball plan as well.

So, old tennis players move on to pickleball, and old pickleballers move on to ping-pong, and old ping-pongers never stop playing ping-pong is how it works .... you got that! ....