downtown pickleball-Laconia

fatlazyless · 11-29-2023, 03:48 PM

Interesting report in today's Wednesday, Nov 29 Laconia Daily Sun on building a pickleball venue with eight indoor pickleball courts and a turf field on the third floor of Laconia's long defunct, Main St parking garage.

Building a large dome atop the top floor of the design troubled city parking garage, with room for eight indoor pickleball courts sounds like a SMASHING WINNER for Main St, Laconia with the local popularity for pickleball.

Whether you is a dinker or a smasher, eight new indoor courts in a roof top dome on that troubled Main St parking garage will be a winning game plan .... a smash hit!

Playing pickleball is so much better than shoveling Laconia snow as a winter activity when its here to play at that old, closed downtown Laconia garage building.

retired · 11-30-2023, 11:30 AM

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 · 11-30-2023, 12:12 PM

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 · 11-30-2023, 03:06 PM

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! ....

11-29-2023, 03:48 PM	#1
fatlazyless Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 8,737 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 300 Thanked 1,007 Times in 735 Posts	downtown pickleball-Laconia Interesting report in today's Wednesday, Nov 29 Laconia Daily Sun on building a pickleball venue with eight indoor pickleball courts and a turf field on the third floor of Laconia's long defunct, Main St parking garage. Building a large dome atop the top floor of the design troubled city parking garage, with room for eight indoor pickleball courts sounds like a SMASHING WINNER for Main St, Laconia with the local popularity for pickleball. Whether you is a dinker or a smasher, eight new indoor courts in a roof top dome on that troubled Main St parking garage will be a winning game plan .... a smash hit! Playing pickleball is so much better than shoveling Laconia snow as a winter activity when its here to play at that old, closed downtown Laconia garage building. __________________ ... down and out, liv'n that Walmart side of the lake!

11-30-2023, 11:30 AM	#2
retired Senior Member Join Date: May 2020 Location: Belmont, NH Posts: 108 Thanks: 1 Thanked 54 Times in 30 Posts	snow slide I wonder if the snow will slide off that dome onto the street and sidewalk below, much like it does on a metal roof.

11-30-2023, 03:06 PM	#4
fatlazyless Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 8,737 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 300 Thanked 1,007 Times in 735 Posts	..... ping-pong, just a friendly suggestion! 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! .... __________________ ... down and out, liv'n that Walmart side of the lake!

11-30-2023, 12:12 PM	#3
John Mercier Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2021 Posts: 3,354 Thanks: 3 Thanked 592 Times in 488 Posts	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.