New Arch Pickleball & Badminton in Bridgeton set to be the largest indoor pickleball facility in the U.S.

By Drew Gieseke

A new pickleball facility will debut in late fall 2024 in Bridgeton, Missouri, with an impressive distinction as the country's largest indoor facility dedicated to pickleball. For first-generation Chinese-American entrepreneurs (and husband-and-wife duo) Marshall Pan and Diana Fan, Arch Pickleball & Badminton’s new facility represents an amazing evolution that almost didn't come to fruition.

"We started our badminton club in 2015, but by 2020, the pandemic hit, and we had to close," says Arch Pickleball & Badminton co-founder and co-owner Marshall Pan. "We thought that was it. Then, I started playing pickleball."

The Intelica team negotiated the acquisition for Pan and Fan. From the beginning, they worked closely with the city, which embraced the relocation and saw it as an integral economic driver for the destination.

"Bridgeton was hyper-focused on not having an empty building much longer," says Intelica vice president of brokerage Brendan O'Brien. "And we showed them a path to this, bringing in a ton of people from all over."

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