The first building scheduled to open in Boca Raton's newest public park is a club that charges monthly dues. Boca Paddle by CityPickle is set to open Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 50 W. Jeffery St. It sits on the former Ocean Breeze Golf Course in Boca Teeca, the land the Greater Boca Raton Beach & Park District is turning into North Park. Malcolm Butters, CEO of the company building it, told the Boca Raton Tribune that the club sits on 8.1 acres and has 25 courts: 19 for pickleball and six for padel. CityPickle's opening announcement puts the building at 100,000 square feet.
How "public" the club is depends on the time of day and which door you walk through. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays, a non-member renting a court pays exactly what a member pays. The restaurant asks for nothing at all. Evenings, weekends and the social side of the club are where membership makes a difference. The way the deal was set up explains why.
A park district that can't lease its land
The District bought Ocean Breeze in 2018 and paid off the bond for it in the summer of 2025, almost seven years early. Its commissioners ranked Boca Paddle first of five proposals for a recreation facility on Sept. 11, 2023. They approved the agreement on July 15, 2024, by a 4–1 vote.
That agreement is a concession, not a lease. The approved minutes from that meeting record District counsel reading from Article 1, which says "the District's Enabling Legislation prohibits the leasing, sale, or conveyance of District property." Before the vote, the board added four amendments:
- The District gets the right of first refusal if the agreement is ever assigned.
- Boca Paddle pays the District's legal fees for reviewing any assignment.
- The District's insurer reviews coverage terms every five years.
- Boca Paddle's initial fee schedule is attached to the agreement as an exhibit.
The last amendment is the one that shows up in what players pay. The club's prices became part of a public agreement before construction began. Five months earlier, in February 2024, the board had raised concerns about the proposed membership prices, and the company agreed to revisit them. The Boca Raton Tribune reported at the time that the concessionaire would build at its own cost and pay for permits.
Residents raised the same questions during public comment. According to the approved minutes of the Sept. 18, 2023 meeting, one speaker asked the District to negotiate free outdoor courts with no monthly membership or fees. The May 20, 2024 minutes record another speaker warning that a concession could set a precedent for turning recreational land into commercial ventures. The one no vote in July didn't object to the club itself. It came from a commissioner who wanted a fixed price, not fair market value, set for the day the District might buy the facility back.
The hours when membership doesn't change the price
The club's published 2026 rates define off-peak as Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. During that window, members and non-members pay the same hourly rate on every court.
| Court, per hour | Peak, Standard and Plus members | Peak, non-members and Community members | Off-peak, everyone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indoor pickleball | $60 | $80 | $45 |
| Covered stadium pickleball | $60 | $80 | $45 |
| Outdoor pickleball | $40 | $60 | $30 |
| Indoor padel | $100 | $120 | $75 |
| Covered outdoor padel | $80 | $100 | $60 |
In practice, four friends who book an indoor pickleball court at 11 a.m. on a Tuesday pay $45 for the hour whether or not any of them belongs to the club. That's $11.25 each. Book the same court at 6 p.m. and the non-member price goes up to $80, or $20 each, while members pay $60. Members only save on court time during peak hours.
The courts themselves come in three kinds: 14 indoor pickleball courts, one covered stadium court, four uncovered outdoor pickleball courts, two indoor padel courts and four covered padel courts. Padel already had a foothold in town before this. The Palm Beach Post reported in September 2025 that Padel X had opened an eight-court indoor facility on Holland Drive, which the paper called Boca Raton's first indoor padel club.
What you can do without joining
The club's own materials list four ways in for people who never sign up:
- Eat at Farmer's Kitchen. The restaurant is the center of the building. It comes from Farmer's Table, the restaurant Mitchell Robbins founded in Boca Raton. You don't need a membership or a day pass to dine there. The Sun Sentinel reports it will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner and have a full-service bar. Culinary director Michael Schenk is building a menu around the protein needs of pickleball and padel players.
- Rent a court by the hour at the non-member rates in the table above.
- Take an intro clinic. Group clinics cost $40 an hour for pickleball and $50 for padel. Intro clinics are the only ones open to non-members.
- Buy a day pass. It costs $40, or $35 for Boca Raton residents who show proof of residence, and you buy it at the club. A day pass includes full use of the club's amenities, entry to that day's off-peak programs and a 24-hour booking window.
Open play, social programs and leagues are for members only. Those are the parts of the club where regulars get to know each other, and they're the part a day pass doesn't open.
Butters described the setup this way in his interview with the Boca Raton Tribune:
"While Boca Paddle will be a membership-based sports and lifestyle facility, our inaugural membership is limited to 1,000 members and the public will also be able to purchase day passes, with Boca Raton residents receiving a special rate on day passes."
The membership tiers follow the same clock
The tiers are built around those same weekday hours. The cheapest one, Community, costs $49 a month, and the club markets it as "Your midday getaway." It covers off-peak programs and has a three-day booking window. At peak hours, Community members pay the member court rate plus $20 an hour, the same as a non-member.
The full-access tiers are Standard at $149 a month and Plus at $299. Plus adds 12 open play passes and two guest passes a month, plus a 14-day booking window instead of 10. Couple memberships cost $268 or $418 a month. Family memberships cost $399 or $549 and cover up to five people in one household, with no more than two adults. There's no initiation fee, annual billing comes with one month free, and members can cancel with 30 days' notice.
Put it all together and the tiers show where the club expects its busiest hours. The lowest-priced tier gives you weekday daytimes. The higher tiers mainly buy cheaper evening and weekend courts and a place in open play and leagues.
The rest of North Park is still filling in
The club takes up a small piece of a much larger park. In September 2026, the District called North Park a 70-acre project and said the east-side work under way would add more than five miles of trails, a dog park, a playground and exercise stations. The District held that groundbreaking at the southeast parking lot near Boca Paddle. Trails and walking paths were among the features residents asked for most in the District's design workshops.
The piece of North Park already open is the Traffic Garden. Crews turned old tennis-court pavement on Jeffery Street, west of NW 2nd Avenue, into a car-free course where kids learn bike and road safety. It opened in August 2025. The District has since added restrooms and a shaded seating area for parents, and there's a parking lot right next to it.
If you live near Jeffery Street, all of this is changing what's around your home. A 25-court club, a public restaurant, a traffic-safety playground and miles of planned trails now share land that was an empty golf course. If you're wondering how North Park's buildout affects your home's value, The Silver Team has followed this corner of Boca Raton for decades and can show you how nearby homes are pricing as the park takes shape. Get your free home valuation and consultation, and we'll start with your block.