Creating the facility, despite the interest, hasn’t come without risk.

Voskoboinikov has put hundreds of thousands towards the project, with large capital investments up front to cover purchases like professional competition grade floors from Tomko, the creation of amenity and socializing areas, and unique for a space of its size, sound proofing before operations begin.

“The amount of money you spend on this thing, and this is basically what people want, this is your business right here. So, you want to make sure it’s as perfect as you can get, and that’s what we did,” he said.

Andy Strasser, President of Merlin Integrated Solutions, which has been installing the soundproofing on the roof, said the amount of fabric needed for the roof overwhelmed their supplier’s factory.

That work is being done not to make the entire court space free from sound, but so that when players are hitting balls on one end of the building, it means people can have a normal conversation on the other.

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