The new Goleta indoor pickleball facility, The Picklr, is set to open its doors at the Fairview Shopping Center in early May. 

The facility plans to host a grand opening on May 2, according to Jake Wong, who represents owners and local residents Ted and Trish Guggenheim. The event will serve as an open house for the community, including “play opportunities, tours, food trucks and giveaways,” Wong said. 

The facility will have seven professional-grade courts, including two championship-size ones. There will also be warm-up and cool-down rooms with fitness equipment, lockers, showers, a community lounge, artificial intelligence training systems, ball machines, dink courts and a professional shop, according to Wong.

The Picklr will be open seven days a week from 6 a.m. to midnight at 189 N. Fairview Ave. in an effort to accommodate community members who work early or late, according to Ted Guggenheim.

A founder membership sale is set to begin on Wednesday for people to secure a spot for $179, ahead of the grand opening.

The owners first announced in December that the pickleball courts would be taking over the former Bed Bath & Beyond store.   

While the space will function as a sports facility, it will maintain the bright blue color of the former home goods store.

The Goleta location is one of The Picklr’s newest additions to its 100 “home clubs” across the country.

Shortly after the grand opening announcement, Ted Guggenheim went in front of Goleta’s Design Review Board on Tuesday to present the proposed design for the storefront’s mounted sign. 

“We are just very excited to be able to bring something new and healthy and something that drives the community to Goleta,” he said.

The board approved the proposed illuminated sign with minimal feedback. 

There was a concern brought up by board member James van Order that the sign might be too bright at night because it would be the only sign in that shopping center illuminated. 

Guggenheim said the sign’s light is planned to be warm and that the sign is consistent with the shopping center’s policies regarding brightness.

Board member Scott Branch said he is not worried about the light because the sign faces the parking lot and not nearby homes.  

“It will be nice to have somebody at the end of the shopping center since Rite Aid went vacant and it’s been vacant for a while,” board member Cecilia Brown said.

Board member Jonathan Eymann was not present at the meeting.