How to identify the location that we consider suitable for developing our business? It can be indoor, such as a warehouse or tensile structure, or outdoor, such as a sports club, land, open space, garden, or beach.

It is important to keep in mind that a padel center is a very significant investment and the choice of location is crucial to the success of the project.

The first evaluation is: indoor or outdoor?

Without a doubt, building inside a warehouse with a minimum height of 7 meters (9/10 meters is even better) is the wisest choice for many reasons:

  • the existing floor is often drivable, avoiding the need to build a reinforced slab costing €10–15,000 per court
  • the center can be used every day of the year, making it much more profitable
  • if you can invest in an air-conditioning system for the summer, success is almost guaranteed
  • there will be no wind or sun making lobs and bandejas difficult
  • often there is an internal, fenced parking lot, preventing customers from having their car broken into in a dark and crowded street at night
  • you can provide charging stations for electric vehicles, which will be increasingly in demand in the future
  • it will be easier to build comfortable, insulated changing rooms

If instead we cannot find any suitable building (which is quite likely, since warehouses at acceptable prices with heights and sizes adaptable to padel are very hard to find), we must opt for an outdoor solution. In that case, either we find a sports club to renovate or, if we are lucky or able to have land in an industrial or commercial area, by far the best investment is the construction of a HAN-GAR, the most innovative covering in the world of sport. It is essentially a prefabricated warehouse in wood and sandwich panels, fully eco-sustainable, with photovoltaic panels on the roof that not only offset construction costs in less than 10 years but also allow year-round play in a climate-controlled environment, which is still very rare in the padel world and beyond.

Equally important is that after about ten years, the value of a tensile structure costing hundreds of thousands of euros approaches zero, whereas a warehouse, specifically a HAN-GAR, gains value over time and can easily be converted into industrial, craft, or commercial use. For more details, we invite you to visit our website WWW.HAN-GAR.COM
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The last option is outdoor courts, which are the right solution in cases such as resorts, seaside businesses, or parks with landscape restrictions where covering is impossible, and these are “seasonal” activities. In such cases, the outdoor solution, besides being the only possible one, is also positive because it integrates well with the surrounding environment.

It is therefore clear that an indoor court is the best choice, if feasible, but the focus must then shift to the location. Certainly, opening a center in a big city will bring higher revenues than in a small town, a center near a major road exit is more accessible than one hidden in the countryside, a neighborhood with universities or factories with many workers will be more advantageous than a remote and sparsely populated area, and opening near an already successful padel center with 10–12 courts is probably not the wisest choice because, no matter how good you are, customers will still be split between two important facilities, and so on.

In short, the right location is a decisive factor in the success of the investment. If you are interested in learning how to maximize it, we invite you to read the blog HOW MUCH DOES A PADEL COURT EARN, where you will find more useful advice. Enjoy your reading.