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Council approves 5‑court indoor pickleball facility, restaurant and retail at Coppell Entertainment Plaza with conditions
Summary
The council approved a 17,655‑square‑foot building containing five indoor pickleball courts, speculative restaurant and retail at Coppell Entertainment Plaza (PD‑323 HC) with conditions including a six‑foot screening wall and TxDOT drainage approval.
The council approved Plan Development 323 HC (Coppell Entertainment Plaza, Lot 1 Block A), permitting a 17,655‑square‑foot building with five indoor pickleball courts, a speculative restaurant and retail spaces on a 1.6‑acre site north of Highway 121, subject to conditions recommended by Planning & Zoning.
Planning staff said the facility will be staffed until midnight and monitored remotely overnight via security cameras; hours of operation for the pickleball facility were included in the recommendation (24/7 operation) and the restaurant hours were set at 6 a.m.–midnight to avoid a separate PD amendment for hours. The applicant agreed during P&Z to construct a six‑foot masonry screening wall along the northern property line adjacent to the Coppell Greens subdivision; the wall must be built before vertical construction. A plat must be recorded prior to permitting and TxDOT approval of the drainage tie‑in is required.
The site plan provides 73 parking spaces where 66 are required and includes a detention area that connects to TxDOT drainage systems; staff listed tree mitigation requirements and a landscape plan consistent with ordinance standards. Materials were revised since P&Z to use red brick and stone to better match adjacent buildings.
Applicant Jason Chen described the operation model used at an existing facility: an indoor, membership‑oriented club with academies, leagues and tournaments; Chen said his other location grew to several thousand registered users in a year and the Coppell location aims to replicate that model with a small coffee/bakery concept in the speculative restaurant space.
The council closed the public hearing and approved the PD with P&Z conditions. Voting in favor were Mayor Walker; Mayor Pro Tem Nevills; Council Members Hinojosa Smith, Carroll, Prem Kumar, Matthew and Hill. Required follow-up items include final engineering review, plat recordation and construction of the six‑foot screening wall before buildings go vertical.
