Pickleball Club owner: ‘You are our market’

While Sarasota-based The Pickleball Club's first of 15 planned locations will open in Lakewood Ranch in less than a week, its owner has always eyed St. Petersburg.

Brian McCarthy told the Catalyst that he might never find the land needed to build one of his expansive facilities in the densely developed city, but Pinellas Park is just about six miles north. His company is now under contract to buy an eight-acre parcel in the Gateway Centre Business Park for $1.75 million.

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Arts Alive! podcast: Paul Wilborn

If the arts in St. Petersburg had a face, that face would look like Paul Wilborn’s.

The longtime executive director of the Palladium Theater at St. Petersburg College seems to have a hand in everything. Under his guidance, the 850-seat Palladium – built as a Christian Science church in 1925 - has become ground zero for concerts that don’t need a big hall (or can’t afford the rent), but are too large for a teensy one. Jazz, cabaret, blues, dance and even opera have found the Palladium (which includes a big room and a snug café space) the ideal fit, from national acts to local and regional. “We went to these genres,” Wilborn says, “and we found audiences.”

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