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      <title>The five numbers that decide whether a centre gets built</title>
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      <description>Court hours, utilisation, yield per court hour, fixed cost per week and the ramp. The five feasibility numbers that decide whether a padel, pickleball, tennis or futsal centre stacks up.</description>
      <category>Feasibility</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Reading a site before you sign the lease</title>
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      <description>Clear height, column grid, floor loading, parking, access and acoustics. What to check on a warehouse or a greenfield site before it becomes a padel, pickleball, tennis or futsal centre.</description>
      <category>Site &amp; property</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Why court projects stall at the DA, and how to keep yours moving</title>
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      <description>Acoustics, traffic and parking, hours of operation, lighting spill and change of use. The development application issues that hold up padel, pickleball, tennis and futsal centres, and how to get ahead of them.</description>
      <category>Approvals</category>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Buying courts: what FIP approval does and does not tell you</title>
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      <description>How to compare padel court manufacturers on steel, glass, turf, installation and lead time, and why an FIP approved court is a floor rather than a specification.</description>
      <category>Procurement</category>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>One sport is a risk. Four is a business.</title>
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      <description>Why multi-sport centres combining padel, pickleball, tennis and futsal fill more hours, spread risk and earn more per square metre than single sport venues.</description>
      <category>Design</category>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The operating model decides the return, not the build</title>
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      <description>Bookings, memberships, coaching, competitions, pricing and staffing. Why the way a padel, pickleball, tennis or futsal centre is run matters more to the return than how it was built.</description>
      <category>Operations</category>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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