{"id":76022,"date":"2025-12-08T21:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/76022\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T21:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:00:08","slug":"massive-45000-square-foot-urban-country-club-st-pete-athletic-sets-an-opening-date-in-the-warehouse-arts-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/76022\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive 45,000-square-foot urban country club St. Pete Athletic sets an opening date in the Warehouse Arts District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">After nearly three years of planning, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stpeteathletic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">St. Pete Athletic Paddle &amp; Social<\/a> is officially set to open its doors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The massive 45,000-square-foot sports, dining, and social concept will soft open this Thursday for members at 680 28th Street South inside <a href=\"https:\/\/thefactorystpete.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Factory<\/a>, a 90,000-square-foot arts and culture hub along the Pinellas Trail in the Warehouse Arts District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The public will be welcomed on Friday, December 19th, with a full grand opening on Saturday, January 10th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The club was founded by an experienced group of local entrepreneurs, including Reuben Pressman, Jarrett Sabatini of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intermezzo.co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Intermezzo<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/barmezzo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bar Mezzo<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenbenchbrewing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Green Bench Brewing<\/a> co-owner Nathan Stonecipher, and Graham D\u2019Amico of Major League Pickleball\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/majorleaguepickleball.co\/team\/florida-smash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida Smash<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Among its investors are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ark-invest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ARK Invest<\/a> founder Cathie Wood, <a href=\"https:\/\/neptuneflood.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Neptune Flood<\/a> executives Trevor Burgess and Jon Carlon, professional pickleball players Catherine Parenteau and Travis Rettenmaier, and former Women\u2019s Tennis Association CEO Larry Scott.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">In addition to 14 indoor pickleball courts, St. Pete Athletic contains two padel courts, table tennis, billiards, a restaurant, a coffee shop, three distinct bars, saunas, cold plunges, a gym, and much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After nearly three years of planning, St. Pete Athletic Paddle &amp; Social is officially set to open its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-76022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}