A handful of baby boomers are upset today over plans to develop a pickleball court in Winnipeg’s Henteleff Park. Strangely, concerns over the apartment building they plan to build with it are comparatively hushed.
The Progressive Real Estate Group, whose plans for this area were to develop townhouses, has asked for amendments to its original plans to build a four-storey residential complex instead. With pickleball courts.
And the news is filled with sounds of “Pick, pick, pick,” ping-ponging between the ears of residents, defying the growl of an old and rusty backhoe.
Marcus Chambers, the area’s city councillor and former board member of the Henteleff Park Foundation, says that the zoning amendments will be tabled before the Riel Community Committee on January 7—where the developer plans to explain themselves.
Meanwhile, the ordeal has some wondering what pickleball ever did to the Henteleff Park Foundation, and whether I could do it, too.
Winnipegged 
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