New indoor sports facility opens in St. Albert [Video]

A new sports recreation facility held a soft opening on Sunday.

Raise Athletics, located on Richardson Drive in St. Albert, is a 170,000 sq. ft. indoor sporting facility that operators say is among the largest in Canada.

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Safina Nanji, the director of operations and marketing communications for Raise Athletics, told CTV News Edmonton during the launch on Sunday how opening the doors was a special moment for her family.

“My family’s been wanting to open for many years. My dad tried to open something like this in 1993, (but) it didn’t pan out at the time,” Nanji said.

The facility boasts 22 standard pickleball courts using Laykold, the same court surface material used in the US Open, six basketball courts, six volleyball courts, four badminton courts that can couple up as pickleball courts, 12,000 sq. …