Life Time opens 28-court North Shore pickleball club in Northbrook
Life Time’s North Shore club opens with 28 courts, indoor stadium seating and a footprint built to pull tournament traffic into Northbrook.
Life Time’s new North Shore club in Northbrook opens with 28 pickleball courts across 114,000 square feet, a scale that puts it in tournament-range territory from the start. The club sits on more than 17 acres at 1300 Techny Road and splits its court count between 18 indoor courts and 10 outdoor courts, with indoor stadium-style seating built in for tournaments and spectators.
That court mix is what makes the project more than a standard fitness-club add-on. Life Time is positioning North Shore as a full health-and-wellness destination, with pickleball as the anchor rather than a side amenity, and the layout gives traveling players the kind of setup that can support clinics, brackets and multi-day play without feeling cramped. For anyone booking a pickleball trip, the appeal is obvious: weather-proof indoor inventory, outdoor courts when conditions cooperate and room for a crowd when the action gets serious.
The club also deepens Life Time’s Chicago footprint in a way that matters for members moving around the metro. North Shore is the sixth Life Time opening in the Chicago area in five years and the 16th club in the market, with access extending across the company’s local network so members can train, play and recover at multiple locations. That cross-club access is part of the draw for players who want more than a single-court visit; it turns the North Shore opening into a base, not just a stop.
On the programming side, Life Time says the club will serve beginners through competitive players. Intro-to-pickleball courses sit alongside programming for juniors, active-aging players and players grouped by DUPR rating bands, which points to a structured pathway from first lesson to league-level play. That kind of ladder is exactly what keeps a destination club busy beyond the ribbon-cutting phase, because it gives guests a reason to stay on property for instruction, match play and recovery instead of treating the courts as a one-off drop-in.
The company is already signaling that Chicago remains a growth market, with another club underway in Naperville for early 2027. For North Shore, the 28-court build, indoor-outdoor split and stadium seating make the case plainly: this is a club designed to handle serious pickleball volume, not just a casual neighborhood crowd.
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