ACE Pickleball Club Turnersville opens with nine indoor courts, clinics

South Jersey players get a new indoor option next week: ACE Pickleball Club Turnersville will open Saturday, May 16, with nine premium courts inside a 25,000-square-foot space at 5901 NJ-42 in the Washington Plaza shopping center on the Black Horse Pike.

The new club is built for routine court access as much as casual games. ACE’s Turnersville site lists open play, memberships, clinics, flex leagues, private events and glow-in-the-dark pickleball, with member hours set for Monday through Friday from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Open play is available to members and their guests without reservations, and the unlimited membership is listed at $119 plus tax billed every 30 days.

The facility’s design leans into the indoor-player experience. The club features regulation court surfaces, bright lighting intended to reduce glare and a multi-layer court build that adds cushioning for players and the ball. A pro shop stocked with equipment, merchandise, refreshments and snacks turns the location into a full-service stop instead of a simple court rental site, a detail that should matter most to players trying to fit games around work, school and family schedules.

ACE is also pairing the opening with beginner clinics that will cover rules, scoring, gameplay and introductory techniques. That gives the club a foothold in player development at a time when the sport keeps drawing new participants into structured play. Dawn Raffa, who owns the club, built the business after falling in love with pickleball about four years ago for its fitness benefits and social side, a familiar path in a sport increasingly driven by players who turn into operators.

The Turnersville opening lands in the middle of a broader buildout across the region. March 2026 reporting described South Jersey as a pickleball hotspot, with 22 courts planned across Cherry Hill and Turnersville, and earlier coverage noted that the project took one of the last large vacant spaces in Washington Plaza. The momentum is part of a larger national surge: the Sports & Fitness Industry Association says participation rose from about 4.2 million players in 2020 to over 24 million in 2025, and USA Pickleball’s 2025 growth report put the nationwide court-location database at 18,258 locations after adding more than 2,300 new sites last year.

For Turnersville players who need dependable indoor court time, the message is simple. A weather-proof home is opening, and it arrives with enough court inventory, programming and hours to matter quickly.