Onelife Fitness adds indoor pickleball courts to $19 million Hoover club

Onelife Fitness unveiled a $19 million Hoover flagship on June 25, and the biggest change for local pickleball players is indoor court space at 5569 Grove Blvd. The 65,000-square-foot club is scheduled to break ground in October 2026, open in 2027 and create 100 jobs as Onelife’s third Birmingham-area location.

The company says the Hoover site will include indoor pickleball courts, the first of their kind at any Onelife Fitness location. It is not being built as a stand-alone racquet facility, though. The same project also centers a dedicated Reformer Pilates studio and wraps pickleball into a premium club package with an indoor saltwater pool, sauna, cold plunge and recovery rooms. Onelife’s pickleball program elsewhere includes private lessons for beginners, classes, leagues for all ages and singles and doubles play, with players directed through the tennis director page for more information.

That matters in Hoover because the city already has a functioning but crowded play map. Hoover’s official facilities page lists 3 indoor pickleball courts at the Hoover Recreation Center and 6 pickleball courts at the Simmons Tennis Court facility, while Pickleheads lists Birmingham with 19 pickleball locations and 87 courts, including 33 indoor courts at 7 sites. The Onelife addition does not just duplicate what exists; it adds another controlled indoor option in a metro where heat, rain and prime-time scheduling can decide who gets on court.

The players who stand to gain most are beginners, league regulars and adults who need dependable evening or weekend court time. Onelife’s join platform sells memberships by club and plan, with monthly dues and a one-time enrollment fee set through the online process, which makes the Hoover club look less like a public-court supplement and more like a premium access model that happens to include pickleball.