Soon, you could quaff a beer after a hard-fought pickleball or shuffleboard match in South Boston

The Boston Licensing Board could determine time whether to fto a projected indoor pickleball emporium recreate the champion of the Catskills oregon a cruise vessel astatine an aged mill gathering astatine Old Colony Avenue and C Street, wherever patrons could play pickleball, shuffleboard oregon cornhole, past discontinue to a cabana to chill down and get thing to drink.

PKL wants to unfastened successful the aged Cole-Hersee Building, utilizing a liquor licence it wants to bargain from the shuttered Fleming's Steakhouse connected Stuart Street.

"It's an alternate to the emblematic barroom and edifice that is prevalent successful South Boston," PKL lawyer Nicholas Zozula said. "There's thing similar it successful South Boston, oregon possibly adjacent successful the metropolis of Boston."

Co-owner Brian Weller (right) would oversee a installation that could big up to 420 radical astatine erstwhile - some radical conscionable walking successful and leagues taking turns connected the projected 5 pickleball courts oregon taking it a spot easier connected the shuffleboard and cornhole courts. Guests could take betwixt picnic tables, lounges and cabanas, Zozula said, adding the cook connected tract volition beryllium engaged preparing everything from play brunches to tacos, level breads and assorted shareable plates.

However, this being Massachusetts and all, Zozula said drinking would beryllium constricted to seating areas - nary sipping a cocktail successful 1 manus and trying to sound your opponent's pucks disconnected the shuffleboard tribunal with the other.

PKL has been operating indoor pickleball arsenic a pop-up successful Somerville's Assembly Road; the South Boston determination would beryllium permanent, astatine slightest arsenic agelong arsenic radical inactive privation to play pickleball indoors.