The old Ocean Breeze golf course in Boca Teeca has been fenced off for years. When a large share of it opens to the public on November 18, the first thing anyone can do there without paying for a pass is sit down for lunch.
That's the date Boca Paddle by CityPickle holds its grand opening on the North Park property, according to the club's October 21 announcement. Inside the club is Farmer's Kitchen by Farmer's Table, a full-service restaurant and bar that's open to the public with no membership or day pass required. The five-plus miles of trails, the dog park and the playground on the east side of the park don't have a completion date yet. For the near future, North Park is a racquet club and a restaurant, plus one small free attraction that has already been open for more than a year.
What You Can Use on the Property Today
The Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District opened the North Park Traffic Garden on old tennis-court pavement on Jeffery Street, west of NW 2nd Avenue. It's a set of painted miniature streets with child-sized traffic signs where kids can practice bike and road safety with no cars around. Boca Magazine reported that it's free and that motorized bikes, boards and vehicles aren't allowed.
Accounts differ on when it opened. TAPinto reported that it was open to the public by late July 2025. The District describes an August soft opening followed by a ribbon-cutting on September 4, 2025. Either way, it has been the only public part of North Park for more than a year. Boca Paddle will be the second, and much larger, piece.
November 18 and the Four Ways Through the Door
Boca Paddle is a 100,000-square-foot club with 25 courts: 19 pickleball courts, including a stadium court, and six padel courts. Sixteen courts are climate-controlled indoors. The other nine are outdoors, five under canopies and four uncovered. The Palm Beach Post reported that the facility cost $20 million and that its stadium court seats 1,000. The developers bill it as Florida's largest indoor pickleball and padel facility. It will also be the official home of Major League Pickleball's Palm Beach Royals.
The club lists its address as 50 W. Jeffery St., with access from Federal Highway and I-95. The Palm Beach Post places it at West Jeffery Street and North Dixie Highway, north of Yamato Road.
The club is private, but there are four ways in, and each one gets you something different. Two of them cost nothing at the door.
| Way in | Cost | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Farmer's Kitchen walk-in | No pass required | The restaurant and bar |
| Free guest of a member | $0 entry, once every 60 days per person | Entry, with courts and programming at member rates |
| Day pass | $35 for Boca Raton residents with proof of residence, $40 for everyone else | Court booking during all available hours, plus intro clinics at member rates |
| Membership | From $49, $149 or $299 per month for individual Community, Standard and Plus tiers | Booking priority and club benefits, with court time billed separately |
The membership row is the one most likely to surprise people. Boca Post's reading of the club FAQ found that a membership doesn't buy court time. Boca Paddle is pay-to-play at member rates, and court rentals, open play, clinics and leagues are all charged separately. The Plus tier comes with 12 open play passes a month, and everything else is billed at the member rate. There's no initiation fee, and membership is planned to be capped at 1,000 members through 2026. Billing starts on opening day, so an annual membership runs a full year from November 18.
Beyond the courts, the club lists locker rooms with showers, saunas, cold plunge pools, a warm-up and recovery area called The Zone with physical therapy services, a pro shop, and co-working space with phone booths. Before the opening, the club is running private hard-hat tours by appointment, booked through a waiting list on its Picktime page.
Co-founder Brian Levine, a Boca Raton resident, gave the Palm Beach Post the reasoning behind the scale. "Boca Raton is the pickleball capital of the world," he said, pointing out that seven of the world's top-ranked players live in the city.
Why the Club Arrived Before the Trails
The order in which North Park is opening makes sense once you look at what the District bought. It purchased the defunct Ocean Breeze course in 2018. The Boca Raton Tribune describes the property as 212 acres and cites a $24 million purchase figure. The District bought the east side outright. The City held the deed to the west side against a bond, which the District paid off nearly seven years early in 2025. The District said that payoff freed it to start designing the west side.
The golf years left two jobs to finish before any trail can open. Code requires crews to remove invasive trees and plants from the east side, and that work has started. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection will also help make sure soil contaminated by chemicals during the golf-course era is mitigated. The District has also committed the whole project to Sustainable SITES Initiative standards for environmental design.
Boca Paddle sits on a separate track. The Palm Beach Post describes it as a public-private partnership among the District, Boca Raton entrepreneurs Levine, Mitchell Robbins and Stewart Davis, CityPickle, Butters Construction, Life Time, Hyperspace Ventures, and pro players including Anna Bright and Ben Johns. The District hasn't published the financial terms between itself and the operator.
At the September 3 groundbreaking, District Chair Bob Rollins told the gathering, "It means the end of the beginning, as we now have started putting our plans in place here with development."
What Comes Next, in Order of Readiness
Three more pieces are planned for the property. Here they are from closest to furthest out.
- The skatepark and pump track. On September 3, 2026, the Boca Raton Planning and Zoning Board voted 7-0 to approve a 1.43-acre site that includes a pump track, skate bowls, a snake run, a street course and two shade structures. That vote was the City's final land-use action, so the project doesn't go to City Council. The District awarded the bid to American Ramp Company, and no construction date has been set. The District's project page shows it in Public Works review, with City reviews and permits still to finish before construction can start.
- The 70-acre east side. Butters Construction is building this phase. The plan calls for more than five miles of walking and riding trails, a dog park, a playground, exercise equipment along some of the trails, and more than 1,000 native trees. The District hasn't announced a cost or a completion date.
- The west side. It has a conceptual plan rather than a fixed master plan. The District's executive director has described golf and an aquatics facility as long-discussed ideas for this side. Earlier planning material also listed a field house as a possibility.
That means the trails, dog park and playground have broken ground but have no opening date. The skatepark has its approval but no permits yet. On November 18, Farmer's Kitchen opens to anyone who walks in, and a $35 day pass lets a Boca Raton resident book courts at any available hour.
North Park sits in our home stretch of coastal South Florida, and we follow it closely. If you're weighing how a new park, a 25-court club or a future skatepark could shape a street near Boca Teeca, Mari Juliette can walk you through the blocks around Jeffery Street and what each piece of the park could mean for you. Contact Us.
