Pickleball center planned for Natick Mall at closed Neiman Marcus store

NATICK - Pickleball is the hottest new sport and next year you might be able to play a game while shopping at the mall.

Developer Bulfinch and fitness center operator Bosse Sports want to turn the old Neiman Marcus store at the Natick Mall into a massive pickleball center.

The Neiman Marcus store at the Natick Mall on September 5, 2007. Ted Fitzgerald/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images

It will have 21 courts, a training center, a restaurant and two bars.

They hope to open the new facility by next fall.

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