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Toon Town touts biggest indoor pickleball facility in town

Richard Parkes oversees indoor areas of Toon Town on Talleyrand Avenue, where four new pickleball courts are being added.
Dan Macdonald
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Jacksonville Daily Record
Richard Parkes oversees indoor areas of Toon Town on Talleyrand Avenue, where four new pickleball courts are being added.

Less than two years after the Toon Town entertainment and sports complex in Talleyrand added two indoor pickleball courts, the business is adding four more courts to accommodate players of the fast-growing sport.

Richard Parkes, director of pickleball activities at Toon Town, and J.T. Rhodes, owner of the business that has a pizzeria and games, oversee the complex at 444 Talleyrand Ave., which has been in operation for about seven years.

The building was a storage warehouse before Toon Town and its display of cartoon artwork on the interior and exterior walls set up shop.

Read the rest of this story at the Jacksonville Daily Record, a news partner of WJCT News 89.9.