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Photo by Loyd McIntosh
Patrick Denney, a Vestavia Hills resident and developer whose company is purchasing the shopping center that formerly contained a Sprouts grocery store at 1031 Montgomery Highway in Vestavia Hills, Alabama, talks about plans for converting the Sprouts store into a Picklr pickleball complex on Monday, Sept. 23, 2024.
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Photo by Loyd McIntosh
Patrick Denney, a Vestavia Hills resident and developer whose company is purchasing the shopping center that formerly contained a Sprouts grocery store at 1031 Montgomery Highway in Vestavia Hills, Alabama, at left, talks about plans for converting the Sprouts store into a Picklr pickleball complex with Vestavia Hills Councilman George Pierce on Monday, Sept. 23, 2024.
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Photo from The Picklr website
People watch a pickleball match at a location of The Picklr pickleball complex in another state.
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Images courtesy of Altera-AIP Ve
These sketches show the proposed interior of a 10-court indoor pickleball complex called The Picklr in the former location of the Sprouts grocery store in Vestavia Hills, Alabama.
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Images courtesy of Altera-AIP Ve
Sketches of the future exterior for The Picklr, a 10-court pickleball complex in Vestavia Hills, Alabama.
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Images courtesy of Altera-AIP Ve
Sketches of the future exterior for The Picklr, a 10-court pickleball complex in Vestavia Hills, Alabama.
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Images courtesy of Altera-AIP Ve
This sketch shows the proposed layout of 10 indoor pickleball courts in the former Sprouts grocery store in Vestavia Hills, Alabama.
As 2024 draws to a close, we’re highlighting some of the top newsmakers in Vestavia Hills from this year as part of our Newsmaker of the Year series. Today, we’re announcing one of our finalists: Patrick Denney.
Denney, a Vestavia Hills resident and real estate developer, captured headlines in 2024 by reaching a deal to buy the shopping center containing the long-vacant Sprouts grocery store on U.S. 31 and turn it into an indoor pickleball complex.
That’s why he has been selected as a finalist for Vestavia Hills Newsmaker of the Year for 2024.
Denney, the principal owner of Altera-AIP Vestavia, scored a financial incentive deal with the Vestavia Hills City Council in September to make the deal work. The city, eager to fill the vacant spot and meet a need for pickleball space, is providing an initial investment of $300,000 and reinstituting a property and sales tax rebate agreement that was in place for the Sprouts grocery store before it closed in 2018.
Read more about Denney and the pickleball complex here.
