The Coral Springs Sportsplex Stays As It Is This Fall. Here Is What It Costs to Use

From 6 to 11 every weekday morning, lap lanes at the Coral Springs Aquatic Complex at 12441 Royal Palm Boulevard may need a reservation. On Sundays they never do. On the city's facility page, updated October 15, the pool is running its full posted schedule. The renderings of a 12-court indoor arena on the same site haven't changed any of that.

They won't change it this year either. Two decisions outside the parks budget have to come first. One is the statewide property tax vote on November 3. The other is the commission's own condition that it won't build without an outside investor. Until both are settled, the Sportsplex stays what it already is: a city pool, a tennis and pickleball center, and lighted fields at the west end of Royal Palm Boulevard. You can use all of it at the rates listed below.

Where the Expansion Actually Stands

The project has moved through planning steps all year, but nothing has been built:

1. June 2026. The city selected PBK Architects as the design firm.
2. July 2, 2026. The commission approved work on sponsorship and naming rights.
3. August 5, 2026. Commissioners continued a $1,171,988 contract for PBK's initial design drawings without voting it up or down. Boca Post reported that no construction was authorized and that Mayor Scott Brook said the item would likely return "after November 3rd."
4. September 26 and October 14, 2026. The city held two open houses where residents and sports groups could review the proposed amenities and scope.

The city's project page still gives no construction start or completion date. According to TAPinto Coral Springs, the design contract comes back "on a date the commission has not set."

Until then, the current pool and courts are what you can book.

The Pool on Royal Palm Boulevard

The Aquatic Complex is open 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekends. Hours can shift around events and holidays. Lap swimming is open daily to members and nonmembers. The reservation windows are Monday through Friday from 6 to 11 a.m. and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.

What you pay depends on how often you swim:

The $25 monthly pass is the cheapest way in for anyone swimming more than once a week. Pool memberships carry 7% sales tax, which brings the pass to $26.75. Six adult drop-ins come to $30.66, so the pass pays for itself by the sixth swim. The city notes that membership prices and hours can change.

The 7,500-square-foot fitness center in the same building opens earlier than the pool, at 5:30 a.m. on weekdays. It closes at 9 p.m. on weekdays and runs 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekends. Memberships are sold separately: $96.11 for three months or $343.65 for a year for adults. The pool also runs low-cost classes. Water Aerobics meets Tuesdays and Thursdays, and Stretch-N-Flex meets Mondays and Wednesdays from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Each costs $3 a class or $30 for 12. The city asks swimmers to call for the current class calendar.

Every one of these spaces is in the expansion plan. The proposal includes renovating the existing aquatic complex. Earlier concepts reported by Coral Springs Talk added a 50-meter competition pool, a diving well and indoor spectator seating. For now, the pool you swim in this fall is the one that would be renovated.

Courts at 2575 Sportsplex Drive

The Tennis Center down the road books both tennis and pickleball. Visitors call 954-344-1840 on the day they want to play. Members can reserve up to two days ahead. Sessions run an hour and a half.

Visitor rates go up at 5 p.m.:

• Tennis, adult: $7.23 before 5 p.m., $10.04 after
• Tennis, junior: $5.79 before 5 p.m., $7.23 after
• Pickleball, per court for up to four players: $12.65 before 5 p.m., $19.02 after

Split four ways, a daytime pickleball court costs about $3.16 a person. An evening court costs about $4.76. That's less than a single adult swim at the pool. The annual adult tennis membership is $535.14, the junior is $230.45, and a family of up to four is $765.62. Members pay no court fees and can reserve a pickleball court for free. Memberships also carry 7% sales tax. Before tax, an adult membership equals about 53 evening tennis sessions at the visitor rate, or about 74 daytime sessions.

Instruction runs year-round. Junior classes cover ages 4 to 16, and the Junior Tennis Academy is for advanced players. Adult group classes meet weekly for four weeks, with a new session every five weeks. Pickleball clinics are on the schedule too.

The rest of the park at 2800 Sportsplex Drive has athletic fields, basketball courts, paved trails and a playground. During the school term, fields and courts close at 10 p.m. and the lights go off at 10:15.

The Gym the Plan Is Built Around

The courts and pool explain what's open today. The building driving the expansion is somewhere else. The current Coral Springs Gymnasium sits at 2501 Coral Springs Drive, not at the Sportsplex. At the August meeting, Commissioner Joshua Simmons said that gym "is booked years in advance and turns residents away," according to TAPinto.

The proposal answers that with a 12-court gymnasium on Tom Messenheimer Field. Boca Post reported Parks and Recreation Director Rob Hunter's explanation: the design grew from eight courts to 12 after staff toured comparable facilities and heard that operators regretted building too small. Four of the 12 courts would be set aside for public and community use. That's one more court than the current gym offers. The courts would convert to volleyball, and the plan adds an indoor walking track. TAPinto reported that the walking track came out of resident requests.

Most of the new building would serve tournaments, not daily drop-in play. Coral Springs Talk described the goal as attracting tournaments and high-level competition. A consultant study projects the complex would return $2.2 million a year. At the meeting, residents also raised questions about cost and about traffic at the end of Royal Palm Boulevard.

What Comes Back After November 3

Depending on the source, the price tag on the plan varies. PBK's proposal, included in the August agenda packet, assumes an $82 million construction budget within a $100 million project. In July, the Sun Sentinel described renderings of a building of about 205,000 square feet and a planned budget of about $153 million. It also noted that the budget and timeline were still unsettled. City Manager Catherine Givens said a $200 million figure circulating among residents is wrong.

When the item returns, the vote will be on design only. The delayed contract covers drawings to the 30% milestone, the first of four possible design phases. Givens said the 30% drawings are meant to give residents "something tangible to react to." Commissioner Joseph McHugh, who made the motion to continue, said he wanted the homestead vote results first. He also wanted the item heard at an evening meeting so more residents could speak.

Even after that vote, the commission's earlier direction still applies. "This is not supposed to be 100% on our residents," Givens said, as quoted by TAPinto. The city is talking with potential partners about a public-private partnership and has said it will post the dollar figures on its website. The next public step is the design contract's return to a commission agenda. You'll see it on the city's Sportsplex Optimization page before any work starts on Tom Messenheimer Field.

For more on how city projects are reshaping the west side and downtown, see our Coral Springs neighborhood guide and our breakdown of the downtown rezoning.

Large city projects like the Sportsplex plan tend to come up in conversations about what a Coral Springs home is worth, long before anything gets built. If you'd like to know where your home stands while the plan is on hold, Portia Voss can put together a valuation based on current local sales. Start with a home valuation, and we'll walk you through the numbers.