Players Sports Center opens in Logan Square with six indoor sand volleyball courts

A 51,000-square-foot indoor sports complex with six sand volleyball courts opened in mid-September at 2367 W. Logan Blvd. in Logan Square, in the building that housed the Windy City Fieldhouse for more than 25 years. https://windycitymagazine.com/business/players-sports-center/ opened the week of September 14, according to a September 25 report from Block Club Chicago, and the company’s own site now lists the facility as open with leagues, rentals and youth programs running.

The project is a partnership between Players Sport and Social, the adult recreational league operator, and Clear Skies Hospitality, the company behind the SPF pickleball clubs. The two companies announced the plan in a June 24, 2026 news release that called the venue the first collaboration between them.

Key facts at a glance

Here is what is confirmed about the new facility as of September 28.

• The address is 2367 W. Logan Blvd., on Logan Boulevard just east of Western Avenue beside the Kennedy Expressway, in the 60647 ZIP code.
• The building has six indoor sand volleyball courts, six indoor hard-court volleyball courts, two basketball courts built to Illinois High School Association dimensions, two pickleball courts and an indoor turf field for soccer, per the company’s site.
• Block Club reports the center is open 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. Thursday through Sunday and 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Wednesday.
• Players Beach Bar, the in-house cafe and bar, runs its kitchen from 5 to 9 p.m. and pours drinks during all open hours, according to the company’s site.
• Sand and pickleball courts can be booked online by the hour; hard courts, the turf field and party rooms are rented by request.

What happened to the Windy City Fieldhouse

The building has been a fixture on this stretch of Logan Boulevard for decades. Windy City Fieldhouse ran youth and adult sports there for more than 25 years before closing in 2023, Block Club reported. For the next two years the hall operated as the Exhibition Hub Art Center, a venue for traveling immersive art shows. Converting it back to sports meant repainting the black-box interior, laying new floors, installing new lighting and courts, and commissioning a large mural of a beach volleyball player by Chicago artist Brendan Cooney.

The sand was the biggest job. Dave Reid, CEO of Players Sport and Social, told Block Club that 40 dump-truck loads of sand from Ottawa, Illinois, were brought in for the beach courts, and that some trucks drove straight into the building. Block Club describes indoor beach volleyball as a first for the building and the surrounding area.

Reid’s company has run adult recreational leagues in Chicago for years without owning a home facility. Block Club reports the group serves about 75,000 players a year across leagues, tournaments and camps, and had previously rented time at the old fieldhouse, Chicago Park District buildings and other private gyms. The new center gives https://windycitymagazine.com/business/players-sport-and-social-group/ a permanent base, and the company’s site now lists indoor volleyball, sand volleyball, basketball, pickleball and indoor soccer leagues as playing.

Who is running the food and drink

Clear Skies Hospitality, the other partner, is the parent company of https://windycitymagazine.com/business/spf-lincoln-park/, the pickleball and social club at 2121 N. Clybourn Ave. in Lincoln Park, and a second SPF location at 3800 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Old Irving Park. The June release said Clear Skies also planned a West Loop location and had bought a pickleball venue in New Orleans earlier in 2026.

Clear Skies operates Players Beach Bar inside the new center. The menu comes from the chef team behind https://windycitymagazine.com/business/honey-butter-fried-chicken/ in Avondale, which also runs the Honey Butter Beach Club food program at SPF Lincoln Park, according to Block Club. Early items include stadium nachos and house-made hummus, with beer, seltzers and non-alcoholic drinks at the bar. Rich Green, co-founder of Clear Skies, said in the June release that pickleball taught the company people want a place to gather as much as a place to play.

What it costs to play

The company posts public rental rates on its site, and the numbers give a sense of how the place is priced. All figures are per hour and come from the Players Sports Center rentals page.

• Sand volleyball courts rent for $95 an hour at peak times and $65 an hour off peak.
• Pickleball courts rent for $70 an hour at peak times and $45 an hour off peak.
• Peak hours are 4 to 9 p.m. on weekdays, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays and 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Sundays.
• A $50-a-month Spike Club membership takes $10 an hour off peak bookings and $5 an hour off non-peak bookings, and lets members reserve courts 15 days out instead of the public window of eight days.
• Hard courts, the turf field, party rooms and full-building buyouts are priced by request through the site’s rental form.

Adult league fees are set through Players Sport and Social’s registration system rather than the center’s site, so prices vary by sport and season.

Youth programs and what comes next

LVL Basketball, a Chicago youth basketball program, is the anchor youth tenant, per both the June release and the company’s site, and the center says several other Chicago youth clubs will host clinics and practices there. The center’s own house clinics, camps and leagues for ages 5 to 17 are listed as being scheduled now, and Block Club reports more programming will roll out in October. Owners also told Block Club they want the space to host exhibition matches and give nearby schools a place to play.

One detail has changed since the announcement. The June release said the center would launch with daily hours of 3 to 11 p.m. and expand as demand grew; the hours Block Club reported at the opening are already longer, with weekend mornings starting at 6 a.m. The company’s site does not publish a phone number, and event and general questions go through an email address and interest form listed on its contact page.

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