Starting your own P-ball field

dmeyer07 · Post by **dmeyer07** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 8:04 pm

Okay so there is this building for sale by me, and it has been up for sale for a couple years, it was a large cub foods at one time. I want to so badly buy it and turn it into an indoor p-ball club, with alot of fields, etc.. the place is pretty damn big, especially if you were to gut it out and just put in fields..

But how the hell am i going to get funding for this type of a project? Is there anyone i could talk with about starting this, like as a community type thing, i know the boys and girls club is funded like this.. and i'm wonder if there is a possiblity of doing the same here? I know its a long shot but yea if you love p-b as much as me your willing to try anything, and what better a way to live your life than by working at your own p-b field!!!

Have any of you ever started your on p-b field?

Justin from Detroit1 · Wed Jan 04, 2006 8:48 pm

what the hell is p-ball

Bwcad1 · Post by **Bwcad1** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:43 pm

paintball

dmeyer07 · Post by **dmeyer07** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:44 pm

PAINTBALL PAINTBALL PAINTBALL!!!!

Geez

:)

Ryan from Ohio · Post by **Ryan from Ohio** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 3:56 am

Is there really much need or desire to play it in your area?

I would do a survey before putting much time into it.

Afterall, if the community wont support you by buying into it, it just wont work.

audiofreak12 · Post by **audiofreak12** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 7:22 pm

Down here in Redneck ville, there's a billion paintball fields. All of them are outdoor, and consist of things like old car hoods, tires, store signs, fenders and doors off of cars, the car itself, trees and shitty built "blinds" out of scraps from local construction companys. It would probably be cheaper to start out buying a couple acres outside of town and starting your own field. If you get a whole bunch of people playing, it will eventually catch on and you will have a craze going, and maybe then move to a huge indoor building to make a career on it. Thats just me though.

Darthness · Post by **Darthness** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 7:55 pm

Ryan from Ohio wrote: Afterall, if the community wont support you by buying into it, it just wont work.

I doubt the community would fund it... paintball from some people's point of view is going to be a violent game that teaches kids to shoot people, use guns, etc.

dmeyer07 · Post by **dmeyer07** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 7:56 pm

Ryan from Ohio wrote:Is there really much need or desire to play it in your area?

I would do a survey before putting much time into it.

Afterall, if the community wont support you by buying into it, it just wont work.

Well yes and no. For the kids there is, but kids don't have too much money, thus limiting their abilities to play. As for adults in the area, i'd say a few hundred or so out of our 70k city.

I'm going to start an outdoor field first like suggested below, or join with an existing team a friend of mine owns. Some prices on buildings for the indoor one were runing anywhere from 900k (really cheap, for sale 4 years now) to 6 mill. This of course is the building alone, not including the cost of the actual construction of courses, gear, yada yada..

Thanks for the input.

sinister audio · Post by **sinister audio** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 8:01 am

how many SQft is that building?