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Your Ice Cream Is Serv’d

Serv, the pickleball and chill complex in Overland Park is welcoming its newest food vendor, Sugar Bomb Ice Cream, just in time for the summer.

• Servin’ It Up: Serv at 90th and Metcalf was conceived in 2020 by local creative restaurateur Rachel Kennedy-Cuevas who partnered together with great food, a fun atmosphere, and most importantly - pickleball.

• Sugar Bomb: Sugar Bomb pairs together baked treats from Kate Smith Soiree and ice cream from the Golden Scoop to bring delicious creations like the Pebble’s Breakfast, a sweet milk and cereal flavor sure to remind you of childhood.

• In the Kitchen: Sugar Bomb is only the latest in food options that Serv has to offer. Other options include a coffee shop, burgers from Slammers, Dink’s pizza and wings, Power Plant’s vegan eats, Tacodile, and Slow Burn BBQ.

Since opening in February, Serv has become the ultimate place for Johnson County residents to enjoy casual afternoons playing pickleball. If you’d like to reserve a court, you can do that here!

Events

Esports Event Comes to KC

Kansas City will be hosting an Esports event, Midwest Fest, at LEVELUP Arena in the West Bottoms this weekend June 16th & 17th.

• Esports?: Esports or “internet sports” are sports where competitors will compete head to head in video games. Currently, esports is one of the fastest-growing sports in the country with some gamers receiving huge payouts.

• Midwest Fest: Midwest Fest is an esports event featuring 3 tournaments where players will be able to play either Rocket League, Call of Duty Modern Warfare, or Apex Legends, all for a cash prize of $1000 each.

• Growth of Esports: In 2022, esports attracted an estimated 240 million online spectators worldwide. From that number, esports tournament events also can have up to thousands that will attend the in-person sessions.

   

Teams can still signup on their website with the event running from 11 am to 8 pm each day.

Real Estate

The T-Shotz Pickle

T-Shotz, the Top Golf-style driving range in the northland, is preparing to add and operate pickleball courts to their campus at the Metro North Crossing development site.

• T-Shotz: T-Shotz is an interactive driving range in North Kansas City at the intersection of 169 Highway and Barry Road. It’s part of a recent development of the Metro North Crossing Campus which aimed to rival Zona Rosa for supremacy of being the shopping and living hub of NKC.

• Pickleball Courts: The addition of the 4 pickleball courts, taking the place of about 50 parking spots, comes on the heels of recent successes in the sports development industry of catering to the burgeoning sport.

• NKC Development: Metro North Crossing isn’t stopping with pickleball. The outdoor mall will soon add a 15,000-square-foot retail building to add to its already growing list of businesses featuring Hotworx, Woodstone, and Third Street Social.

After the plans were announced earlier this week, hopes are high that the project will be completed in the next 12 months.

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• ^🖼️Artists’ Bloch: The Nelson-Atkins is offering their latest exhibit which focuses on impressionism.

• 🥩Where’s the Beef?: Beef-A-Roo will open its first location in Kansas in Overland Park this weekend.

• 💻Zero Reddit Thirty: The Kansas City Reddit page went dark amid protests over Reddit’s pricing changes for third-party developers.