last year, university was not allowed to take up space in an office building. reporter: thanks to new city zoning laws that s now possible. along with seven new types of commercial businesses like animal boarding, hydroponic farms and pickle ball. it s already happening in south jersey. this 22,000 square foot pickle ball facility was a vacant burlington coat factory in a strip maul. recent vacate ncy at record hig. are there options like this on the market? yeah, more opportunity than we thought there would be in the market. reporter: pickle ball sport is the fastest growing sport in america, does that mean the sport needs to find places to play quickly? the greatest threat to pickle ball is the lack of facility. reporter: vanessa yurkevich, cnn, egg harbor township, new
last year, a university was not allowed to take upspace in an office building. reporter: thanks to new city zoning laws, that s now possible, along with seven new types of commercial businesses, like animal boarding, hydroponic farms and pickleball. it s already happening in south jersey. this 22,000 square foot pickleball facility was a vacant burlington coat factory in a strip mall. regional mall vacancy is at a record high. were there a lot of options like this on the market? yeah, i think we had more opportunity than we thought there would be in the market. reporter: pickleball is the fastest-growing support in america. so does that mean that the sport needs to find places to play quickly? the greatest threat to the growth of pickleball is the lack of facility. reporter: vanessai i i ier yurkevich, cnn.
allowed to take up space in an office building. reporter: thanks to new city zoning laws, that s possible with seven new types of commercial businesses like animal boarding, hydroponic farms and pickleball. it s already happening in south jersey. this 22,000 square foot pickleball facility was a vacant burlington coat factory in a strip mall. regional mall vacancy is at a record high. were there a lot of options like had on the market? yeah. i think we had more opportunity than we thought there would be in the market. reporter: pickleball is the fastest growing sport in america. that does that mean they need to find places to play quickly? the greatest threat to the growth of pickleball is the lack of facilities. reporter: vanessa yurkevich, cnn. ahead on cnn newsroom, the latest on the investigation into
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