We learned this business one piece at a time.
It started with Andres “Tito” Moreno. Tito played padel for the U.S. team as a junior and again as an adult, and he came home from every trip thinking the same thing: people here would love this game if they ever got the chance to play it.
Grant, Mason and Tito met at Texas A&M University. Tito put a racquet in our hands and that was that. He founded AMET in 2023, and the two of us joined him not long after.
None of us had built a padel facility before. Almost nobody in the country had. So we worked it out one piece at a time: how a court actually gets shipped and put together, what the slab underneath it has to be, which permits a city is going to ask for, what glass and lighting really cost, how you hire for a club and fill it once the doors open. Every project taught us something the last one hadn’t.
For a long stretch, most people we called had never heard of padel. We kept at it because we were sure it was going to be one of the biggest racquet sports in the world, and we wanted to be the ones who built it here.
Two years on, that adds up to 36 courts installed, six of them developed into full facilities, and two national firsts. The first padel court at a school in the United States, at St. Stephen’s Episcopal in Austin. And the largest indoor padel club in the country, Urban Padel in Doral, Florida.
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