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Orlando issues $22.9 million permit at the USTA campus that will host the NCAA tennis championships

Orlando, Florida issued a $22.9 million permit Nov. 2 for a new player development facility at the USTA National Campus in Lake Nona, where the NCAA's Division I team tennis championships move for 10 years starting in 2028.

By Morningline Research · November 12, 2026

Orlando, Florida has issued a building permit for a "new player development facility" at the USTA National Campus in Lake Nona. The permit for 10000 USTA Blvd. was issued Nov. 2 with a reported value of $22.9 million.

It's the first price we've seen on the work the U.S. Tennis Association is doing to get the campus ready for the NCAA. Starting in 2028, the NCAA's Division I men's and women's team championships will be played there every year through 2037.

From city review to building permit

Timeline of the USTA National Campus, from its 2017 opening to the Nov. 2, 2026 building permit
Graphic: Morningline Research, from the city building permit and the reporting linked in this story.

The permit is short. It's filed as a new building, its work line reads "New building: NEW PLAYER DEVELOPMENT FACILITY," and it's the only permit we hold at the address. Permit values are estimates filed with the city, not contract amounts.

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The plans behind it cleared the city's Development Review Committee in January, GrowthSpotter reported. The first phase is an 80,000-square-foot addition on the south side of the campus's existing indoor building. It adds six indoor courts with spectator seating, plus offices, meeting rooms, classrooms, gyms and strength and conditioning space. Six outdoor hard courts come out to make room.

GrowthSpotter's photo caption sums up the scale: the existing indoor courts and player development facilities "will double in size."

The permit and the coverage describe the work a little differently. The reporting calls it an expansion of the existing indoor facility, while the permit is filed as a new building. The permit doesn't list square footage, so we can't say from the record alone whether it covers the whole 80,000-square-foot addition.

A second phase, nine more acres

The second phase brings eight new hard courts, a longer service drive, more paved parking, a new sprint track and grass overflow parking to be used four to six times a year, according to GrowthSpotter. Together the two phases add nine acres to the campus.

When it's done, the campus will have 12 outdoor competition courts, 20 practice courts and 12 indoor courts in one place. The 12 competition courts are also getting permanent shade.

"Our goal is to complete this expansion by the end of 2027," Joe Wilkerson, the campus's general manager, told GrowthSpotter. That leaves a few months before the first championships in spring 2028.

Why the NCAA is coming

The deal goes back to December 2024. The USTA announced that the campus had won a 10-year bid to host the Division I team championships, the first of 10 straight years running from 2028 to 2037. The NCAA had already picked Orlando for 2028, and the new deal "tacks on nine additional years," the Associated Press reported.

Part of the bid was a building promise. The USTA said it would add six indoor courts, bringing the campus to 12, with better viewing on all of them, along with shade at the outdoor competition courts and new amenities for the athletes. "Supporting college tennis is a growing priority for the USTA," Lew Sherr, the association's CEO, said in the announcement.

The campus isn't new to the event. The USTA and UCF jointly hosted the Division I championships there in 2019, 2021 and 2023, according to GrowthSpotter.

Ten years after the first build

A tennis ball printed with the USTA National Campus logo resting on a racket on a blue hard court
A tennis ball printed with the USTA National Campus logo, on a blue hard court. Photo: Matthew Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped).

The first round of construction on this site broke ground in April 2015 on a $60 million budget, Building Design + Construction reported at the time. It replaced the association's smaller training center in Boca Raton.

The campus opened in January 2017 with 100 courts on 64 acres in Lake Nona, the USTA said when it debuted.

With the permit issued, the next milestone is USTA's own: finish by the end of 2027, then welcome the first NCAA teams in the spring of 2028.

See Orlando's latest permit numbers, updated weekly.

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