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Exclusive: $100M River Oaks condo project to include 45,000-square-foot indoor pickleball club

By Marissa Luck,
Staff Writer
Feb 26, 2026

A planned $100 million boutique condo tower in River Oaks aims to push Houston’s luxury market further into the realm of wellness living, pairing 31 high-end residences with an onsite 45,000-square-foot indoor pickleball club and spa-like features built directly into each unit.

Called Ace and Ivy, the proposed 11-story tower represents one of the most intensive efforts yet to integrate a wellness-forward focus into a high-end condominium community in Houston. The 400,000-square-foot mixed-use project enters an increasingly competitive luxury condo pipeline stretching from The Woodlands to Uptown, where developers are escalating amenities to capture a limited pool of high-end buyers.

With condo pricing starting at $2.8 million, Ace and Ivy residences will be part of a 1.7-acre development at 3100 West Alabama Street. About 10,000 square feet of wellness-focused retail space is also planned by real estate firm Everlight Group.

Developer Winson Ho did not originally set out to build a mixed-use project with a residential tower. After discovering pickleball two years ago, Ho was frustrated that there wasn’t an indoor pickleball club near his home in River Oaks, so he set out to build one himself.

Over time, though, his idea evolved into a broader mixed-use project, anchored by community filled with residents sharing a passion for pickleball and wellness.

Ace and Ivy is the first project for real estate firm Everlight Group, but Ho envisions replicating the concept elsewhere if it proves to be successful in Houston.

"I'm not developing real estate because I love real estate. I'm developing real estate as a means to an end, and the end is to create a center of community,” said Ho, founder and CEO of Everlight Group.