Premium Surface Solutions tops 500 projects across six Western states

Premium Surface Solutions says it has completed more than 500 court, concrete, coatings and landscaping projects across Utah and five neighboring Western states. The Payson, Utah-based builder is leaning into pickleball and padel demand as participation rises nationwide.

Why it matters: - Premium Surface Solutions has crossed a 500-project milestone while demand for outdoor court construction remains strong across the Mountain West. - The company’s work spans pickleball, tennis, basketball and padel courts, plus concrete, coatings and landscaping, so the growth touches both recreational and commercial projects. - National participation trends help explain the timing. The Sports & Fitness Industry Association says 24.3 million Americans played pickleball in 2025, up 22.8% from 2024 and 171.8% over three years. - SFIA named pickleball the fastest-growing sport in the U.S. for the fifth straight year and began tracking padel in 2026, estimating 1.07 million American players in 2025.

What happened: - Premium Surface Solutions said it has completed more than 500 projects across six Western states: Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona and Nevada. - The Payson, Utah-based company builds pickleball, tennis, basketball and padel courts for residential and commercial clients. - The company also provides concrete construction, specialty coatings and landscaping. - Premium Surface Solutions is an American Sports Builders Association member and is licensed, bonded and insured.

The details: - The company splits its work into four service lines: court construction, concrete, coatings and landscaping. - Court construction includes site preparation, concrete work, surfacing, fencing, lighting and equipment installation. - The concrete line covers rebar and post-tension systems for slabs and foundations. - The coatings line includes epoxy flooring, polished concrete, urethane cement and resin systems for residential and commercial floors. - The landscaping line includes hardscape, pavers, retaining walls and turf. - Premium Surface Solutions uses court surfacing systems from SportMaster, Laykold, Nova Sports and Acrytech coatings from AT Sports. - AT Sports is the official pickleball court surface provider to the PPA Tour and Major League Pickleball. - The company publishes an online court designer that lets property owners choose court type, colors and layout before requesting an estimate. - Completed work across all four service lines is posted in project galleries on the company website. - Jacob Cooper, co-founder of Premium Surface Solutions, said the milestone reflects the standard the company keeps on every job site. - Cooper said the company uses its own crews from the first cut of dirt to the final coat and net. - Cooper said that approach is meant to help surfaces hold up to heavy use and local climate conditions.

Between the lines: - The company is tying its growth to regional construction challenges, not just rising sports demand. - Premium Surface Solutions says regulation pickleball courts require a 20-foot by 44-foot playing area inside a minimum 30-foot by 60-foot footprint, which makes many backyard installations full excavation jobs. - The company says freeze-thaw cycles along the Wasatch Front can crack under-engineered slabs within a few seasons. - Premium Surface Solutions says southern Utah and Arizona create different stress points, including expansive desert clays and 50-degree daily temperature swings. - The company says it builds on post-tensioned concrete to keep slabs in compression and resist cracking, and it engineers the subgrade to each site instead of using one specification across the region. - That positioning suggests the company is selling durability and climate-specific engineering as much as finished courts. - Above the slab, Premium Surface Solutions installs CushionX, a cushioned overlay made by AT Sports. - AT Sports says CushionX comes in 4mm, 6mm and 8mm thicknesses across three performance levels for residential, commercial and tournament use. - The manufacturer says CushionX reduces force on knees and joints by up to 15%, carries a five-year product warranty and installs up to three times faster than conventional cushion systems.

What's next: - Premium Surface Solutions is likely to keep pushing into court construction and related site work as pickleball and padel participation continues to expand. - The company’s online designer and project galleries give prospective clients a direct path from planning to estimate and help showcase completed work. - The next benchmark will be whether the company can convert the current regional sports boom into the next 500 projects.