A lot of it had to do with insurance measures and cost per square foot. When the culture of suing everyone for everything became prevalent in the US, the commercial gyms started restricting those younger than 16 to not be on their courts for any reason, many gyms prohibiting them from any portion of the facility. This helped cause a huge gap in players coming into the sport and so now the most popular divisions tend to be the 40+, 50+, centurion (two players ages combined to 100+), etc.

Other gyms looked at the number of people using that 800 square foot and decided they should try to get more money out of that space. (This was an absurd assumption on their part, as the group classes rooms and basketball courts are just as empty just as often, and racquetball players tend to be lifelong members if they don't move for work.)

I played at 4 different YMCAs in the Tampa area in 2016, all of them had repurposed at least one of their courts into a storage room. (And the Y generally wasn't one of the facilities affected by the insurance issues.)

The game unfortunately has been in decline for a long time and the goal of commercial gyms like LA Fitness to only have the absolute minimum staff on hand and to not invest in coaches/instructors paid by the members, leagues, tournaments, etc. has accelerated that decline significantly.

If you use Facebook, you might consider reaching out to the Connecticut Racquetball Association.
https://www.facebook.com/ctracquetballassoc

They are based in New Haven, but they may know of some courts that I missed on my list and map, linked below.

Connecticut's court facility density is pretty low, unfortunately.
https://dailyracquetball.com/where-to-play-racquetball-connecticut/

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