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California-based electric vehicle manufacturer Rivian has submitted plans to the city of Fishers to build a service center adjacent to Indianapolis Metropolitan Airport and near the new Cadillac Formula One headquarters.
Rivian plans to build the 41,700-square-foot service center on 6.3 acres north of East 96th Street and between Willow View Road and Masters Road. On Thursday morning, the Fishers Technical Advisory Committee examined plans for the Rivian facility that would be built by Fishers-based Patch Development LLC. The project will continue moving through the city’s approval process.
The building would be the second Rivian service center in Indiana following a facility that opened in March in Fort Wayne. The closest Rivian service center to central Indiana is in Sharonville, Ohio, in suburban Cincinnati. Expected construction and opening dates for the Fishers service center are not currently available.
In 2009, R.J. Scaringe founded Rivian, which operates a manufacturing plant at a former Mitsubishi factory in Normal, Illinois. At the plant, Rivian produces the R1S electric sport utility vehicle, the R1T pickup truck and its line of commercial delivery vans. E-commerce giant Amazon began rolling out its fleet of Rivian electric delivery vans in 2022, and it now has more than 20,000 on the road in the U.S., according to Amazon’s website.
Last year, Rivian produced 49,476 vehicles and delivered 51,579, the company announced in January. In 2023, Rivian produced 57,232 vehicles and delivered 50,122.
Rivian vehicles can be ordered online, and demo vehicles are available to test at its service centers. The company has 73 service centers in the U.S. in 33 states.
Rivian would be the latest automotive company to place a facility in Fishers near Indianapolis Metropolitan Airport. In 2015, Fishers and the Indianapolis Airport Authority reached a deal to make 211 of the airport’s 445 acres available for development.
The $200 million, 400,000-square-foot Cadillac F1 facility is under construction near Indianapolis Metropolitan Airport, between East 96th Street and East 106th Street and west of Hague Road. Previously, the facility was going to be the headquarters for Zionsville-based Andretti Global and was expected to include a future Andretti racing museum.
The Cadillac F1 team is owned by Detroit-based General Motors Co. and Indianapolis-based TWG Motorsports, a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate holding company TWG Global, which is owned by billionaire co-chairs Mark Walter and Thomas Tull, with headquarters in New York and Chicago. The two-car Cadillac F1 organization received approval earlier in March from FIA and Formula One Management to join the 11-team grid next year.
Veneto, Italy-based Prema Racing, which joined the NTT IndyCar Series this year as a two-car team with Chevrolet, opened a 95,000-square-foot building late last year at the northeast corner of East 96th Street and Willow View Road. The building constructed by Patch Development is Prema’s North American base of operations.
In 2021, Patch announced plans to purchase 24 acres from the Indianapolis Airport Authority along East 96th Street to build 143,000 square feet of flex space in four buildings and move its headquarters from Westfield. Pure Pharmacy LLC, founded in 2018 in Carmel, spent $4.5 million to lease and equip 21,000 square feet in a 30,000-square-foot building it will share with Patch Development. Pure Pharmacy plans to open in Fishers on May 6.
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