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Fishers Fuel now
What firm(s) are engaged for the architectural design?
It’s a good move for the Fuel organization and Fishers. The Fuel should see a considerable increase in attendance and support as most of its fan base (hockey families) live in the suburbs. The Fuel represents an inexpensive option to take the family to a professional sporting event.
Funny you say that they are an inexpensive option when their tickets are more expensive than both Indy Eleven and the Indianapolis Indians, two teams that are higher in their respective sporting pyramids.
Also, pour one out for the poor souls who live in suburbs not on the northside who now have much further to go to attend a game.
I agree with Josh. Tickets are very expensive for their league. On the other hand, Josh, for someone in Greenwood, it is actually easier and takes no longer to get to the intersection of 69-116th st than it is to get to the fairgrounds.
Jeff H — there is no way it’s anywhere near comparable for a Greenwood resident to get to I69 and 116th vs. the Fairgrounds. Even today, while the north split is still closed, Google reports it would take 7 minutes longer to get to Fishers. It will probably approach a 15 minute difference next year after the split reopens, and that difference is both ways.
“The new facility will allow us to host more fans”
Having gone to many Fuel games at the Coliseum, seating capacity is not their issue.
Adding hockey fans to the gridlock at I-69 and 116th Street is unlikely to make the evening commute any easier, but maybe the stadium will add some needed parking to the District. Glad to see the Fuel invest more in Fishers but make sure the bus leaves early on game night as the trip from your practice facility to the District at rush hour will take awhile.
Disappointing that they chose to leave Indy but can’t say I blame them. Probably more fans up there, plus better facilities and (probably) cheaper parking. Not sure an arena that big is really necessary though. Maybe they have designs on moving up to the AHL?
I believe I heard/read that moving up to the AHL was part of their original plans when they came to town. Perhaps you are spot on here, Chris. I hope this development takes place.
Sorry to see them leave the fair grounds and Indy.
Besides IKEA this might be the second reason to drive to Fishers.
What? You don’t like crappy pizza?
Wow this is great news. Love going to games but absolutely hate going to the fairgrounds.
I actually really enjoyed going to the fairgrounds if nothing else for the nostalgic feel but yet updated twist they’ve given the facility. It’s such an iconic building I’m sad to see them leave it.
That being said I’m sure the new facility will be amazing.
The Coliseum is fine, I just think the fairgrounds in general are a dump. A depressing place to visit, especially in the winter.
Once again im impressed with the continuous announcements of developments in Fishers. I also notice that people from here are always seeing things that may be negative about any development in Indiana. If this were any other major city, the locals seem to embrace projects like this. Concerns about traffic and other insignificant factors, never materialize and are non factors. Fishers and Carmel have already become major suburb cities on the move and traffic as well as other concerns should be expected for a growing metro. It just comes with the territory folks.
Agree. The traffic won’t be a problem…
The typical NIMBY complaints about traffic usually centers around things like new subdivisions with 100s of homes. Obviously adding the time-distributed vehicles from 100s of homes never amounts to any noticeable change on roads that carry tens of thousands of cars a day.
That said, adding an 8500 seat venue where people will be coming and going during relatively compressed periods of time will absolutely be noticeable. The Fairgrounds is situated on monster streets and set up to handle far larger volumes of traffic than the Fuel generate. I hope Fishers is properly planning for this.
It would be nice if the state got involved and built an actual regional transportation system that included light rail. They own significant right-of-way throughout the Indy metro and could build a state-of-the-art system connecting the disconnected communities. Hop on at a downtown stop and get off at a new Fishers District stop.
The traffic will ALWAYS be a problem. Hockey is probably more of a suburban oriented sport. In the old days when the Fairgrounds WERE the suburbs of Indy it might have worked better. Being a Miami of Ohio grad with a very strong hockey following, it was always fair to say that urban areas seem to attract fewer fans than say basketball.
Some people seem to think that 8500 might be too big. I think it might be too small. At the rate Fishers is growing, a seating capacity of around 10,000 might be better. Take this from an architect that has participated in the design of several similar facilities.
Traffic wont be a problem? 242 garden homes, 250 apartments, 140,000sf retail & office, 8,500 seat arena ADDED to what’s already there at The District and IKEA, high density housing at The Mark and Highpoint Ridge and 2 new 6-storey hotels. All this traffic will converge on the 116th & 106th street I-69 exits which are overloaded now. Traffic ALREADY IS a big problem in Fishers. There just aren’t enough large feeder roads through town. Yes, we are next to I-69, but it is already clogged up at rush hours and most of the day. They’ve widened it to 12 lanes and there’s little room left for future expansion. One commenter suggested a light rail mass transit solution. I agree this would go a long way towards solving this problem, but that ship has already sailed when the Nickle Plate right of way was converted to a bike path. The mass transit solution is just too expensive at this point in history and in the current economy. The sad irony of all this is the City of Fishers will almost certainly waive the road impact fees for this project, like they do for almost every other Public Private Partnership project in town. An economist once said about socialism that it doesn’t work because eventually you run out of other people’s money. When will the free-spending politicians in Fishers and Hamilton County come face-to-face with that reality?