Formerly known as Jonathan Byrd’s Fieldhouse, the $10 million facility with eight hardwood courts for basketball and volleyball will be called the Pacers Athletic Center.
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The more than 500,000-square-foot facility is expected to accommodate training or play for 31 sports on six turf fields, 12 hard-surface courts and in a baseball training center.
The Fishers Sports Pavilion project was first introduced in April 2015, but construction never started. Now, a modified proposal with a $75 million price tag is heading to Fishers officials for consideration.
In addition, the city said Thursday that the 400-acre sports campus has had a hand in sparking $491 million in projects still in the planning stage or preparing to start construction.
Perkins Global Logistics executive Andy Card and a business partner have opened a multi-sport, youth-sports facility in Westfield and hope to spread the concept to about 16 other communities.
Andy Card, who earlier led the investment group behind the Jonathan Byrd’s Fieldhouse at Grand Park, said the new project would be able to accommodate sports including baseball, basketball and volleyball.
The 4,000-square-foot branch at Jonathan Byrd’s Fieldhouse will offer strength and conditioning coaches, athletic trainers and dietitians to athletes and the general public.
Westfield officials on Thursday confirmed Ken Alexander’s departure but provided no details. He was the first to hold the position of director, overseeing operations at the nearly 400-acre sports campus.
The developer of the $225 million mixed-use project by Grand Park Sports Campus expects the dominoes to begin falling when a planned Cambria hotel gets under way.
