IBJ’s Mickey Shuey discusses the logistics of being the home base for a World Cup team and what teams want. Plus, the lowdown on the push for a downtown Indy casino.
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The Westfield facility will have 12 courts—including two championship-sized courts—a pro shop, a private community and event room, and a patio for outdoor events.
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A master plan released Monday shows Grand Park District would cover an area of about 152 acres north and south of 186th Street.
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Westfield’s Grand Park Sports Campus is one of the busiest sports facilities in the country in the spring and summer, but the city needs to find ways to turn its crown jewel into a year-round tourism destination, city leaders say.
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An apartment complex with a retail component could be coming to the Grand Park District in Westfield, along with a car racing museum, Ed Carpenter Racing’s headquarters and a Java House cafe.
The Indianapolis Capitols are part of the new Continental Football League, a developmental professional outdoor league that plans to begin playing games this summer.
Skylake is scheduled to open this summer, starting with its water attractions that include a 6-acre manmade lake, water slides, cabanas and a floating obstacle course. Other components like its high ropes course and a year-round tubing hill are expected to roll out later.
Westfield officials expect the proposed ice hockey arena to help turn the Grand Park area into a year-round hub of entertainment and recreational activity that would thrive outside of the soccer and baseball seasons.
The third annual NFL Flag Championships are expected to draw more than 350 youth flag football teams and thousands of spectators to Westfield.
The team, which will return to Grand Park for the final time this summer, has held training camp in Westfield since 2018–except for in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The authorized facilities—some of which might host multiple teams—will serve as a home-away-from-home of sorts during the World Cup’s initial, group-competition stage,
TreeRunner Adventure Parks plans to operate an aerial adventure park on a five-acre wooded area at the center of Grand Park.
The competition between Anthony Richardson and Daniel Jones began in earnest at Indy’s first training camp practice Wednesday at Grand Park in Westfield.
Sports tourism projects have popped up all over the state—from Columbus and Noblesville to Hammond and Newton County. But the recent push to make Indiana a go-to destination for youth sport competitions started, arguably, in Westfield.
The sports complex, which is set to embark on a major entertainment and business district, now generates enough tax-increment-financing revenue to fully cover its debt payments.
Grand Park Sports & Entertainment, a joint venture between Westfield-based Bullpen Ventures LLC and Indianapolis-based Indy Sports and Entertainment, will take over the 10-year-old sports campus under the 30-year agreement.
Westfield Mayor Scott Willis said Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett’s decision to pursue a Major League Soccer franchise without involvement from the Indy Eleven “sent shockwaves through Westfield.”
Under the partnership that includes Keystone Group and Indy Eleven, future plans for Grand Park include a mix of restaurants, hotels, public spaces, a mixed-use complex with residential, office and retail spaces, and a state-of-the-art sports facility.
The city used $30,000 from its Grand Park promotional fund for the documentary called “We Field Champions” that was produced by Noblesville-based filmmaker Cameron Sprinkle.
The inaugural APP Collegiate Championships and Midwest Open will take place at the 378,000-square-foot Grand Park Events Center.
The process to select a new operator or manager of the 400-acre sports campus was discussed Monday night at a meeting between the Westfield City Council and Redevelopment Commission.
Plans for Crate Escapes include a 10,000-square-foot indoor area and a two-acre outdoor space where dogs can run and play while their humans enjoy food, drinks, games and the sight of canines romping around.
Mayor Andy Cook said the commission is a natural progression of the city’s sports tourism industry, which has been built around Grand Park Sports Campus.
The 400-acre sports campus could still get a new operator or manager once a review committee recommends a company to the Westfield Redevelopment Commission and city council.
