​Crews Break Ground On $15M Noblesville Fieldhouse At Finch Creek

NOBLESVILLE, Ind. -- Crews broke ground Friday on the city's long-awaited Noblesville Fieldhouse at Finch Creek — the future home to five hardwood courts, 75,000 square feet of indoor turf and an expensive physical therapy office.

City officials are partnering with Klipsch-Card Athletic Facilities, LLC, to build the new $15 million, 130,000-square-foot sports facility and community center. It's located on Boden Road.

“We love our youth sports in Noblesville, but we’ve heard time and again how they need more room, more courts, more fields and more practice time. And we’ve listened,” Noblesville Mayor John Ditslear said about a year ago when sharing plans for the center. “ ... We can fulfill a need that’s currently not met for local youth sports in our community, and drive greater tourism spending in Hamilton County. I’m excited to do just that with the Noblesville Fieldhouse, and I look forward to the ripple effect that will benefit our local businesses and community partners.”

The fieldhouse will house basketball and volleyball tournaments, competitive cheerleading events, and face-offs for sports growing in popularity, such as futsal and pickleball. Indoor turf fields with batting equipment will make way for baseball and softball practices, and games for soccer, flag football and lacrosse.

The facility will also include an indoor-outdoor concession area, a second-floor mezzanine balcony overlooking the playing surfaces, and high-definition cameras that bring spectators close to the action.

To help fund the project, the city will contribute $300,000 per year of new revenue from the facility’s property taxes and offset by the sale of 10 acres of land for $500,000. Noblesville will also contribute a maximum of $250,000 new dollars annually to supplement new property taxes for the center — a figure that will decrease as the building generates more of its own funding.

No taxpayer dollars — or funds from the 2016 change to the trash ordinance — are funding the fieldhouses construction or operation.

"Ultimately, had the land remained only a city park, there would be zero property tax dollars generated, so this project nearly pays for itself, leaving a private entity to build the $15 million facility," city officials have said.

The fieldhouse will encompass 10 acres within park's 203. It's slated to be complete in the fall.

Project renderings courtesy of the city of Noblesville