Indiana Preps | The State

The city of Fishers has been building something for years. A professional volleyball team. A world-class event center. A sports and entertainment district that has made other Indiana communities look at their own infrastructure and wonder what they’re missing. On Wednesday, the next chapter arrived — and it is the most significant announcement yet for the state’s fastest-growing sports ecosystem.
The City of Fishers unveiled plans for a $169 million expansion of the Fishers District that includes a development that will change the landscape of Indiana volleyball at every level. The City of Fishers will build a $65 million, 180,000-square-foot Fishers Fieldhouse — the official training facility and headquarters for Major League Volleyball’s Indy Ignite, and the first facility of its kind in the entire MLV.
That’s not a renovation. That’s a statement.
“Today is just another huge milestone for this franchise and also for our community,” said Indy Ignite President and General Manager Mary Kay Huse. “This new state-of-the-art practice facility will be the first of its kind for Major League Volleyball.”
The Ignite arrived in Fishers in January 2025. They reached the championship game in their inaugural season, losing to the Orlando Valkyries , before returning in 2026 as one of the league’s most watched franchises. A professional volleyball team with a championship pedigree, playing in front of sold-out crowds at the Fishers Event Center, now getting a purpose-built training headquarters — that’s a program signaling it intends to be here for a long time, competing at the highest level the sport offers.
But the part of this announcement that matters most to Indiana’s athletes isn’t the professional layer.
The Fishers Fieldhouse will include flex space for 10 basketball courts or 20 volleyball courts, aimed directly at youth sports leagues and tournaments. Pro Net Sports will anchor the facility with a new Indy Hoops Academy girls basketball program and a new AAU boys basketball program. The courts that will train professional volleyball players during the week will host Indiana’s young athletes on weekends — the same model that made Grand Park one of the most impactful youth sports investments in the country.
The fieldhouse will break ground in fall 2026 and is expected to open in late 2027 or early 2028.
The broader Fishers District expansion running alongside this announcement adds further context to the scale of what’s being built. JD North America — the parent company of JD Sports and Finish Line — announced it is relocating its headquarters to Fishers, bringing 400 existing employees and creating approximately 200 new jobs. Buckingham Companies is developing Contrast | Fishers, a 50-acre mixed-use project with 265 apartments and townhomes adjacent to the district. A live, work, and play environment is being built around a sports infrastructure — and volleyball is at the center of it.
Fishers Mayor Scott Fadness framed the long-term vision plainly: “Having a mix of people living here, while working here, while also entertainment and playing here — having all of that in one district really allows for sustainability long term.”
For Indiana’s volleyball community — the club programs, the high school programs, the athletes who have grown up with this sport and watched it grow into something the state takes seriously — Wednesday’s announcement is the latest confirmation of something that has been building for two years. Central Indiana isn’t just a great place to play volleyball. It is becoming the place to play volleyball in the Midwest.
The Fishers Fieldhouse gives the Ignite a home that matches their ambition. It gives Indiana’s youth athletes courts that match the standard being set at the top. And it gives the entire ecosystem — from a sixth grader at club practice to a professional player in training — a shared infrastructure that connects every level of the sport under one roof.
That’s what a volleyball economy looks like when it’s fully built.
Fishers is getting there. The rest of Indiana is watching.

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