With heavy rains in the morning, but sunny skies at the ground-breaking ceremony, the location had to be adjusted a bit Thursday so it wouldn’t be a mud-breaking ceremony.  Flexware Innovations is set to start construction on its new headquarters.  The building will be a part of the Municipal Complex, near the Nickel Plate Amphitheater.

Flexware is planning the $3.5 million project , featuring a 35,000-square foot office building with 12,000 square feet of office space for Flexware and a build-to-suit area in the remaining space. The City of Fishers will construct a 100-space public parking lot which will be free and open to the public after 6 p.m. on weekdays and all day on weekends.

The IT firm says it will be creating 68 new jobs that the city describes as “high-wage.”

Fishers Mayor Scott Fadness and Flexware President Scott Whitlock made remarks at the ground-breaking.  The mayor said the Internet of Things (IoT) is something he learned recently, but he found Flexware has been working on IoT projects for 20 years.

Whitlock presented the city with a donation for the Nickel Plate Trail.

Scott Whitlock, President of Flexware Innovations, along with Fishers Mayor Scott Fadness and other officials break ground for the new Flexware building