Fishers Deputy Mayor Elliott Hultgren says the new Events Center is on track for a grand opening in November of 2024.  Hultgren told the Board of Public Works and Safety that the award of an $18 million bid to Hunt Construction in the public-private partnership arrangement “closes out the bid process” for this project.

The Events Center will be the home for the Fuel minor league hockey team and the Fuel recently announced an indoor football team will also be a tenant in the building.

Mayor Scott Fadness says after some “bad soils” found in the parking area of the construction site, there should be no more “unforeseen costs” as work continues on the building.

“I’m not saying there are going to be things that we didn’t consider but now that we are going vertical it eliminates a lot of those unforeseen conditions,” Fadness said.

The board approved the final bid on the Events Center.

In other items before the board at the Thursday morning meeting:

–City Engineering Director Hatem Mekky says the roundabout construction at 106th Street and Hoosier Road should be completed by the end of November or early December.

–The Fishers Police Department will be placing a substation at St. Vincent Hospital at Olio Road to allow faster response times in the northeast corridor of the city.  St. Vincent is providing the space.  Chief Ed Gebhart says the only cost to the city for this substation will be cable service.

–Verizon has not installed any 5G towers in Fishers for a very long time and it appears there are no plans to install any at this time.  The board revoked 15 right-of-way permits because Verizon has not acted on any of these locations for 2 years, resulting in the right -of-way revocations.  Verizon has never commented on why the company stopped constructing 5G towers in Fishers.