Indoor sports facility coming to downtown Owensboro

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) – On Wednesday, community members in Owensboro broke ground on a new indoor sports facility.

It’s being built for everyone to enjoy team sports inside.

The facility will be complete with one turf field and five basketball courts, all of which can be repurposed to fit various sports and tournament play, including volleyball and pickleball.

The facility hopes to grow the economy in the city by bringing in more sports tourism to an already booming business in Owensboro.

“We have restaurants, we have amenities that can provide for those patrons whether they’re here for a tournament and then they can leave and go get a piece of pizza if they like a beer, whatever is going on downtown with the convention center we have multiple other events, so hopefully we can have a mixture of those other events and they’ll have a pleasurable time in Owensboro,” said Lelan Hancock, assistant city manager for the city of Owensboro.

Renderings, a panorama list, and floorplans for the facility can be found here.

It’s set to be open for use in June of 2026, we’ll let you know when the doors officially open.

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