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Speaker 1: Central Indiana, once again proving they are the epicenter of

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Speaker 1: the sports world, or at least trying to be. This

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Speaker 1: has been on the template for a few days, we

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Speaker 1: just didn't get to it. Noblesville selected as the future

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Speaker 1: home of USA Gymnastics, their new training and wellness center

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Speaker 1: and also national office headquarters. They announced this on September

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Speaker 1: twenty third. The center is going to be built in

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Speaker 1: Innovation Mile, which is a six hundred acre development along

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Speaker 1: Interstate sixty nine already home to the arena where the

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Speaker 1: Indiana Pacers NBA G League team play. So this new facility,

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Speaker 1: it's going to host the national team camps, educational workshops,

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Speaker 1: community outreach events, and also competition and it's going to

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Speaker 1: serve as a training hub for Olympic level athletes, also

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Speaker 1: some youth development programs. There was a little bit of

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Speaker 1: a competition there whether they were going to pick Westfield

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Speaker 1: or Frisco, Texas, and they decided to go with Noblesville

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Speaker 1: and Mayor christ Jansen. He said, the facility is going

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Speaker 1: to foster Olympic dreams and community involvement and equip athletes

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Speaker 1: with the tools and training needed to compete on the

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Speaker 1: global scale. Who's paying for it. It's always the question, right.

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Speaker 2: Right, what sort of tax of eightmens did USA Gymnastics

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Speaker 2: get to build a Noblesville. I'm sure there was some

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Speaker 2: sort of sweetheart deal cut to lure them there. But

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Speaker 2: this goes back to what we talk about all the time.

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Speaker 2: Whenever I'm filling in for Rob it seems like if

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Speaker 2: and it can be difficult for us to recognize this

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Speaker 2: because we live in Indianapolis and it's just kind of.

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Speaker 1: It's part of the culture, part of the culture to it.

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Speaker 2: But it is so rare and so special that Indianapolis

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Speaker 2: has become such a sports destination because Indianapolis is considered

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Speaker 2: a mid size to large city. I mean, it's about

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Speaker 2: what a large market.

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Speaker 1: It's not a major, it's not New York.

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Speaker 2: Chicago ele it's not top ten, it's not top twenty.

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Speaker 2: I think Indianapolis metro is about top about thirty five

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Speaker 2: or something like that, biggest in the country. But when

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Speaker 2: you think about how this city attracts everything sports, whether

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Speaker 2: and Indiana Sports Core or Indie Sports Court does a

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Speaker 2: big part of that, whether it's the Indy five hundred,

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Speaker 2: all the big Indie car teams have their headquarters here

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Speaker 2: in this region. You've got the Colts, the Pacers, Fever Butler,

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Speaker 2: the Big Town Football Conference Championship game played at Lucas

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Speaker 2: Oil every year. We've got the Final Four back for

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Speaker 2: n for men's basketball in twenty twenty six, the US

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Speaker 2: Swimming Trials where they built that incredible Olympic pool at

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Speaker 2: Lucas Oil Stadium. NCAA headquarters are here, the Brickyard four hundred,

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Speaker 2: the NHR Nationals, All Star Games, WWE Wrestling, and then

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Speaker 2: all the minor league teams have got minor league volleyball

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Speaker 2: and hockey and all the That is exceptionally rare for

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Speaker 2: a city of this size to have so many different

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Speaker 2: sporting events, especially national ones come to this city on

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Speaker 2: a regular basis, and it's awesome. And this is just

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Speaker 2: another kind of feather in the cap of making Indianapolis

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Speaker 2: the Sports Capital of the Country.

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Speaker 1: Project supports the Indiana Sports Corp's vision to have Indiana

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Speaker 1: be a global sports epicenter. On their way also Indiana

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Speaker 1: as the Women's Sports Capital of the world. USA Gymnastics.

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Speaker 1: They're going to launch a fundraising campaign to support construction

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Speaker 1: operation and the final scope and development of the city.

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Speaker 1: A lot happening in Noblesville right now, because I also

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Speaker 1: saw this other article that they're working towards unveiling a

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Speaker 1: downtown plan for the Embrace Downtown project. It's going to

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Speaker 1: be unveiled at an open house coming up on Monday,

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Speaker 1: and this project aims to create a more welcoming and

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Speaker 1: vibrant environment to include improvements to infrastructure, pedestrian safety, and

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Speaker 1: also overall beautification of downtown Noblesville.

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Speaker 2: How much is it going to cost?

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Speaker 1: What's it? What's it good to tell you?

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Speaker 2: How much is going to cost to make downtown Noblesville

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Speaker 2: be beautiful?

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Speaker 1: So beautiful?

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Speaker 2: The most beautiful city in America. No, it wasn't part

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Speaker 2: of it.

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Speaker 1: No, that was that wasn't it.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure it's plenty of taxpayer dollars