The new Hub & Spoke Design Center – a $14 million, 85,000-square foot development planned on a plot of land southeast of the planned Nickel Plate Trail along 106th Street – has Fishers City Council approval of an incentive package that includes a 10-year real estate tax abatement, fee waivers and a deal for the city to lease space in the building.
The two men behind the Hub & Spoke Design Center project, Travis Tucker and David Decker, were both at the council session but did not speak before the council.
David Decker (left) and Travis Tucker watch as the Fishers City Council approves their incentive package for the new Hub & Spoke Design Center. (Photo provided)
Megan Baumgartner told council members the plans are to have co-working and maker spaces in the building. She said there will be training for people seeking work in the building trades.
The vote to approve the incentive package was unanimous.
In other city council news from Monday night’s session:
- Fishers Police Chief Ed Gebhart administered the oath of office to four new police officers in his department. The new officers are John Settergren, Kevin Starkey, Nick Smiley and Keith Benbow.
- Chief Gebhart saw Officer Binh Denis Monday, and told the council officer Denis was “the most active and communicative that I’ve seen him since the accident.” Binh has been fighting an infection in his leg and the chief says the infection appears gone but must be watched so the infection does not reappear. The officer is in the fight to get healthy, Gebhart said, and Monday was a good day for him. Officer Binh was badly injured in an early October off-duty motorcycle accident that happened in Brown County.
- During the City Council Finance Committee meeting held before the regular council session, Deputy Mayor Elliott Hultgren told committee members that the fire equipment and crew in the headquarters building near City Hall will be moved to the apartments at the Fuel Tank, off 126th Street near the YMCA. The move will be needed when the entire fire headquarters building is demolished and rebuilt next year.