Gainbridge Fieldhouse

Gainbridge Fieldhouse is an indoor arena located in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. It opened in November 1999 to replace Market Square Arena. The arena is the home of the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Indiana Fever of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). It also hosts college basketball games (including the annual Big Ten Conference tournaments), indoor concerts, and ice hockey.

Gainbridge Fieldhouse

Gainbridge Fieldhouse in 2012
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Former names	Conseco Fieldhouse (1999–2011) Bankers Life Fieldhouse (2011–2021)
Address	125 South Pennsylvania Street
Location	Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
Coordinates	39°45′50″N 86°9′20″W
Owner	Capital Improvement Board, City of Indianapolis
Operator	Capital Improvement Board of Managers of Marion County, Indiana
Capacity	Basketball: 17,274 Concerts: 19,000 Ice hockey: 11,651
Construction
Broke ground	July 22, 1997
Opened	November 6, 1999
Renovated	2020–2022
Expanded	2022
Years active	1999–present
Construction cost	US$183 million (US$345 million in 2024 dollars[1])
Architect	Ellerbe Becket Blackburn Architects[2]
Project manager	John Klipsch Consulting, LLC[3]
Structural engineer	Fink Roberts & Petrie Inc.[4]
Services engineer	Moore Engineers, P.C.[5]
General contractor	Hunt/Smoot[6]
Tenants
Indiana Pacers (NBA) (1999–present) Indianapolis Ice (CHL) (1999–2004) Indiana Fever (WNBA) (2000–2019, 2021–present) Indiana Firebirds (AFL) (2001–2004) Indiana Mad Ants (NBAGL) (2023–2025)
Website
gainbridgefieldhouse.com

Originally named Conseco Fieldhouse, after the financial firm Conseco, the arena was renamed Bankers Life Fieldhouse, before Gainbridge became the naming rights sponsor in 2021.

Design

Ellerbe Becket designed the arena's distinctive brick and glass facade to evoke Indiana's classic high school and college field houses. Unlike most other North American sports arenas, the facility was designed primarily for basketball. The arena can accommodate an NHL-sized rink, but the ice hockey seating capacity is reduced to 12,500 in an asymmetrical configuration.^[7]

Naming rights

The arena was originally named Conseco Fieldhouse, as the naming rights to the venue were sold to Conseco, a financial services organization based in nearby Carmel. In May 2010, the company renamed itself CNO Financial Group, but the fieldhouse retained the Conseco name. In December 2011, CNO Financial Group changed the name of the fieldhouse to Bankers Life Fieldhouse, after one of its subsidiaries, Bankers Life and Casualty.^[8] CNO decided not to renew its naming sponsorship after it expired on June 30, 2019.^[9] On September 27, 2021, the fieldhouse announced that Indianapolis-based financial platform Gainbridge would be the new naming partner for the fieldhouse in a multi-year partnership.^[10]