GK Sports and Entertainment proposes to build a $76.4 million recreational sports center with a massive fieldhouse and a 6,000-seat arena in Fishers, city officials have told The Indianapolis Star.

The Indianapolis-based company would own and operate the facility, but Fishers would have to agree to significant incentives to complete the deal.

The City Council will consider a 10-year tax abatement valued at $2 million over that period, the waiver of roughly $1 million in permitting fees and an $805,000 annual lease agreement for local youth sports access. The council will consider the proposal April 20 and vote May 18, after a series of public meetings.

Unless serious dissent appears, the project seems likely to move forward with a summer groundbreaking. Fishers officials will unveil the proposal at 10 a.m. Monday at a news conference at City Hall.

“I think all of us want to get this out to the community and see if people are excited about it,” Mayor Scott Fadness said.

Youth and recreational sports can bring in big bucks from tourism. Hamilton County Tourism Inc. estimates the annual economic impact of the facility in Fishers at $110 million.

The complex would be built on 20 acres at I-69 Exit 210 in the Saxony development.

The facility would feature a 6,000-seat arena that could be converted to host concerts, be reconfigured to seat 4,700 for basketball and volleyball games, or even altered to seat 4,200 for ice hockey games.

The arena would be adjacent to a 245,000-square-foot, quarter-mile-long fieldhouse with a baseball training area, 12 basketball courts and a multipurpose artificial turf area the size of a soccer field. GK would manage and lease the space to recreational sports leagues.

GK Sports also plans to build a 600-space parking garage, several office buildings and, eventually, lure a hotel.

Company co-owner Barry Kiesel, who helped develop the Windermere community in Fishers, said the process has taken four years to get to this point. He thinks he can attract a minor league team to the arena and said the fieldhouse can accommodate 31 different sports.

“This is really a combination of what I call a community center during the week and an event center on the weekend,” Kiesel said.

Fishers’ $805,000 in lease money would rent space in the fieldhouse from 3 to 9 p.m. daily during the school year for HSE Youth Sports, a local recreational league with 11,500 members. A 200-meter walking/jogging track on a mezzanine in the fieldhouse also would be open to Fishers residents daily, potentially from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

HSE Sports Executive Director Linda Carlino said the organization uses gyms at Hamilton Southeastern Schools but often has to rent space at the Noblesville Boys & Girls Club or The Fieldhouse gym in Fishers. On any given night, the kids use 12 to 15 gyms, she said.

“We’re very excited,” she said. “We have a great partnership with the city and the schools, and we are very appreciative that the city is thinking of us, thinking of all of the kids.”

Fishers also could use the arena three times a year, potentially for events such as community concerts or high school basketball sectionals.

Fishers proposes to use property taxes generated from the project, city parks funds and ticket sales from the arena to pay the lease.

Fishers isn’t the only Hamilton County city to offer incentives to lure a sports facility. Westfield is backing a $25 million developers’ loan to build a 370,000-square-foot indoor soccer arena at Grand Park. Westfield proposes to utilize user fees to pay back the loan, but taxes ultimately back that deal, unlike in Fishers.

Fadness, in fact, said Fishers turned down previous offers by companies that wanted the city to fund construction of the arena. He said he thought the offer from GK Sports and Entertainment was as good a deal as the city would get.

“Whether that’s good enough for the community or not … we want to share it with them and find out what they think about it.”

Sean McKinnies, senior vice president of Republic Development, the developer of Saxony, said the sports arena is a good fit for the area. Republic has about 400 acres of the 750-acre development left to build.

“We love that this is community-focused,” McKinnies said. “They will really have their doors open to the residents of Fishers for a good portion of the day.”

Call Star reporter Chris Sikich at (317) 444-6036. Follow him on Twitter: @ChrisSikich.

Upcoming public meetings

City officials have scheduled three meetings for public input on the proposal.

■6 p.m. April 22, Crosspoint Church, 13678 Silverstone Drive.

■6 p.m. April 30, Launch Fishers, 7 Launch Way.

■6 p.m. May 7, City Hall, 1 Municipal Drive.