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The University of Indianapolis features the 90,200 square-foot Athletics & Recreation Center (ARC), which was dedicated with a "Skybreaking" ceremony on Jan. 27, 2011. The ARC provides much-needed space for athletics teams and related academic programs as well as fitness facilities for the entire campus community.

Furthermore, the ARC at the University of Indianapolis was the NFC practice site for the 2012 Super Bowl.

The overall budget for the project was under $6 million. The ARC features a 68,000-squrare-foot air-supported dome with a training room, a competition-fit indoor track facility, baseball batting cages, an expanded weight room, an indoor golf practice facility, multi-purpose courts for basketball and other sports and locker rooms for football, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's track and field, softball and baseball. The new facility also includes a 20,000 square-foot office space. The coaching staffs of football, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's track and field, softball, baseball and men's and women's golf are housed in the ARC.

The support building, the hhgregg Athletics Hall, is located at the northwest end of Key Stadium, with the dome just north of that and a connector between the two. The project also includes construction of a new Wimp Baumgartner Softball Field east of the dome, replacing a field that was lost to the construction of East Hall, the new residence hall for upperclassmen. (Mary “Wimp” Baumgartner, Class of ’57, was a three-sport letterwinner and 1989 UIndy Hall of Fame inductee. She also played from 1949 to 1954 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and later was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.)

The new center helped alleviate crowding and scheduling issues in the university's existing Ruth Lilly Fitness Center, where the ball courts, weight rooms and other facilities are shared by athletes and non-athletes alike. Moving athletic offices out of the Ruth Lilly Center also created classroom space for UIndy's popular academic programs in kinesiology and athletic training.