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Indianapolis Star
21-05-2025
- Business
- Indianapolis Star
How The Club of Chatham Hills golf course in Westfield landed an LIV event
WESTFIELD — Betsy Henke Garfield and her brother, Brad Henke, initially set up in a coffee shop at Chatham Hills to take the Zoom call. Henke Garfield, a partner with Henke Development Group, had been contacted by the Indiana Sports Corps, informing her that site selectors with LIV golf would be in town and were interested in meeting. They weren't entirely sure how "real" the invitation was, she laughed Wednesday, but within a few seconds of dialing in, they realized the interest was in fact legitimate and quickly relocated to a conference room. "Right from the get-go it was an exciting surprise that Indy was back in consideration for major professional golf at that elite level," Henke Garfield said. "It's been a long time." The two sides continued working together and when the site selectors visited Indianapolis, Henke Garfield showed them around Grand Park and explained how Indianapolis "would rally for golf and rally for their event," same as it has for other major sporting events. LIV event in Westfield: Golfer Bubba Watson gives Caitlin Clark driver, plans to visit IMS "I think they were considering Indy, but that really helped us stand out," she said. "There's the family aspect and hospitality feel, too — all these pieces started to make sense." About a year after that initial Zoom call and LIV officials were back in Westfield, this time to promote the Individual Championship finale, slated for Aug. 15-17 at The Club of Chatham Hills. "When you think about where we're at, what part of the world we're at, the location we're at — it's pretty central, and when you think about Indiana, you think about sports," said Bubba Watson, a LIV golfer and two-time Masters champion. "Golf is just a new adventure, trying to bring it here, trying to get people behind it. … It's going to be fun for us, but I think bringing a different sport to this area, which is already a sports town, is a dream come true for us." The three-round, no-cut event will have heavy implications on the LIV season, Watson said, with an individual champion being crowned, as teams jockey for position in the team championship chase. "There's going to be some real competition, some real grinding out there trying to better yourself for the road ahead." There's also hope the event will further the game's growth in the Indianapolis area. Henke Garfield recalled LIV players wanting to play in front of kids who like to compete. "Just let them see the game of golf and hope they'll want to start playing it," she said. "And that's kind of what we do with all the other sports, right?" Watson headed out to the practice greens after completing his media responsibilities Wednesday and offered a few putting tips to those in attendance before inviting golfers from the Guerin Catholic and Westfield high school teams to try their hand at knocking one down. "We're trying to inspire young people to get outside and play golf and see a great game," Watson said. "There's so many levels to golf. It's not just professional golf, but maybe we can inspire like Caitlin (Clark) does around here and get people to play the game."
Yahoo
12-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Noblesville eyes largest residential development in city history
Plans are proceeding for a massive $2 billion residential development in Noblesville that amounts in scope to some Indiana small towns. Gatewood Lakes would be a square-mile of homes, parkland, man-made lakes and stores between 156th and 146th streets and Olio and Cyntheanne roads, near Ruoff Music Center. Zionsville-based Henke Development Group submitted plans to build 2,422 houses and possibly 1,000 apartments over seven to 10 years. The housing will include single-family houses, townhouses and duets. Once completed, the 1,300-acre development will have a population well over 5,000, said Sarah Reed, development director for Noblesville. 'This is far bigger than anything ever developed in Noblesville,' Reed said, adding that the next two largest developments are both on 600 acres. The farmland in unincorporated Hamilton County was sold by the Gatewood family to Henke and valued at $3.4 million. The city is annexing it in a voluntary agreement so it can provide street, water and sewer upgrades. More: Fishers is getting a second Target. Here's where Within the next four years, 20% of the project will be completed. The costs of added police and fire protection and other city services will be off-set by property tax collections, which the city estimates will reach $6.3 million annually by the fourth year of development. Reed described the development as high-end and self-sustaining, a specialty of Henke. 'Henke is known for building communities within communities,' she said. 'And they are resort style places, with many amenities. We don't have that in Noblesville.' The project site would be divided into six sections, such as Garden Park District and Gatewood Landing — and a commercial district will be a 200-acre section called Deer Creek Village. The village will have mixed-use developments of apartments, offices, commercial, restaurants, shops and bars. Artist's renderings show a big-box style hardware store and grocery along with smaller businesses in a downtown setting consistent with the "Main Street," architectural aesthetic of Hamilton Town Center. Single family house townhomes with a variety of sizes and styles from different home builders will line residential streets with sidewalks in other parts of the development. More than 20-miles of trails will snake through 140 acres of parkland and along several water bodies. At least one footbridge would cross a lake leading to an island in one of the lakes. Gatewood Lakes is north of Noblesville's Innovation Mile business and technology corridor and east of Ruoff Music Center. Reed said the proposed golf cart development is close enough for residents to walk to either of the nearby amenities. 'It works well within the contours we've crafted and the trail connections' she said. The project was introduced to the City Council Tuesday and will be sent to the Plan Commission for a public hearing on Feb. 2 and vote on Feb. 18. From there it goes back to the council for a vote on Feb. 25. Call IndyStar reporter John Tuohy at 317-444-6418. Email at and follow on X/Twitter and Facebook. This article originally appeared on Indianapolis Star: Noblesville eyes largest residential development in city history
