Indy’s MLS Stadium District May Violate Spirit Of State Law [Video]

INDIANAPOLIS — The city of Indianapolis gave its approval for a change-up in the tax district approved last year for a soccer stadium on Monday.

The vote will seek to implement a special taxing district to support a soccer stadium where the Indianapolis Heliport is located downtown. The hope is to attract an MLS expansion franchise to the city. It now needs approval from the Metropolitan Development Commission before it can be sent to the state budget committee.

The city is planning to get this reset version of the tax district approved under a state law passed in 2023 that allowed Indianapolis to create a tax district for Eleven Park. It’s this effort that has the Indiana Attorney General stepping in with a legal opinion he released on Tuesday.

Rokita said in the memo that the new tax district approved by the Indianapolis City-County Council may violate the spirit of the state …