Intergenerational Recreation Center (iG Center)

The iG Center is the Indian River County Intergenerational Recreation Center, a county indoor event venue and recreation building at 1590 9th St SW, Vero Beach, built in 2016.

The county page describes the iG Center as Indian River County's response to the growing demand for an indoor event venue and recreation facility, and says the state of the art facility was constructed in 2016 (Indian River County, Intergenerational Recreation Center page). Its main space is a 13,425 square foot event hall/gymnasium that can accommodate up to 550 guests, and the building also has a media room, several multi-use rooms, a courtyard and an outdoor veranda. The phone for the building is (772) 226-1780.

The county's rental brochure gives the building as a whole the heading iG CENTER, 37,000 SQ FEET, and says its rooms can accommodate events or functions up to 1,690 patrons (iG Center facility rentals brochure). The Indian River County web page ties its 550 guest figure to the event hall, and the brochure ties its 1,690 figure to the center's rooms. The brochure states the center's mission as providing diverse recreational programming to serve the young and young at heart.

The Indian River County iG Center is open Monday through Thursday 8:30am to 8:30pm, Friday and Saturday 8:30am to 5:00pm, and is closed Sunday.

The hours and the January 1 closure come from the county page for the Indian River County iG Center (iG Center hours of operation). Last verified: October 22, 2026, by re-reading the iG Center page and rental brochure, the county FY2025/26 budget book, the Supervisor of Elections early voting page, and the county athletics and activities pages.

Indian River County rents the iG Center event hall, multi-use rooms and media room for private and community events, with rental questions going to (772) 226-1780.

The iG Center rental brochure pitches the rooms for corporate meetings, nonprofit seminars and civic organization meetings, and calls the large multipurpose rooms ideal for wedding receptions, banquets and parties (iG Center rentals brochure, Indian River County). Its list of event types runs from presentations, video conferences and trade shows to performances, fundraisers, movies, reunions, birthday parties, graduations, farmers markets and school functions, and it invites renters to ask about event packages and to reserve the media room. The web page calls the venue an affordable option and links Program Registration and an iG facility and room rentals page (iG Center page). The county web page posts no room rates.

Rental demand is tracked in the Indian River County budget as iG Center Meeting Rental Inquiries, shown below as the budget prints them (Adopted Budget 2025/2026, Recreation performance indicators).

Indian River County Parks and Recreation runs adult basketball, youth sports, fitness, dance, art and game programs at the iG Center, with schedules and per-session costs posted on the county activity pages.

On the county athletics page, the Adult Coed Basketball League is scheduled at the Intergenerational Recreation Center (iG Center) on Monday and Wednesday evenings, with a program cost of $475 per team as posted on that page in October 2026 (Indian River County athletics page). The same page lists the iG Center among the gymnasiums for coed youth basketball league games, along with the Indian River County Fairgrounds, and describes PE at the iG for children and a Kids Fencing 101 class held there. The county activities page lists programs at the Intergenerational Recreation Center at 1590 9th St SW, Vero Beach, including board games, an open art studio, line dancing, ballroom and Latin dance, and mah jongg sessions, each with its own day, age range and per-session cost (Indian River County activities page).

Among Recreation Division accomplishments, it says the division hosted a chess class for children and a teen parkour class at the iG center, and added 7 new adult fitness/wellness classes to the iG Center, including line dancing and veteran's yoga; its goals include increasing evening contracted instructor classes at the iG Recreation Center (Indian River County budget, Recreation accomplishments and goals).

When the county's Thor Guard system sounds one 15-second horn blast, all outdoor activities at the iG Center stop immediately and everyone must take shelter until three 5-second blasts give the all-clear.

The iG Center page explains that inclement weather may close outdoor facilities, athletic fields and courts, or delay, suspend or cancel games at the Intergenerational Recreation Center and at Dick Bird Park (iG Center inclement weather policy). Thor Guard, it says, is a lightning prediction and warning system that analyzes the atmospheric electrostatic field to detect conditions favorable for lightning before the first strike. Activities resume only after the all-clear signal and after staff complete a safety assessment of the facilities, and heavy rainfall or saturated fields can also delay or cancel games. The Indian River County page carries a Lightning Closure Status panel, and the county says cancellations are communicated through the official Parks, Recreation and Conservation channels whenever possible.

Yes, the Indian River County Supervisor of Elections lists the Intergenerational Recreation Center, Room 112, at 1590 9th Street SW as an early voting location in the county.

The same page names Sebastian City Hall Council Chambers, the Indian River County Main Library and the Supervisor of Elections office as early voting locations too; a separate Digital Towns guide on where to vote covers those sites. The Supervisor of Elections early voting page also posts the dates and hours for each election and the identification voters must show (Indian River County Supervisor of Elections, Early Voting Information). Because early voting days change with every election, that page is the place to check before going to the Vero Beach site.

The iG Center has its own cost center, 004-115 Recreation-Intergenerational Facility, in the Indian River County budget, and the county lists the facility among projects built with Optional Sales Tax funding.

Those figures appear in the budget's expense by department table for the municipal service taxing unit fund, and the same Indian River County budget names, among completed Optional Sales Tax projects, the Intergenerational Facility alongside the courthouse, county roads and several parks (Adopted Budget 2025/2026). One of the county's stated goals for the year is to increase iG Center revenue by 10% from the prior fiscal year. The page footer gives the county's main number, 772 567 8000, and the 1801 27th Street address in Vero Beach (county contact block).