Home/Business and development/New $68.5M Indoor Events Center At Celebration Pointe Expected To Open By 2023 Alachua County presented the first-floor plan for the events center at Celebration Pointe in Gainesville, which is expected to be complete by January 2023. (MacKenzie DiLeo/WUFT News) New $68.5M Indoor Events Center At Celebration Pointe Expected To Open By 2023 By MacKenzie DiLeo February 24, 2021 The new indoor sports arena at Celebration Pointe in Gainesville is expected to begin hosting events in January 2023. At Tuesday’s Alachua County Commission meeting, Deputy County Manager for Public Works and Growth Management James Harriott announced the current schedule for the project has the center’s first major event targeted for Jan. 7, 2023, though he did not specify what the inaugural event would be.