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The Valencia Ice Station is closing permanently effective immediately after 20 years in business, officials announced Wednesday.
The Ice Station is the only full ice skating rink in the Santa Clarita Valley, according to the company.
“The uncertainty of a reopening date combined with loss of income due to the COVID-19 pandemic has made a recovery unsurmountable and closing permanently unavoidable,” read a statement on their website.
The Ice Station previously closed on March 13 amid the coronavirus outbreak.
The Express and Flyers youth hockey club is set to cease to operate out of the Ice Station. Relocation information is expected to be posted on the Express and Flyers website as soon as it becomes available, according to the Ice Station.
The ice rink recommends that residents contact their coach directly to see where they are moving and further recommends that residents contact the Hollywood Curling Club Administrator for further information on curling.
“It has been a privilege and an honor to have been a positive part of so many peoples’ lives, and we hope that you and your families stay safe and healthy during these very challenging times,” Ice Station officials said.
For information on the rink where the “Lil’ player” for the Lil’ Kings hockey program will be reassigned, the Ice Station recommends that residents contact the Kings organization directly
For previously booked parties, the Ice Station recommends contacting the ice rink directly.
More information is available on the Valencia Ice Station website.
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Pretty sad…… first business here I’ve heard of that’s now closing permanently, but it sure won’t be the last! Here comes the avalanche of dying businesses! I personally don’t skate or anything, but I know it’s the only one in our area, and I feel sorry for the hockey folks and skaters in general. Very sad……
I was always curious how it stayed open. It was never very busy and it’s huge. Unfortunately hockey is not a very popular sport and we don’t have enough Canadians in SCV lol. But sad to see any business close.
Not true. ESPN just issued an article regarding hockey as one of the biggest growing sports for kids. The Anaheim organization was directly mentioned program with its huge growth being one of the largest in the US.
So very sad as a parent of two figure skaters. We’ve been going to ice station 3-4 times a week for the past 8 years. My girls are heart broken
Two girls in figure skating? With Ice Station closing their doors, you could put THAT money to better use. Your girls will live without figure skating. Life goes on.
You too could put YOUR money to better use ….like hiring an empathy coach.
@David Why on earth would you feel the need to make such a nasty comment at a time like this?
Unreal.
What an unnecessary comment during hard times. I hope that your unhappiness doesn’t continue to cause you to make others unhappy. I wish you the best, and hope that one day you learn empathy.
Yes, life will go on. But investing my money into my kids to have a skill, a talent, exercise, build strength, confidence, balance and have good clean safe fun is a good use of it.
Hear hear Slater mom! Great reply to a selfish comment.
Sorry, I didn’t know that Figure Skating was in demand in the real world. You had invested you money in a REAL skill for your children. Just can’t believe that you would drop all that hard earned money for your children to be on the ice for ONE SONG (5 mins) to skate to. Find a new hobby, Kids. Stop wasting mommy’s & daddy’s money.
David, obviously you never learned that if you can’t say something nice, then don’t say anything at all.
I am not going to write a list of all the positive attributes that skating (or any sport) provides children and families. I don’t have to justify anything to someone who is so clearly ignorant.
Perhaps you should start looking inward to discover why you make such bitter, ugly comments.
I appreciate your concern for my finances and my children’s development.
You sir are a jerk. Parents spend a fortune on many different types of sports. Would you say the same thing about Football, Baseball, Basketball, Track and Field, Swimming, Hockey, etc?
All the parents that invest in their children know that their child might not be the next Olympian, The next Brett Farve, the next Kobe Bryant, the next Michael Phelps, the next Babe Ruth…
These parents, myself included as the mother of a figure skater, invest in our children to teach them love of a sport, determination, work ethic, perseverance, strength conditioning, how to win and lose gracefully and respect.
You sir, may have not have been an athlete. Maybe you were into the arts, theater, academics, technology, debate, etc.and your parents supported you in that way.
Everything that children are in costs money.
So yes, while figure skating is expensive, who in the world are you to tell someone else how to spend their money and what to spend it on.
Go grouch on someone you can physically talk to and maybe they will tell you that you need to not be a jerk!
Fond memories of skating with Santa Clarita Special Olympics!! Very sad indeed! We will miss you!
Too bad for the players in the various teams that called it home. Must not have been built or run very well. Always deathly cold inside and restrooms constantly out of order, etc… Everywhere else in SoCal, you can’t have enough sheets of ice… Place should have been a goldmine.
I am so sad. I watched it get built and was so happy not to have to drive down to the San Fernando Valley at all hours to play hockey. I coached Mites there, they just held a free skate for Saugus High School students. My heart is broken. Yes life will go on but for people who love skating, playing hockey, speed skating, curling, etc… this is a big deal.
I learned to skate here. I took classes and was in figure skating competitions. My daughter loved skating here and it will break her heart that this place is no longer here. I am heart broken. So many businesses that I love and support are going to suffer from this and I am so wrought with sadness 🙁
If the Coronavirus results in a higher number of mortalities that local mortuaries can’t or will not handle, the health and/or coroner’s departments may have to use this facility as a temporary morgue where to place the deceased. Look at what’s occuring in Madrid for reference.
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This is not making sense to several hockey families.
The ice station closed 2 days prior to a planned closure for some remodeling and repairs due to COVID. However within the last 2 weeks the ice station should have been working on those remodeling and repairs. How is it that now they are blaming the closure on COVID. My thought this is an excuse for the owner to sell it which he’d been wanting to do for some time. This has robbed our kids from looking forward to going back to hockey after the COVID outbreak. There is something more to this than blaming COVID for the closure. Please look into it. Please call the city to not allow this to happen to our community. Several hockey players, ice skaters, speed skaters, etc need this place to reopen. This place can’t be sold and be converted into something else. These sports mean so much for the kids and their families.
To all Valencia hockey & skating parents: Please do everything you can to fight transfer of ownership if you think this is just cover for real estate development!
1. I live in the Bay Area with three boys playing for the Black Stars. The Valencia spring tournament is one of the highlights of our season. You have a great facility there, especially with the mite pond! I will miss our annual Memorial Day weekend trips for the great tournament you host.
2. Do some research on the ice rink at Bridgepointe in San Mateo. The previous owner, an absentee foreigner with no interest in kids recreation opportunities, shut it down under cover of cost with the goal of redeveloping it for retail use. His main obstacle was that the lot was zoned for recreation use. In order to hold the city hostage and force them to rezone his property he said “fine, leave it as recreational use but nowhere does the city code say it needs to be OPERATIONAL recreation use. I will just leave it as an empty ice rink”. This went on for four years. Every time it came before city council the local hockey and skating families would attend en masse with their kids, even when the hearings were late at night. Each year the owner increased his ‘offer’ of money for the city to use on another recreational property but to the city’s credit they saw those offers for the bribes they were. Eventually the owner gave up his fight and agreed to sell it to Ice Oasis, who operates the rink in Redwood City, and today (well, not today during the shutdown) it is fully operational as a rink. (Although right now all of us who use the Ice Oasis rinks are nervous about their ability to survive the lack of revenue for three or four months)
But the only reason Bridgepointe operating again as an ice rink is because families forced the local city council to hear their voices. Please do the same thing and fight for your rink!!!
Good luck!
Let’s all of us do something to rescue this wonderful place, it is a place that is great for our kids.
100% agree. I’ve been playing with the same great group of guys for a decade at the Ice Station. It’s our second home and this is a punch to the gut. What can we do to help?
I could see this coming for a long time, this would have happened even without the Corona Virus, it just made it happen sooner. I do feel for the programs that will end especially the Special Olympic Snap Hockey program. Beckie Warlow, and other volunteers put so much into this program!!
Something smells fishy here. The owners have been trying to sell it for a year. Then the cooler required maintenance so they were shutting down for two weeks to fix it and then the virus hit and… voila, they’re closed for good. Is this a way to skip out of making payments to staff and for equipment? Use a national emergency to cover up other problems that had nothing to do with the virus?