Category: Arena News

Continuing its New Jersey acquisition spree, Black Bear Sports Group announced that it has purchased Skylands Ice World, a two-sheet ice arena complex in Stockholm, New Jersey. This represents Black Bear’s fourth facility in New Jersey acquired within the last two years. It is difficult to gauge the effect that Black Bear’s activity in New…

Black Bear Sports Group, a private equity investment group that has been purchasing established indoor ice facilities primarily in the Northeastern United States, announced Friday that an affiliate had acquired Aspen Ice Arena in Randolph, New Jersey. Aspen Ice is the company’s third acquisition in New Jersey. Previous acquisitions in the area include: Jersey Shore…

Black Bear Sports Group acquires the Revolution Ice Gardens hockey arena complex in Warwick, Pennsylvania. Warwick is in Lower Bucks County, about 25 miles / 40 kilometers north of Center City Philadelphia. (“Center City” is a term Philadelphians use for “Downtown”.) Phil and Devra Pulley, the previous owners of Revolution Ice Gardens announced the sale on March 1.…

Last night we learned of a unique hockey rink in a giant farm shed on a farm in Madison Lake, a small town in Southeastern Minnesota.  It’s called Schulz Rink of Dreams in honor of the late Paul Schulz. Schulz was a hockey fan of epic proportions.  His love of hockey was so great that…

Here’s the latest arena to be added to RinkAtlas. It’s a place called Shinapest Tooma Memorial Arena in Kawawachikamach, Québec. We updated @RinkAtlas to add three photos of the Shinapest Tooma Memorial Arena in the Kawawachikamach First Nation, https://t.co/MWmFRH21YY. These photos were contributed by Nicolas Chalifoux of Honco Steel & Joé Juneau. We thank them…

Global News reports that Vernon Civic Arena in Vernon, British Columbia will hold an 80th anniversary celebration on Saturday, January 6, with a final scheduled BCHL (junior hockey) game between the Vernon Vipers and Prince George Spruce Kings.  The Vernon Civic Arena is considered the first indoor ice arena in the Okanagan. The game is sold out, but tickets…

Thanks to friends like Adam Wodon of College Hockey News, we are gathering historical information about arenas in North America. One of the documents that Adam found and shared with us is Local Ice Rinks in the Copper Country.This is a history of ice rinks in the western part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Ice…

Yesterday, Cassidy Ritter in Dallas-Fort Worth Community Impact reported that Dr. Pepper StarCenter McKinney will add an additional 1,800 seat NHL-sized sheet, with more parking and locker rooms. What makes this article especially interesting is the details of what was said in the presentation to the McKinney City Council, the repurposing of space devoted to ball fields…