RollerWorld 383 Coleman Street, Crestview, FL. Beautiful logo. Courtesy of RollerWorld.
Hot Wheels Skating Center 383 Coleman Street, Crestview, FL. Sign displaying as Hot Wheels Skating Center. Courtesy of Realty House Commercial Properties, Inc.
Skate Topia 383 Coleman Street, Crestview, FL. Sign displaying as Skate Topia over the Hot Wheels Skating Center sign. Courtesy of Google Maps.
Skate Topia 383 Coleman Street, Crestview, FL. Sign displaying as Skate Topia second generation. Courtesy of Google Maps
RollerWorld 383 Coleman Street, Crestview, FL. Final sign. The shape was originally from Skate Topia. Courtesy of RollerWorld.
Hot Wheels Skating Center 383 Coleman Street, Crestview, FL. The exterior view of the former rink as Hot Wheels Skating Center. Source: Loop Net/CoStar.
Hot Wheels Skating Center 383 Coleman Street, Crestview, FL. The exterior view of the former rink as Hot Wheels Skating Center. Source: Realty House Commercial Properties, Inc.
Hot Wheels Skating Center 383 Coleman Street, Crestview, FL. The interior view of the former rink as Hot Wheels Skating Center. The carpetiles were even on the wall. Original colors. Source: Realty House Commercial Properties, Inc.
Hot Wheels Skating Center 383 Coleman Street, Crestview, FL. The interior view of the former rink as Hot Wheels Skating Center. Arcade and DJ booth. Source: Realty House Commercial Properties, Inc.
Hot Wheels Skating Center 383 Coleman Street, Crestview, FL. The Interior view of the former rink as Hot Wheels Skating Center. Arcade area. Source: Realty House Commercial Properties, Inc.
Hot Wheels Skating Center 383 Coleman Street, Crestview, FL. The interior view of the former rink as Hot Wheels Skating Center. Arcade games area. Source: Realty House Commercial Properties, Inc.
Hot Wheels Skating Center 383 Coleman Street, Crestview, FL. The interior view of the former rink as Hot Wheels Skating Center. Eating area. Source: Realty House Commercial Properties, Inc.
Hot Wheels Skating Center 383 Coleman Street, Crestview, FL. The interior view of the former rink as Hot Wheels Skating Center. Source: Realty House Commercial Properties, Inc.
Hot Wheels Skating Center 383 Coleman Street, Crestview, FL. The interior view of the former rink as Hot Wheels Skating Center. The DJ Booth. Source: Realty House Commercial Properties, Inc.
Hot Wheels Skating Center 383 Coleman Street, Crestview, FL. Part of the sign was missing, weeds growing by the wall. Illegal graffiti over there.. Courtesy of Devon Ravine/NW Florida Daily News.
RollerWorld 383 Coleman Street, Crestview, FL. Updated with new dinettes and farout galaxy themed black light carpet. Courtesy of RollerWorld.
Skate Topia 383 Coleman Street, Crestview, FL. Courtesy of Google Maps.
Skate Topia 383 Coleman Street, Crestview, FL. Dated March 2014. Courtesy of Google Maps.
Skate Topia 383 Coleman Street, Crestview, FL. Courtesy of a Fan on Skate Topia Facebook Fan page.
RollerWorld 383 Coleman Street, Crestview, FL. Walls were redone. New colors. Following the trend. Yes, that Disco mirror ball is gone. Boohoo. What did they do with it? Courtesy of RollerWorld.
RollerWorld 383 Coleman Street, Crestview, FL. RollerWorld truly has that title for sure because of its beauty inside. The walls completely changed. It is black walls. With Blue walls and all. Wooo! Needs some glow sticks, right? Photo courtesy RollerWorld.
RollerWorld 383 Coleman Street, Crestview, FL. RollerWorld truly has that title for sure because of its beauty inside. The walls completely changed. They even went further by painting the floor black and sort of Lime Green to make it much darker. Photo courtesy RollerWorld.
Hot Wheels Skating Center 383 Coleman Street, Crestview, FL
Skatetopia 383 Coleman Street, Crestview, FL
RollerWorld 383 Coleman Street, Crestview, FL ***RECENTLY CLOSED MAY 28, 2023***
Skatetopia 383 Coleman Street, Crestview, FL
RollerWorld 383 Coleman Street, Crestview, FL ***RECENTLY CLOSED MAY 28, 2023***
UPDATE!
***Sadly RollerWorld Closed on 28 May 2023!***
Congratulations to the new owners of RollerWorld, the newest rink in the former Hot Wheels Skating Center and Skatetopia. Skatetopia closed in 2018 but the rink was bought in 2020 after they saw this rink and looked up and said they saw about this dead rink! Did they see Rink-History? I am sure they must have! Once again, Congratulations to Jiani and Jeff Hawks, the owners of RollerWorld! They opened in October 2020. ***UPDATE: The Hawks family who owned RollerWorld has shut down permanently on 28 May 2023 for good. I wish I knew and would have contacted them. They did say when they bought it they saw this profile and bought the rink at the time. Now my heart broke because they close it.
History:
First there was Hot Wheels Skating Center. It had no relations to Hot Wheels toy cars. The rink was established in 1995 in Crestview, FL northeast of Pensacola, a coastal city in the Panhandle part of Florida.
It had a gable roofed aluminum siding building which was quite common for rinks from 1970s on. The soft Honey-Yellow colored building with woods behind the building and a residential house adjust to the rink building for the operator to live there. The building had part of the wall up front by the main doors (2) with Yellowish flat stones veneer. The house matched to the style to match to the building.
It was opened by Richter Ye Sun and Sean Richter.
The rink building also had a very short canopy which did not do much service to cover people like some other rinks had canopy like a hotel does have. The interior however, shows rather a small size rink with titled carpet on the wall and a wall had strong Blue color. It has a rather white ceiling panel and not too much of disco lights. Just a diamond ball with some spot lights pointing to the diamond ball. It was very simple. Now, the off-rink area including arcade, snack-bar, etc. It was rather a ship Grey carpet with some squares with colors. As with the benches, they are shaped like a S or N or a U-n. See photos to see what I am talking about.
Both side of that area has those seating with the DJ booth in the middle between two walls ends. One side I said before is Blue, the other is Red. They give that 1990s/early 2000s décor look.
The snack-bar area had checkered floor with booths. The rail itself has Blue steel pipes dividing the section. There is a menu on the wall above the 4 windows of the snack-bar. The photo did not do any good to show it would be opened. Those are closed windows. It apparently would be open when the rink opened. This rather unusual rink had 1970s/1980s Tiffany's-style stain glass pendants hanging from the ceiling in the snack-bar area. Those three pendants were not matchable. Three different styles. This is quite non-traditional for a skating rink. Maybe for a 70s or 80s theme restaurant would have that. I recalled many restaurants back in the Seventies and the Eighties had those lamps.
What was so odd even more was... no lockers! I did not see any lockers in this real estate advertisement series of photo that this place is for lease (not sale).
The rink itself has concrete floor in Navy Ship Grey. It is a necessity to have concrete in Florida due to hurricanes.
The rink closed in 2013. Apparently it became Skate Topia. You will see the difference between Hot Wheels and Skate Topia. Skate Topia remodeled by painting Purple all around instead of Bold Blue and Patriotic Red. The rink lasted till 2018. Their website is down and it was a dot org on their site. However, Facebook still shows posts on there till 2018. Someone on there said "bowling ally" but apparently with photos, it was skating rink and they closed down. The same person said it is closed as of November 10, 2018. Specific date of closure is unknown.
As Skate Topia, the walls changed to Purple and the white walls where the off-rink area was became Sky Blue with Purple trims on doors, windows, etc.
According to Loopnet, the ad went up on May 20, 2014 and was updated on April 7, 2017. It says its off-the-market for now. Was it sold? The photos showed as Hot Wheels. The same concept with the Realty House Commercial Properties, Inc. Apparently it was up for sale/lease in 2014 but when did Skate Topia was running? Facebook explained it ran till 2018. Apparently the place was for sale or leased in 2014 and it became Skate Topia and went out of business in 2018 and the fate of the building and house is unknown because it says its off the market.
UPDATE-- (06 May 2021).
A former manager of another rink in another state knew about this rink who was telling me this rink was reopened recently as RollerWorld and I saw their website, the photograph of the rink.. OH MY GOODNESS! Truly gorgeous! Really beautiful. All bluesy! The in look with that color for a long time. Gone are the Flat Stone Veneer on the wall and was replaced which appeared to be black. With Blue around on top half of the wall. Truly modern in there. And it is quite Minimalist because of just Blue Monochromic with some black lights shining as well.
UPDATE-- (01 June 2023).
Sadly the rink ceased operation on 28 May 2023. Was it really because of the virus lockdowns? It is possible.
The building was built in 1982.
Rink Size: N/A Floor: Concrete Floor Layout: Standard.
Building Size: 12,600 Sq Ft. That does not include the house square footage. House appeared to be a two bedroom single bath (possible of 1,100 Square feet including garage-my observation.)
Built: 1982
Type of Building: Free-Span Steel Trusses Steel - Walled Warehouse - like Building.
Roof: Gabled
Acres: N/A.
Architect: N/A.
Contractor: N/A.
Interior Designer: N/A.
Organ: N/A.
10 Pins Bowling Lanes: None.
Duck Pins Bowling Lanes: None.
Candlestick Bowling Lanes: None.
Pocket Billiard Tables: N/A.
Amusement Rides: None.
Driving Range Slots: None.
Miniature Golf Course: None.
Arcade: (Number unknown) Each rink operations, it changes as seen in photos.
Skee-Ball: N/A.
Fascination: None.
Restaurant: None.
Cocktail lounge: None.
Laser Tag: None.
Bounce Houses: None.
Bumper Cars: None.
Go-Kart: None.
Motel: None.
Swimming Pool: None.
Jungle Gym Playground: None.
Skate Park: None.
Theater (movie/stage): None.
Operated:
Hot Wheels Skating Center: May 20, 1997 to September 27, 2013.
Skate Topia: ? 2013 to November 2018.
RollerWorld: October 2020 to Present. STILL OPERATIONAL.
Reason for Closure: Owner's health (Hot Wheels), Unknown (Skate Topia)
Hot Wheels Skating Center: Owner's health force retirement.
Skate Topia: N/A.
RollerWorld: STILL OPERATIONAL.
Sources:
Facebook - Skate Topia
Realty House Commercial Properties, Inc.
Manta.com - Hot Wheels Skating Center
bizapedia.com - Hot Wheels Skating Center;
intercreditreport.com - Hot Wheels Skating Center;
RollerWorld - Website ceased.
NWF News Daily - new owners opens up Roller World
Facebook - RollerWorld (page ceased)
Date of Issue:
February 2019.
Update(s):
06 May 2021.
01 June 2023.
Wanted: Information regarding exact dates of open/closed, why closed, size of rink, rink materials. Also, photos/articles. Also send me any updates such as reopening, sold, name changes, or whatsoever occurred with this rink or any rinks. Anyone knows or have photos, please let me know by emailing at Rink-History©. Before you email, please state this rink name AND THE CITY AND STATE (or COUNTRY) so I can know where or what rink you are talking about. Thank you. We welcome both active and defunct rinks.
For office use only: 22.
Worth to visit:
None.
DISCLAIMER:
International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© (formerly known as Dead-Rinks) and Mark Falso are not responsible for your physical and legal injuries you may have caused. We do not endorse such illegal activities including breaking and entry of former rinks, malls, abandoned buildings, etc. Please always obey laws and regulations and property owner's signs. Some states allow purple paint on fence which means they even have guns on their property and have rights to shoot you. Please DO NOT attempt to enter property without permission!
For abandoned rinks, after you receive permission, do WEAR safety OSHA equipment including a safety glasses, pair of safety gloves, an orange vest or a jacket, and a construction helmet.
Thank you for understanding.
Dead Rinks is now International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© because many former names have become new names at the same rinks that are still active and due to much confusion, We have decided that International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© fits better for all rinks including defunct, closed, inactive, rebooted, and rinks that are still active today. For short on this site, it is International Roller Skating Rinks History© Bear with us as we change the entire site page by page each day. Thank you for understanding.
Second of all: The contents including words and photos above on this page and/or on any pages are purely educational entertainment purposes only. I provide what information from other websites, skaters, and operators and it may end up with different results between two (or more) sources. It is not our responsible for errors we caused. All sources are shown on each page. All opinions and statements of mine are also stated and are for purely educational entertainment only.
Rinks that are closed are considered dead. Rinks that are/were sold and with new management names new name(s), the former are considered dead. Previous operating rink that closed but came back years later, are considered dead because the reopening is considered rebooted, nothing to do with the former. Since we are rebooted to allow alive rinks, active rinks, we welcome those active rinks as well. It will be described.
As for “For Office Only” is for my reasoning and private legal reason for that.
Any music associated with any YouTube or any other videos provided on International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© are not the property of International Commercial Archeology Preservation© Group and/or International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© therefore we do not own the rights to the music.
All photos you submitted or we retrieved become property of International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© and are watermarked but they are credited to you (or where the source is from). Thank you for understanding. To understand more about this, please go to this page: Disclaimer.
© Copyrighted by International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation©, an International Commercial Archeology Preservation© Group. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:3 to 16. Deut. 32:7.
***Sadly RollerWorld Closed on 28 May 2023!***
Congratulations to the new owners of RollerWorld, the newest rink in the former Hot Wheels Skating Center and Skatetopia. Skatetopia closed in 2018 but the rink was bought in 2020 after they saw this rink and looked up and said they saw about this dead rink! Did they see Rink-History? I am sure they must have! Once again, Congratulations to Jiani and Jeff Hawks, the owners of RollerWorld! They opened in October 2020. ***UPDATE: The Hawks family who owned RollerWorld has shut down permanently on 28 May 2023 for good. I wish I knew and would have contacted them. They did say when they bought it they saw this profile and bought the rink at the time. Now my heart broke because they close it.
History:
First there was Hot Wheels Skating Center. It had no relations to Hot Wheels toy cars. The rink was established in 1995 in Crestview, FL northeast of Pensacola, a coastal city in the Panhandle part of Florida.
It had a gable roofed aluminum siding building which was quite common for rinks from 1970s on. The soft Honey-Yellow colored building with woods behind the building and a residential house adjust to the rink building for the operator to live there. The building had part of the wall up front by the main doors (2) with Yellowish flat stones veneer. The house matched to the style to match to the building.
It was opened by Richter Ye Sun and Sean Richter.
The rink building also had a very short canopy which did not do much service to cover people like some other rinks had canopy like a hotel does have. The interior however, shows rather a small size rink with titled carpet on the wall and a wall had strong Blue color. It has a rather white ceiling panel and not too much of disco lights. Just a diamond ball with some spot lights pointing to the diamond ball. It was very simple. Now, the off-rink area including arcade, snack-bar, etc. It was rather a ship Grey carpet with some squares with colors. As with the benches, they are shaped like a S or N or a U-n. See photos to see what I am talking about.
Both side of that area has those seating with the DJ booth in the middle between two walls ends. One side I said before is Blue, the other is Red. They give that 1990s/early 2000s décor look.
The snack-bar area had checkered floor with booths. The rail itself has Blue steel pipes dividing the section. There is a menu on the wall above the 4 windows of the snack-bar. The photo did not do any good to show it would be opened. Those are closed windows. It apparently would be open when the rink opened. This rather unusual rink had 1970s/1980s Tiffany's-style stain glass pendants hanging from the ceiling in the snack-bar area. Those three pendants were not matchable. Three different styles. This is quite non-traditional for a skating rink. Maybe for a 70s or 80s theme restaurant would have that. I recalled many restaurants back in the Seventies and the Eighties had those lamps.
What was so odd even more was... no lockers! I did not see any lockers in this real estate advertisement series of photo that this place is for lease (not sale).
The rink itself has concrete floor in Navy Ship Grey. It is a necessity to have concrete in Florida due to hurricanes.
The rink closed in 2013. Apparently it became Skate Topia. You will see the difference between Hot Wheels and Skate Topia. Skate Topia remodeled by painting Purple all around instead of Bold Blue and Patriotic Red. The rink lasted till 2018. Their website is down and it was a dot org on their site. However, Facebook still shows posts on there till 2018. Someone on there said "bowling ally" but apparently with photos, it was skating rink and they closed down. The same person said it is closed as of November 10, 2018. Specific date of closure is unknown.
As Skate Topia, the walls changed to Purple and the white walls where the off-rink area was became Sky Blue with Purple trims on doors, windows, etc.
According to Loopnet, the ad went up on May 20, 2014 and was updated on April 7, 2017. It says its off-the-market for now. Was it sold? The photos showed as Hot Wheels. The same concept with the Realty House Commercial Properties, Inc. Apparently it was up for sale/lease in 2014 but when did Skate Topia was running? Facebook explained it ran till 2018. Apparently the place was for sale or leased in 2014 and it became Skate Topia and went out of business in 2018 and the fate of the building and house is unknown because it says its off the market.
UPDATE-- (06 May 2021).
A former manager of another rink in another state knew about this rink who was telling me this rink was reopened recently as RollerWorld and I saw their website, the photograph of the rink.. OH MY GOODNESS! Truly gorgeous! Really beautiful. All bluesy! The in look with that color for a long time. Gone are the Flat Stone Veneer on the wall and was replaced which appeared to be black. With Blue around on top half of the wall. Truly modern in there. And it is quite Minimalist because of just Blue Monochromic with some black lights shining as well.
UPDATE-- (01 June 2023).
Sadly the rink ceased operation on 28 May 2023. Was it really because of the virus lockdowns? It is possible.
The building was built in 1982.
Rink Size: N/A Floor: Concrete Floor Layout: Standard.
Building Size: 12,600 Sq Ft. That does not include the house square footage. House appeared to be a two bedroom single bath (possible of 1,100 Square feet including garage-my observation.)
Built: 1982
Type of Building: Free-Span Steel Trusses Steel - Walled Warehouse - like Building.
Roof: Gabled
Acres: N/A.
Architect: N/A.
Contractor: N/A.
Interior Designer: N/A.
Organ: N/A.
10 Pins Bowling Lanes: None.
Duck Pins Bowling Lanes: None.
Candlestick Bowling Lanes: None.
Pocket Billiard Tables: N/A.
Amusement Rides: None.
Driving Range Slots: None.
Miniature Golf Course: None.
Arcade: (Number unknown) Each rink operations, it changes as seen in photos.
Skee-Ball: N/A.
Fascination: None.
Restaurant: None.
Cocktail lounge: None.
Laser Tag: None.
Bounce Houses: None.
Bumper Cars: None.
Go-Kart: None.
Motel: None.
Swimming Pool: None.
Jungle Gym Playground: None.
Skate Park: None.
Theater (movie/stage): None.
Operated:
Hot Wheels Skating Center: May 20, 1997 to September 27, 2013.
Skate Topia: ? 2013 to November 2018.
RollerWorld: October 2020 to Present. STILL OPERATIONAL.
Reason for Closure: Owner's health (Hot Wheels), Unknown (Skate Topia)
Hot Wheels Skating Center: Owner's health force retirement.
Skate Topia: N/A.
RollerWorld: STILL OPERATIONAL.
Sources:
Facebook - Skate Topia
Realty House Commercial Properties, Inc.
Manta.com - Hot Wheels Skating Center
bizapedia.com - Hot Wheels Skating Center;
intercreditreport.com - Hot Wheels Skating Center;
RollerWorld - Website ceased.
NWF News Daily - new owners opens up Roller World
Facebook - RollerWorld (page ceased)
Date of Issue:
February 2019.
Update(s):
06 May 2021.
01 June 2023.
Wanted: Information regarding exact dates of open/closed, why closed, size of rink, rink materials. Also, photos/articles. Also send me any updates such as reopening, sold, name changes, or whatsoever occurred with this rink or any rinks. Anyone knows or have photos, please let me know by emailing at Rink-History©. Before you email, please state this rink name AND THE CITY AND STATE (or COUNTRY) so I can know where or what rink you are talking about. Thank you. We welcome both active and defunct rinks.
For office use only: 22.
Worth to visit:
None.
DISCLAIMER:
International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© (formerly known as Dead-Rinks) and Mark Falso are not responsible for your physical and legal injuries you may have caused. We do not endorse such illegal activities including breaking and entry of former rinks, malls, abandoned buildings, etc. Please always obey laws and regulations and property owner's signs. Some states allow purple paint on fence which means they even have guns on their property and have rights to shoot you. Please DO NOT attempt to enter property without permission!
For abandoned rinks, after you receive permission, do WEAR safety OSHA equipment including a safety glasses, pair of safety gloves, an orange vest or a jacket, and a construction helmet.
Thank you for understanding.
Dead Rinks is now International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© because many former names have become new names at the same rinks that are still active and due to much confusion, We have decided that International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© fits better for all rinks including defunct, closed, inactive, rebooted, and rinks that are still active today. For short on this site, it is International Roller Skating Rinks History© Bear with us as we change the entire site page by page each day. Thank you for understanding.
Second of all: The contents including words and photos above on this page and/or on any pages are purely educational entertainment purposes only. I provide what information from other websites, skaters, and operators and it may end up with different results between two (or more) sources. It is not our responsible for errors we caused. All sources are shown on each page. All opinions and statements of mine are also stated and are for purely educational entertainment only.
Rinks that are closed are considered dead. Rinks that are/were sold and with new management names new name(s), the former are considered dead. Previous operating rink that closed but came back years later, are considered dead because the reopening is considered rebooted, nothing to do with the former. Since we are rebooted to allow alive rinks, active rinks, we welcome those active rinks as well. It will be described.
As for “For Office Only” is for my reasoning and private legal reason for that.
Any music associated with any YouTube or any other videos provided on International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© are not the property of International Commercial Archeology Preservation© Group and/or International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© therefore we do not own the rights to the music.
All photos you submitted or we retrieved become property of International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© and are watermarked but they are credited to you (or where the source is from). Thank you for understanding. To understand more about this, please go to this page: Disclaimer.
© Copyrighted by International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation©, an International Commercial Archeology Preservation© Group. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:3 to 16. Deut. 32:7.