Courtesy of Zillow website, a real estate website. It showed it was already remodeled and it became a fitness center.
Rolla-Rena Skating Center (West) 20595 McPherson St, Council Bluffs, IA
This rink was one of the two Rolla-Rena. this one being the West and there was the East. This rink has a property that is quite unusual. It had one large main building where the rink was but the other part was two smaller building. The smaller one was a store and the tiny one was a shed. It had matching colors to all of each other. There was also a tower-like in the backyard. It might have been a playground fort with a slide or just a fort.
They began in 1988 and the closure is unknown. From the look of it, it may have appeared to close around 2010 to 2013. The current business is a fitness center that opened in 2013 according to their Facebook. So, the rink ran a little over 20 years.
The address you find in some of the websites I listed in sources say 1998 and the address as 527 Arnold Avenue. That was a residential address. Michael and Sandra Morse owned and operated the rink.
The Interior.
The interior was free-span with a White painted coated Concrete floor to skate and the posts were right by the rails separating the rink from off-the-rink area. The interior today with the fitness center really changed everything and I have no idea what it was like before it became a rink. Anyone? It did, however have that slight pitch gable ceiling with form paneling.
The Exterior.
The grounds has three buildings, the main rink, outbuilding, and a shed. Must be the shed was used for lawn care and snowblower. The other building that was housed as a store. You can tell by all the colorful aluminum exampling were on the wall. I found some of them really attractive and colorful for inside! Haha. It was clearly the rink owner was the landlord to this home improvement store.
The main building was in Grey color and in Steel Sheet walls with a faux Hip shingles roof above the main door.
The rink was long on the side parallel to the street. But the aluminium siding store was on an angle. And the shed was near the store.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A Floor: Painted White coated Concrete Floor Layout: Standard (what you see in pics were remodeling into a fitness center)
Building Size: 13,380 SF with store 1,496 SF Built: N/A Demolished: Still standing
Type of Building: Free Span Steel Warehouse Building.
Roof: Gable
Acres: 2.44 Acres
Operated: 1988 to 2013.
Reason for Closure: N/A
Wanted: Information regarding photos of the rink during its heydays. Both interior and exterior. Exact when opened and closed. Why closed and sell?
Sources: Dun and Bradstreet, Crossfit Vise, Manta, Facebook (Crossfit Vise), Bizapedia,
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This rink was one of the two Rolla-Rena. this one being the West and there was the East. This rink has a property that is quite unusual. It had one large main building where the rink was but the other part was two smaller building. The smaller one was a store and the tiny one was a shed. It had matching colors to all of each other. There was also a tower-like in the backyard. It might have been a playground fort with a slide or just a fort.
They began in 1988 and the closure is unknown. From the look of it, it may have appeared to close around 2010 to 2013. The current business is a fitness center that opened in 2013 according to their Facebook. So, the rink ran a little over 20 years.
The address you find in some of the websites I listed in sources say 1998 and the address as 527 Arnold Avenue. That was a residential address. Michael and Sandra Morse owned and operated the rink.
The Interior.
The interior was free-span with a White painted coated Concrete floor to skate and the posts were right by the rails separating the rink from off-the-rink area. The interior today with the fitness center really changed everything and I have no idea what it was like before it became a rink. Anyone? It did, however have that slight pitch gable ceiling with form paneling.
The Exterior.
The grounds has three buildings, the main rink, outbuilding, and a shed. Must be the shed was used for lawn care and snowblower. The other building that was housed as a store. You can tell by all the colorful aluminum exampling were on the wall. I found some of them really attractive and colorful for inside! Haha. It was clearly the rink owner was the landlord to this home improvement store.
The main building was in Grey color and in Steel Sheet walls with a faux Hip shingles roof above the main door.
The rink was long on the side parallel to the street. But the aluminium siding store was on an angle. And the shed was near the store.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A Floor: Painted White coated Concrete Floor Layout: Standard (what you see in pics were remodeling into a fitness center)
Building Size: 13,380 SF with store 1,496 SF Built: N/A Demolished: Still standing
Type of Building: Free Span Steel Warehouse Building.
Roof: Gable
Acres: 2.44 Acres
Operated: 1988 to 2013.
Reason for Closure: N/A
Wanted: Information regarding photos of the rink during its heydays. Both interior and exterior. Exact when opened and closed. Why closed and sell?
Sources: Dun and Bradstreet, Crossfit Vise, Manta, Facebook (Crossfit Vise), Bizapedia,
© 2019-2020 Copyrighted by Dead-Rinks. All Rights Reserved.