All of the appearance as of 2020 under the old ownership of Roller Land before the lockdowns. Courtesy of Loopnet.
The photos below showed the new renovation to Roller Land in 2021 with the new owners JM and KK has done. Wow, impressive stuff they have done! Finally rinks have arrived in 21st Century.
Left and above. The left is a prop they put up that is a tube light and supersized admission tickets that are normally the look at any rinks. Very simple tickets. Hey I still have mine from Empire and Sports. The above appears to be a something with Roller Roo on it. Can you guess? I do not know but I am guessing it is a rubber mat or mud mat.
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All courtesy of Roller Land. All were taken in 2021.
Rollerland 1621 South Choctaw Road, Choctaw, Oklahoma. All 4 taken in Spring 2021. Wow, what a good crowd! It is crowded! Roller Skating is back. I noticed both young and older people at the rink especially you can see in bottom photo above showing of all ages. Courtesy of Rollerland/JT & KK.
Roller Land 1621 S Choctaw Rd, Choctaw, OK
Roller Land was recently a rink in Choctaw, Oklahoma. SCRATCH THAT! ROLLER LAND IS ALIVE AGAIN UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT/OWNERSHIP! Congratulations to the new owners! The 18,000 SF rink was in a Steel-walled Free-span steel truss warehouse-like building. As of May 2020, they were selling the facility for 1.6 Million US Dollars. Was the COVID-19 to be blamed for the sale? Shutting down since March 11, 2020, it has hurt every single industry in the United States and globally. It is tragic collapse of everything.
THEY REOPENED ON NOVEMBER 27, 2020! WOOO!
Maybe this profile I made last summer 2020 helped a potential buyer to buy this rink? Its possible. I know of a potential buyer asked me if I know any rinks for sale and I told him to check out profiles and ask around such as Loop Net or Realtor.com or Realty Trac and he must have purchased this! This is great! We are very resourceful and I do assist any potential or new rink operators in search of any property that I can find for them. However, Dead-Rink is not a real estate company. It is for educational purposes only.
UPDATE:
I received an email from one of the owners of this rink, JT and wow, truly a lot of backstory to this rink. Here is what he has to say--
My name is Jt . I co-own the skating rink with my friend KK.
Rollerland was built and opened in 1993. The original owners owned and ran multiple roller skating rinks around the Oklahoma City metro, including Skateland in Midwest City (now called Star Skate)
My mom took me there that same year Rollerland opened to skate. I spent my entire childhood and teenager years at that rink. I met key people in my life and we are still best friends to this day.
I was hired in 2005 to work the Skate Counter, however I quit because I wanted to skate, obviously!
Rollerland closed temporarily in 2006 to add additional square feet to the north of the building as well as a new Lobby. This is apparent from the difference in color of the metal roof. They also resurfaced the floor and raised it a couple inches.
I was rehired in 2007 as a Floor Guard. KK, my business partner, is younger than me so he was a teenager while I worked there.
The entire floor guard staff and DJ (4 employees, including me) quit in December 2009. I didn’t go back for several years. (I am curious why all 4 quit in the same month?)
The original owners sold it in 2017 to retire. The new owner is a real estate investor who’s plan was to rent it to his friend who was going to run the business and the original owner’s daughter was going to manage the day to day operations.
Around this time in 2017, I started skating again and was going to an adult night at another skating rink when I ran into KK who I haven’t seen in years so we became friends.
Back to Rollerland, the person who was suppose to run the business became ill with cancer and died shortly after. Tensions arose (or so I’m told) between the skating rink portion and the newly added daycare operations during the day.
Overtime, the manager (original owner’s daughter) quit and when that happened, it went downhill fast. This is apparent due to the reviews online where a lot of the 1 star reviews are about the new manager(s).
COVID-19 hit, they closed due to government restrictions and business owner no longer wanted to deal with it so in October, myself and KK was able to get ahold of the business.
We spent a month just to clean, fix a lot of lights, door, skates, arcade games, etc. Bought new appliances, upgraded a lot of stuff and we are still working on it each week.
I can send pictures of all the new stuff we’ve added and upgraded if you want! (I did requested and yes, I received them on 02 May 2021.)
Thanks!
Wow, that is Great Jt! I wish nothing but the best for you and KK. Skaters, check it out! Awesome they are back and please give them your local support!
The Interior.
The interior was beautiful. It is at the moment with that icy colors with sleek wall mural which is more of a graphic design than a mural. It has that sleek perspective. to make it look like the rink is larger. I have seen this before. At my former employer, Sports-O-Rama. The main colors are Cloud White, with Sky-Blue and Violet colors. With Cloud White ceiling, it made the space feel taller and bigger. And the perspective graphics made the place look larger or rather longer. And brighter yet feels cooler because skating is a fitness and if you use dark, you will feel heavy and tiring and you get skaters to leave sooner than thought. With this rink, it is very comfortable with those brightness. Yet, it has more darker tones on other parts of the building where you are not skating including the carpet, Brick-Red brick snack bar, and seating. It was quite opposite of the rink itself. For instance, the carpet is pretty much black with much less wildness of carpet.
Their lockers are in Sky-Blue as opposed to many rinks have them in popular School Bus Yellow. They are right by arm reach of skate counter.
The arcade area appeared to be very roomy. Everything seems to be roomy for a building of 18 thousand square feet which is quite functional and balanced for this rink as the owners had this place designed in early 1990s before construction which I would have graded this as high. High it was for the former and as current alive rink.
The Exterior.
Free Span Steel Truss Steel Walled Warehouse-like Building. It has two main entries. East and North side of the building. White colored exterior wall. What makes it more interesting is that the facility has TWO main entries to the rink. Why two? I looked at the photo and I think I know why. The original doors were on east side apparently. I think the original wall was where the rink side was. They expanded to make more accessible such as more room for tables, snack bar, rentals, etc. They made the North side more sleek design with Brick Red Bricks out-build for admissions. the East side became exit and emergency doors. Having said, likely it was because of the number of skaters, parents, and others coming in and it takes time to get in there for admission. I really like the North side entryway that had that sleek 1970s look built in 1990s or in 2000s.
Note- I did my assessment correct, read what Jt said in his email he send to me. The expansion. I stood corrected.
The property sits on a 2.25 acres but one part of Loopnet says it is 2.5 acres and the printable brochure/flyers said 3.05 acres (around there). Will door number 1, 2, or 3 is correct? Needs to state which. From what I saw in aerial view, it looks more like a 3 acres (maybe more than that). The rink building sits on a third of the property outlines. Almost as if you have perfectly sliced into threes with the rink having the middle slot while the slot on the North side is for parking and on the South side, pretty much grass. It even have a shed for lawn mowers, lawn tools, shovels, etc.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A Floor: Sky Blue Coated over (possible) Poured Concrete floor
Floor Layout: Standard
Building Size: 18,000 SF Built: 1993 Demolished: Still standing.
Type of Building: Free Span Steel Truss Steel Walled Warehouse-like Building.
Roof: Gable
Acres: 2.256 Acres.
Operated: 1993 to May 2020. REOPENED NOVEMBER 27, 2020.
Reason for Closure: Original owners had it with COVID restrictions. Gave up and sold to Jt and KK.
Wanted: Information regarding Exact dates of open and closure. 1990s photos if any.
Anyone has pictures and/or information please let me know at [email protected]. Thank you.
Sources: Loop Net, Brochure, Facebook, Website,
Date of Issue: Summer 2020. Update: 23 April 2021. Update again: 26 April 2021. Updated again: 02 May 2021. Update again: 23 May 2021.
© Copyrighted by Dead-Rinks. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:3,16.
THEY REOPENED ON NOVEMBER 27, 2020! WOOO!
Maybe this profile I made last summer 2020 helped a potential buyer to buy this rink? Its possible. I know of a potential buyer asked me if I know any rinks for sale and I told him to check out profiles and ask around such as Loop Net or Realtor.com or Realty Trac and he must have purchased this! This is great! We are very resourceful and I do assist any potential or new rink operators in search of any property that I can find for them. However, Dead-Rink is not a real estate company. It is for educational purposes only.
UPDATE:
I received an email from one of the owners of this rink, JT and wow, truly a lot of backstory to this rink. Here is what he has to say--
My name is Jt . I co-own the skating rink with my friend KK.
Rollerland was built and opened in 1993. The original owners owned and ran multiple roller skating rinks around the Oklahoma City metro, including Skateland in Midwest City (now called Star Skate)
My mom took me there that same year Rollerland opened to skate. I spent my entire childhood and teenager years at that rink. I met key people in my life and we are still best friends to this day.
I was hired in 2005 to work the Skate Counter, however I quit because I wanted to skate, obviously!
Rollerland closed temporarily in 2006 to add additional square feet to the north of the building as well as a new Lobby. This is apparent from the difference in color of the metal roof. They also resurfaced the floor and raised it a couple inches.
I was rehired in 2007 as a Floor Guard. KK, my business partner, is younger than me so he was a teenager while I worked there.
The entire floor guard staff and DJ (4 employees, including me) quit in December 2009. I didn’t go back for several years. (I am curious why all 4 quit in the same month?)
The original owners sold it in 2017 to retire. The new owner is a real estate investor who’s plan was to rent it to his friend who was going to run the business and the original owner’s daughter was going to manage the day to day operations.
Around this time in 2017, I started skating again and was going to an adult night at another skating rink when I ran into KK who I haven’t seen in years so we became friends.
Back to Rollerland, the person who was suppose to run the business became ill with cancer and died shortly after. Tensions arose (or so I’m told) between the skating rink portion and the newly added daycare operations during the day.
Overtime, the manager (original owner’s daughter) quit and when that happened, it went downhill fast. This is apparent due to the reviews online where a lot of the 1 star reviews are about the new manager(s).
COVID-19 hit, they closed due to government restrictions and business owner no longer wanted to deal with it so in October, myself and KK was able to get ahold of the business.
We spent a month just to clean, fix a lot of lights, door, skates, arcade games, etc. Bought new appliances, upgraded a lot of stuff and we are still working on it each week.
I can send pictures of all the new stuff we’ve added and upgraded if you want! (I did requested and yes, I received them on 02 May 2021.)
Thanks!
Wow, that is Great Jt! I wish nothing but the best for you and KK. Skaters, check it out! Awesome they are back and please give them your local support!
The Interior.
The interior was beautiful. It is at the moment with that icy colors with sleek wall mural which is more of a graphic design than a mural. It has that sleek perspective. to make it look like the rink is larger. I have seen this before. At my former employer, Sports-O-Rama. The main colors are Cloud White, with Sky-Blue and Violet colors. With Cloud White ceiling, it made the space feel taller and bigger. And the perspective graphics made the place look larger or rather longer. And brighter yet feels cooler because skating is a fitness and if you use dark, you will feel heavy and tiring and you get skaters to leave sooner than thought. With this rink, it is very comfortable with those brightness. Yet, it has more darker tones on other parts of the building where you are not skating including the carpet, Brick-Red brick snack bar, and seating. It was quite opposite of the rink itself. For instance, the carpet is pretty much black with much less wildness of carpet.
Their lockers are in Sky-Blue as opposed to many rinks have them in popular School Bus Yellow. They are right by arm reach of skate counter.
The arcade area appeared to be very roomy. Everything seems to be roomy for a building of 18 thousand square feet which is quite functional and balanced for this rink as the owners had this place designed in early 1990s before construction which I would have graded this as high. High it was for the former and as current alive rink.
The Exterior.
Free Span Steel Truss Steel Walled Warehouse-like Building. It has two main entries. East and North side of the building. White colored exterior wall. What makes it more interesting is that the facility has TWO main entries to the rink. Why two? I looked at the photo and I think I know why. The original doors were on east side apparently. I think the original wall was where the rink side was. They expanded to make more accessible such as more room for tables, snack bar, rentals, etc. They made the North side more sleek design with Brick Red Bricks out-build for admissions. the East side became exit and emergency doors. Having said, likely it was because of the number of skaters, parents, and others coming in and it takes time to get in there for admission. I really like the North side entryway that had that sleek 1970s look built in 1990s or in 2000s.
Note- I did my assessment correct, read what Jt said in his email he send to me. The expansion. I stood corrected.
The property sits on a 2.25 acres but one part of Loopnet says it is 2.5 acres and the printable brochure/flyers said 3.05 acres (around there). Will door number 1, 2, or 3 is correct? Needs to state which. From what I saw in aerial view, it looks more like a 3 acres (maybe more than that). The rink building sits on a third of the property outlines. Almost as if you have perfectly sliced into threes with the rink having the middle slot while the slot on the North side is for parking and on the South side, pretty much grass. It even have a shed for lawn mowers, lawn tools, shovels, etc.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A Floor: Sky Blue Coated over (possible) Poured Concrete floor
Floor Layout: Standard
Building Size: 18,000 SF Built: 1993 Demolished: Still standing.
Type of Building: Free Span Steel Truss Steel Walled Warehouse-like Building.
Roof: Gable
Acres: 2.256 Acres.
Operated: 1993 to May 2020. REOPENED NOVEMBER 27, 2020.
Reason for Closure: Original owners had it with COVID restrictions. Gave up and sold to Jt and KK.
Wanted: Information regarding Exact dates of open and closure. 1990s photos if any.
Anyone has pictures and/or information please let me know at [email protected]. Thank you.
Sources: Loop Net, Brochure, Facebook, Website,
Date of Issue: Summer 2020. Update: 23 April 2021. Update again: 26 April 2021. Updated again: 02 May 2021. Update again: 23 May 2021.
© Copyrighted by Dead-Rinks. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:3,16.