Skate Zone Fun Center 5420 Mahoning Ave, Austintown, OH. Source: Skate Zone Fun Center.
Skate Zone Fun Center 5420 Mahoning Ave, Austintown, OH. Source: Skate Zone Fun Center.
Skate Zone Fun Center 5420 Mahoning Ave, Austintown, OH. 3D view of entire grounds. AutoZone is not included although the name is quite similar. The Two Zones I would call that because they both are right next to each other. Source: Loop Net.
Skate Zone Fun Center 5420 Mahoning Ave, Austintown, OH. Ah, a happy birthday for Bailee. Happy Birthday Bailee, whoever you are. And so are you, my dear fans of Dead-Rinks! Every day! That white blemish.. that was snow! It was snowing that day! (Look at background and trees). Google Map on left, right is Google Image.
Skate Zone Fun Center 5420 Mahoning Ave, Austintown, OH. Source: Google.
Skate Zone Fun Center 5420 Mahoning Ave, Austintown, OH. Source: Google.
Skate Zone Fun Center 5420 Mahoning Ave, Austintown, OH. Source: Google.
Skate Zone Fun Center 5420 Mahoning Ave, Austintown, OH. Uh oh, I guess cannot go in that way, can I? Source: Loop Net.
Skate Zone Fun Center 5420 Mahoning Ave, Austintown, OH. They had Miniature Golf course. It was Western themed with a fake water tower to act as water fall but there isnt any photograph of the water running. Must be it was supposed to be dry run? I love the mini golf! I played on tournament and did well on top 10 out of say.. 100 people. But that was Putt Putt brand PPGA style. Not this style. I love this style though! Source: Skate Zone website.
Skate Zone Fun Center 5420 Mahoning Ave, Austintown, OH. Source: Skate Zone website.
Skate Zone Fun Center 5420 Mahoning Ave, Austintown, OH. .Entrance to Laser Storm laser tag section. Equipment are noticed on the wall. Enter with fog going on....wooo! All of Skate Zone unless noted. Source: Skate Zone website
Skate Zone Fun Center 5420 Mahoning Ave, Austintown, OH. Source: Skate Zone website.
Skate Zone Fun Center 5420 Mahoning Ave, Austintown, OH. Source: Skate Zone website.
Skate Zone Fun Center 5420 Mahoning Ave, Austintown, OH. Source: Skate Zone website.
Skate Zone Fun Center 5420 Mahoning Ave, Austintown, OH. Source: Skate Zone website.
Skate Zone Fun Center 5420 Mahoning Ave, Austintown, OH. Source: Skate Zone website.
Skate Zone Fun Center 5420 Mahoning Ave, Austintown, OH. Source: Skate Zone website.
Skate Zone Fun Center 5420 Mahoning Ave, Austintown, OH. Source: Skate Zone website.
Skate Zone Fun Center 5420 Mahoning Ave, Austintown, OH. Source: Skate Zone website
Skate Zone Fun Center 5420 Mahoning Ave, Austintown, OH. Source: Skate Zone website.
Skate Zone Fun Center 5420 Mahoning Ave, Austintown, OH. Looking from the pro-shop/prize store. Rink and indoor playground are to the left of the photo above, see next photo. Source: Skate Zone website
Skate Zone Fun Center 5420 Mahoning Ave, Austintown, OH. Source: Skate Zone website.
Skate Zone Fun Center 5420 Mahoning Ave, Austintown, OH. Source: Skate Zone website.
Skate Zone Fun Center 5420 Mahoning Ave, Austintown, OH. Source: Skate Zone website.
Skate Zone Fun Center 5420 Mahoning Ave, Austintown, OH. Source: Skate Zone website.
Skate Zone Fun Center 5420 Mahoning Ave, Austintown, OH. Source: Skate Zone website.
Skate Zone Fun Center 5420 Mahoning Ave, Austintown, OH. Source: Skate Zone website.
Austintown Skating Center 5420 Mahoning Ave, Austintown, OH
Skate Zone Fun Center 5420 Mahoning Ave, Austintown, OH
Sk8 Zone Fun & Event Center 5420 Mahoning Ave, Austintown, OH (aka)
Skate Zone Fun Center 5420 Mahoning Ave, Austintown, OH
Sk8 Zone Fun & Event Center 5420 Mahoning Ave, Austintown, OH (aka)
Skate Zone Fun Center which was also known as Sk8 Zone Fun & Event Center which was at 5420 Mahoning Avenue in Austintown, Ohio. This is another rink sadly closed. They opened in 1994 and they closed on Sunday March 28, 2021.
Before Skate Zone Fun Center, it was lesser known called Austintown Skating Center. Anyone know more about this?
It will become a car wash facility. The building remains the same but everything gutted out to turn into a drive through car wash (automated). Oh sick to the stomach from plastic wheels (quads) into tires and you go through and you remembered it was a rink as your SUV or pickup truck gets washed and you get greeted by manual dry persons. It would not be the same.
I do not have any other information about the owners -- yet and not know any big history about it but a statics you see below.
Because it was built in 1979, was it another rink before this one? Anything?
It was selling for 950,000 USD which was not too bad of a price for the building, property, and the business itself. Modwash bought it for 875,000 USD. Clearly they lowered the offer by 50,000 USD. The reason was because the cost would be around 3.5 Million to 4 Million in US Dollars to convert the former rink into a car wash.
In my opinion the name Skate Zone must have came from AutoZone which was right next door. Has to be. But like I said, opinion, not a fact.
The Interior.
Beautifully designed! Truly feels so late 1980s/early 1990s (they opened in 1994). That look was truly 1980s actually because I have been to places with that look in 1980s. Forest or Grass Green with Yellow (other places with clear coated stain at the time), but they had the carpet apparently from 1990s because the black-light carpeting was fading in many area except for the Laser Storm area of theirs. All new. Very different carpeting but similar.
Newer items there such as the dinettes. All in Royal Blue.. All blues.. Cleary was done in 2000s. Remember that the 2000s the blue hues were big at the time. The green and yellow were very 1980s Milan Chic look. Yes, they even had Diamond mirrors on the wall, a very 1980s look in mid-1990s when they opened. So, actually it was a bit of retro when they first opened. Or very late to have this style while it was already on way out.
What I love are the Starburst lights on the ceiling. They had three of them. One up front with two practically touching each other in the back on the ceiling. It did change colors. Older version of Starburst lights were usually one color or if rink owner wanted, can have different light blubs. But this one clearly looked LED format that it does change color itself when you program it.
Most of the rink has no half walls. Some use benches as barriers. You are practically sitting and eating and drinking next to the rink without half wall as protection! A little sketchy how to going to be safe. you would be splattered with food and drinks on you if an out of control skater crashes into you.
There was a comic strip style on the wall above the food menu which was pretty far up and hard to see. Photographs are hard to read from a certain distance and they did not zoom in.
They could have done was to place that cartoon strip on lower level-- more of like around 5' 3"-- eye level. I believe almost no one read it. Now its gone.
The Exterior.
The property is an L-shaped land. Actually upside down reversed "L" shaped property. The parking lot was in the rear behind of another Zone! Called AutoZone! Yes, both facilities had the name Zone in their names. But they both are no way in association with each other. None of that.
Was it originally the entire property where the AutoZone a parking lot for the original business in 1979? It was possible. They must have split off the land.
Upfront was a miniature golf course with 18 holes. It had a main feature-- a fake water tower with chute to create waterfalls for a décor. Apparently from what I saw in Google Map photos through the years, none a water drop. I believe it was a fake (opinion again). But did it ever run for a time? Some miniature golf courses do have waterfalls. And usually very ugly blue water. Not natural blue water. I do not know why they have to add such ugly blue water. Looks like something out of.. an airline toilet water. Same with porta-potty john water. That is to kill that smell. Well, that is what water filters are for. Not need those ugly blue thingy. Leave that to the toilets, not the fake waterfalls. Shopping malls had it right.
The building color is Royal Blue. Cinderblock built Free-Span Steel Truss Steel-Walled, Gable roof building.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A. Floor: N/A. Floor Layout: N/A.
Building Size: 32,902 SF. Built: 1979. Demolished: N/A.
Type of Building: Free-Span Steel Truss Steel-Walled Warehouse - like Building.
Roof: Gable.
Acres: 2.9350 Acres.
Operated: (Overall)-- 1994 to Sunday, March 28, 2021.
Reason for Closure: N/A.
Wanted: Information regarding exact dates of open, why closed, size of rink. Anyone knows or have photos, please let me know by emailing at [email protected]. Thank you.
Sources:
Skate Zone Fun Center website
Facebook - Skate Zone Fun Center
Trip Advisor;
The Vindicator - Voted to rezone the property;
Showcase (RE)
Loop Net - PDF
Showcase PDF
WKBN 27 - News.
The Vindicator - Rink to close (PDF).
Business Journal - Modwash buys former rink.
Date of issue: 21 March 2021. Update: 07 July 2021.
For office only: 29 ps.
© Copyrighted by Dead-Rinks. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:16.
Before Skate Zone Fun Center, it was lesser known called Austintown Skating Center. Anyone know more about this?
It will become a car wash facility. The building remains the same but everything gutted out to turn into a drive through car wash (automated). Oh sick to the stomach from plastic wheels (quads) into tires and you go through and you remembered it was a rink as your SUV or pickup truck gets washed and you get greeted by manual dry persons. It would not be the same.
I do not have any other information about the owners -- yet and not know any big history about it but a statics you see below.
Because it was built in 1979, was it another rink before this one? Anything?
It was selling for 950,000 USD which was not too bad of a price for the building, property, and the business itself. Modwash bought it for 875,000 USD. Clearly they lowered the offer by 50,000 USD. The reason was because the cost would be around 3.5 Million to 4 Million in US Dollars to convert the former rink into a car wash.
In my opinion the name Skate Zone must have came from AutoZone which was right next door. Has to be. But like I said, opinion, not a fact.
The Interior.
Beautifully designed! Truly feels so late 1980s/early 1990s (they opened in 1994). That look was truly 1980s actually because I have been to places with that look in 1980s. Forest or Grass Green with Yellow (other places with clear coated stain at the time), but they had the carpet apparently from 1990s because the black-light carpeting was fading in many area except for the Laser Storm area of theirs. All new. Very different carpeting but similar.
Newer items there such as the dinettes. All in Royal Blue.. All blues.. Cleary was done in 2000s. Remember that the 2000s the blue hues were big at the time. The green and yellow were very 1980s Milan Chic look. Yes, they even had Diamond mirrors on the wall, a very 1980s look in mid-1990s when they opened. So, actually it was a bit of retro when they first opened. Or very late to have this style while it was already on way out.
What I love are the Starburst lights on the ceiling. They had three of them. One up front with two practically touching each other in the back on the ceiling. It did change colors. Older version of Starburst lights were usually one color or if rink owner wanted, can have different light blubs. But this one clearly looked LED format that it does change color itself when you program it.
Most of the rink has no half walls. Some use benches as barriers. You are practically sitting and eating and drinking next to the rink without half wall as protection! A little sketchy how to going to be safe. you would be splattered with food and drinks on you if an out of control skater crashes into you.
There was a comic strip style on the wall above the food menu which was pretty far up and hard to see. Photographs are hard to read from a certain distance and they did not zoom in.
They could have done was to place that cartoon strip on lower level-- more of like around 5' 3"-- eye level. I believe almost no one read it. Now its gone.
The Exterior.
The property is an L-shaped land. Actually upside down reversed "L" shaped property. The parking lot was in the rear behind of another Zone! Called AutoZone! Yes, both facilities had the name Zone in their names. But they both are no way in association with each other. None of that.
Was it originally the entire property where the AutoZone a parking lot for the original business in 1979? It was possible. They must have split off the land.
Upfront was a miniature golf course with 18 holes. It had a main feature-- a fake water tower with chute to create waterfalls for a décor. Apparently from what I saw in Google Map photos through the years, none a water drop. I believe it was a fake (opinion again). But did it ever run for a time? Some miniature golf courses do have waterfalls. And usually very ugly blue water. Not natural blue water. I do not know why they have to add such ugly blue water. Looks like something out of.. an airline toilet water. Same with porta-potty john water. That is to kill that smell. Well, that is what water filters are for. Not need those ugly blue thingy. Leave that to the toilets, not the fake waterfalls. Shopping malls had it right.
The building color is Royal Blue. Cinderblock built Free-Span Steel Truss Steel-Walled, Gable roof building.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A. Floor: N/A. Floor Layout: N/A.
Building Size: 32,902 SF. Built: 1979. Demolished: N/A.
Type of Building: Free-Span Steel Truss Steel-Walled Warehouse - like Building.
Roof: Gable.
Acres: 2.9350 Acres.
Operated: (Overall)-- 1994 to Sunday, March 28, 2021.
Reason for Closure: N/A.
Wanted: Information regarding exact dates of open, why closed, size of rink. Anyone knows or have photos, please let me know by emailing at [email protected]. Thank you.
Sources:
Skate Zone Fun Center website
Facebook - Skate Zone Fun Center
Trip Advisor;
The Vindicator - Voted to rezone the property;
Showcase (RE)
Loop Net - PDF
Showcase PDF
WKBN 27 - News.
The Vindicator - Rink to close (PDF).
Business Journal - Modwash buys former rink.
Date of issue: 21 March 2021. Update: 07 July 2021.
For office only: 29 ps.
© Copyrighted by Dead-Rinks. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:16.