Woodland Roller Rink 2100 28th Street SE, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Very unique design. Love the look. It is quite different. Billboard like at the entrance. Source: Woodland Roller Rink on Facebook.
Woodland Roller Rink 2100 28th Street SE, Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was a good bye message. Very much reminded me of a children show at the end segment each time. Yes, that mouse house's I love the murals at this rink the best so far out of 3200 rinks since I began in 2019. Cannot duplicate this ever again unless someone.. somewhere... Source: Woodland Roller Rink on Facebook.
Woodland Roller Rink 2100 28th Street SE, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Very unique design. Love the look. And the floor! Very interesting! Source: Woodland Roller Rink on Facebook.
Woodland Roller Rink 2100 28th Street SE, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Very unique design. Love the look. Very interesting! Source: Woodland Roller Rink on Facebook.
Woodland Roller Rink 2100 28th Street SE, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Very unique design. Love the look. Very interesting! Source: Woodland Roller Rink on Facebook.
Woodland Roller Rink 2100 28th Street SE, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Very unique design. Love the look. And the floor! Very interesting! One of the best design ever. Source: Woodland Roller Rink on Facebook.
Woodland Roller Rink 2100 28th Street SE, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Very unique design. Love the look. And the floor! Very interesting! Source: Woodland Roller Rink on Facebook.
Woodland Roller Rink 2100 28th Street SE, Grand Rapids, Michigan. The appearance as Sports Center. Source: Google.
Woodland Roller Rink 2100 28th Street SE, Grand Rapids, Michigan. The exterior property now as MSA Woodland. They only kept the name, Woodland as only thing left of the rink. That is too bad that they did not keep the rink. One might suspect. They had plenty of room to keep the rink and add other activities as well. Could have used basketball courts there on the rink when skating is not at use. They could have learned from Sports-O-Rama's lesson that it became more than just roller rink. They had two courts on the rink. Source: Google.
Woodland Roller Rink 2100 28th Street SE, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Source: YouTube video courtesy of lurvener. Two guys doing rhythmic skating together.
Woodland Roller Rink 2100 28th Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI
Woodland Roller Rink 2100 28th Street SE, Grand Rapids, Michigan was a roller rink at one time.
This rink was operational before it became other sports/recreational center. It had nice creative and colorful retro interior design. Big and bold waving stripes on the wall with very realistic murals of 1950s skaters who were in couple figure skating and some single figure skating It also had colorful laminated tiles on the floor, colorful square light boxes for each letter for SNACK BAR. Colorful checkered walls in snack bar area. And more. It was very bold look. It look classical for recent times by the time they closed for good in April 2016 after it ran for 48 years. It was opened in 1969 by Roger and Alyce Roodvoets.
By the look of ceiling, it was Gabled roof building, and the floor was plain concrete floor. Not painted! However, it was a special coating though. It appeared classical 1950s concrete floor with speckles on the surface. I could not tell because of the photographs. Anyone can tell me? No White or Sky Blue polyurethane coat at all. Just plain concrete. The light decor theme was very interesting. It had bunch of Christmas-themed white lights hanging from the ceiling. It looked more like a frosted icicle theme lights hanging. I never been to this rink however, I can tell you by the look of the lights can bring a certain good mood. while it was not Christmas-y. It was more of.. "night-out-in-the-town" with more formal feel to it. This ownership did excellent job in creativity and should be tops along with a few rinks that were closed or still in operational for excellency in creative interior design. As a Designer myself, I understood things like this.
The theme in there was more for all ages, not geared for children. It was a good mix and it was more toward adultish or young people rather than for children.
I do not have any open date for this rink. However, just facebook. It has a great number of photographs for you to view there. Hopefully it stays on there. Because the website of theirs is down and I did find the link and it went right to a entirely different website with that same web address. It is now some interior design firm or something like that. It is terrible other businesses steal website addresses instead of making their own.
It was in April 2016 it was sold to that sports complex which eliminated skating and put in indoor football (soccer), basketball courts, and volleyball courts. And said they are adding other outdoors activities to its massive 10 acres property.
Interior:
They had Concrete with Terrazzo floor with special coating that it appeared to be 1950s style. The murals.. You have to see the photos as it is self described. Very bold design with thick lines and curves with circles with skaters skating in it. Very realistic painting that would rival Bob Ross, Leonardo DaVinci, Rembrandt, and others.
Exterior:
Rink Size: N/A Floor: Concrete. Special coating looks 1950s style floor Floor Layout: Standard
Building Size: 105,00 SF Built: N/A Renovation: N/A. Demolished: N/A.
Type of Building: Gable Free - Span Steel Trusses Cinderblocks - Walled Warehouse like Building.
Roof: Gabled.
Acres: 10.0000 AC.
Operated: 1969 to April 17, 2016.
Reason for Closure: N/A
Wanted: Information regarding exact date of opening, reason why closed, rink size, what material was that on the rink?
Sources:
Facebook
defunct website
MLive e-newspaper
MLive (2),
Date of issue: 2019. Updated: 10 December 2021.
For office use only:
© Dead Rinks. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:3-17.
This rink was operational before it became other sports/recreational center. It had nice creative and colorful retro interior design. Big and bold waving stripes on the wall with very realistic murals of 1950s skaters who were in couple figure skating and some single figure skating It also had colorful laminated tiles on the floor, colorful square light boxes for each letter for SNACK BAR. Colorful checkered walls in snack bar area. And more. It was very bold look. It look classical for recent times by the time they closed for good in April 2016 after it ran for 48 years. It was opened in 1969 by Roger and Alyce Roodvoets.
By the look of ceiling, it was Gabled roof building, and the floor was plain concrete floor. Not painted! However, it was a special coating though. It appeared classical 1950s concrete floor with speckles on the surface. I could not tell because of the photographs. Anyone can tell me? No White or Sky Blue polyurethane coat at all. Just plain concrete. The light decor theme was very interesting. It had bunch of Christmas-themed white lights hanging from the ceiling. It looked more like a frosted icicle theme lights hanging. I never been to this rink however, I can tell you by the look of the lights can bring a certain good mood. while it was not Christmas-y. It was more of.. "night-out-in-the-town" with more formal feel to it. This ownership did excellent job in creativity and should be tops along with a few rinks that were closed or still in operational for excellency in creative interior design. As a Designer myself, I understood things like this.
The theme in there was more for all ages, not geared for children. It was a good mix and it was more toward adultish or young people rather than for children.
I do not have any open date for this rink. However, just facebook. It has a great number of photographs for you to view there. Hopefully it stays on there. Because the website of theirs is down and I did find the link and it went right to a entirely different website with that same web address. It is now some interior design firm or something like that. It is terrible other businesses steal website addresses instead of making their own.
It was in April 2016 it was sold to that sports complex which eliminated skating and put in indoor football (soccer), basketball courts, and volleyball courts. And said they are adding other outdoors activities to its massive 10 acres property.
Interior:
They had Concrete with Terrazzo floor with special coating that it appeared to be 1950s style. The murals.. You have to see the photos as it is self described. Very bold design with thick lines and curves with circles with skaters skating in it. Very realistic painting that would rival Bob Ross, Leonardo DaVinci, Rembrandt, and others.
Exterior:
Rink Size: N/A Floor: Concrete. Special coating looks 1950s style floor Floor Layout: Standard
Building Size: 105,00 SF Built: N/A Renovation: N/A. Demolished: N/A.
Type of Building: Gable Free - Span Steel Trusses Cinderblocks - Walled Warehouse like Building.
Roof: Gabled.
Acres: 10.0000 AC.
Operated: 1969 to April 17, 2016.
Reason for Closure: N/A
Wanted: Information regarding exact date of opening, reason why closed, rink size, what material was that on the rink?
Sources:
defunct website
MLive e-newspaper
MLive (2),
Date of issue: 2019. Updated: 10 December 2021.
For office use only:
© Dead Rinks. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:3-17.