Ion Training Center - Leesburg

[Anonymous]

Is anyone else following this story?

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/northern-virginia/families-upset-about-closing-of-ice-rink-in-leesburg/3841181/
Parents in Northern Virginia are upset that their ice rink is closing to become an entertainment venue and convention hall.

Ion International Training Center is a massive, two-rink ice skating and ice hockey facility. It serves hundreds of young figure skaters and the Loudoun Knights hockey club, but the owners announced they will melt the ice and renovate the facility.

"I have an obligation to my investors, I have an obligation to my employees, I have to make everybody happy, and sometimes you just can't do that and you have to follow the numbers, as much as it breaks my heart," owner Mitra Setayesh said.

[Anonymous]

Apparent the owners managed it so poorly that they let the whole facility fall into disrepair. Same thing will happen with the art center and they will just demolish it for a data center in a few years.