The Powhatan Ice Den project under construction March 23. The skating rink will be 12,800 square feet. (Jack Jacobs photos)
Editor’s note: This story has been updated with additional information.
Not far from a new Grateful Dead-themed brewery, a chilly new development is underway in Powhatan County.
An ice skating facility dubbed the Powhatan Ice Den is under construction at 1580 Oakbridge Terrace, within the Oakbridge Business Park. The rink is expected to be 12,800 square feet in a one-story building, according to a site plan filed to Powhatan County.
The Ice Den is being built on a 5-acre property owned by Lilrink2 LLC, which purchased the site for $450,000 in December from Oakbridge Corp., according to the Powhatan Commissioner of the Revenue’s office.
The registered agent for the LLC declined to comment and said he referred BizSense’s inquiry to the owner, who he would not identify. That request received no response as of press time.
The LLC’s listed mailing address is tied to its accounting firm Hortenstine and McCown. A message left for Daniel McCown wasn’t returned.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported earlier this month that Fred Festa, a retired chemicals executive, is behind an ice rink “in Powhatan, near the industrial park,” that is expected to open in September. However, it isn’t clear from that report whether it is the same project.
Festa owned the AA East Coast Hockey League’s Greenville Swamp Rabbits from 2012 to 2018, and had expressed interest in launching a Richmond hockey as part of the Navy Hill project that City Council voted down in early 2020.
The Times-Dispatch report also states that Festa is working with Brad Robinson, owner of the Richmond region’s other two ice rinks, SkateNation Plus in Short Pump and Richmond Ice Zone in Chesterfield.
The Powhatan Ice Den is taking shape in the Oakbridge Business Park.
Mark Sowers of Oakbridge Corp. declined to comment. Other efforts to determine the identity of the LLC’s owner were unsuccessful.
EDC is the project’s general contractor. Townes Site Engineering is the engineer, according to the plans filed with the county.
The Powhatan rink, which is near the county’s border with the Midlothian area of Chesterfield County, is also near Crazy Rooster Brewing Co., which opened last year. Just over the county line, Windy Hill Sports Complex in Chesterfield is under new ownership.
The Powhatan Ice Den project under construction March 23. The skating rink will be 12,800 square feet. (Jack Jacobs photos)
Editor’s note: This story has been updated with additional information.
Not far from a new Grateful Dead-themed brewery, a chilly new development is underway in Powhatan County.
An ice skating facility dubbed the Powhatan Ice Den is under construction at 1580 Oakbridge Terrace, within the Oakbridge Business Park. The rink is expected to be 12,800 square feet in a one-story building, according to a site plan filed to Powhatan County.
The Ice Den is being built on a 5-acre property owned by Lilrink2 LLC, which purchased the site for $450,000 in December from Oakbridge Corp., according to the Powhatan Commissioner of the Revenue’s office.
The registered agent for the LLC declined to comment and said he referred BizSense’s inquiry to the owner, who he would not identify. That request received no response as of press time.
The LLC’s listed mailing address is tied to its accounting firm Hortenstine and McCown. A message left for Daniel McCown wasn’t returned.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported earlier this month that Fred Festa, a retired chemicals executive, is behind an ice rink “in Powhatan, near the industrial park,” that is expected to open in September. However, it isn’t clear from that report whether it is the same project.
Festa owned the AA East Coast Hockey League’s Greenville Swamp Rabbits from 2012 to 2018, and had expressed interest in launching a Richmond hockey as part of the Navy Hill project that City Council voted down in early 2020.
The Times-Dispatch report also states that Festa is working with Brad Robinson, owner of the Richmond region’s other two ice rinks, SkateNation Plus in Short Pump and Richmond Ice Zone in Chesterfield.
The Powhatan Ice Den is taking shape in the Oakbridge Business Park.
Mark Sowers of Oakbridge Corp. declined to comment. Other efforts to determine the identity of the LLC’s owner were unsuccessful.
EDC is the project’s general contractor. Townes Site Engineering is the engineer, according to the plans filed with the county.
The Powhatan rink, which is near the county’s border with the Midlothian area of Chesterfield County, is also near Crazy Rooster Brewing Co., which opened last year. Just over the county line, Windy Hill Sports Complex in Chesterfield is under new ownership.
I heard it would be a half sheet…
Lil Rink used to be where BRVA Soccer is now. I’m not sure when they closed, but I imagine it’s the same owners.
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Funny I think RTD ran article on this a couple of week ago. It said “Meanwhile, (Fred) Festa is building a rink in the $2-to-$3 million range in Powhatan, near the industrial park. It is expected to open in September and will be used primarily for bantam youth hockey. The program will be operated in partnership with Brad Robinson, who owns Skate Nation Plus in Short Pump and Richmond Ice Zone near Johnston-Willis Hospital in Chesterfield County. Resta also plans to use the new rink as a practice facility for his professional team — when and if.”
I wish it were a roller rink instead. My daughter and I were just talking about the only roller rinks are such a long trek away and we miss the good family fun and derby league it brings about. An indoor/outdoor rink with attached bmx bike and skateboard ramp park and skate and bike store would be something that the entire RVA region has never seen and would bring the community together. I can think of no better place than Powhatan for good family fun.
This is the strangest thing I have seen them add to Powhatan but it’s nice to add more fun things to the county but I really miss the old days with Rollo Ramara Roller skating Ring behind the Dominion Power Offices.
More fun in Powhatan! Welcome to the neighborhood.