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You are here:. Public Skating Sessions. As such, the attraction — rebranded Holiday Ice — was moved to the parking lot at Columbiana Centre, the mall on Harbison Boulevard. It operated there from Thanksgiving weekend until early January. Multiple sources, including Wilson and City Councilman Howard Duvall, said the ice skating attraction simply didn't click at the mall the same way it did when it was located in the city center. Free Times has sent a Freedom of Information Act request to the city for attendance and expenses at the rink.
Obviously the original location [at Boyd Plaza] is no longer available. So, we are going to have to keep searching until we find another spot that works.
With the activity downtown during the holidays, it just seems to work best there. Mayor Steve Benjamin says he thinks the city's ice rink could make a comeback in years down the road.
The newly renovated Boyd Plaza is amazing, though, and I wouldn't trade it for anything. Wilson says, along with attendance being lower at the Harbison location last year, there were other aspects that made it a bit more difficult for the city. We wanted to to do something that was on the perimeter, but still in the city limits, so that was a great spot.
But, it also required a lot more infrastructure and safety protocols we had to invest in out there. Also, working with the mall — and they were great to work with — the traffic patterns out there were different. There were just a lot of other things we had to consider. Skaters attend a minute lesson for seven weeks. Free skate rental is included. Figure skaters can focus on their flip jumps or sharpen their salchows during Freestyle Skating sessions.
Each session is minutes long, and you can bring your own music to play on the Columbia Ice Rink sound system as you practice your routine.
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