ANOTHER CLIMBING GYM
IN FAYETTEVILLE?

Arena houses complex for recreational sports. Cumberland County’s old arena, a building once headed for demolition, has found new life as a sports complex.

With the hockey season over in the Crown Coliseum, the ice skating lessons that kids have been clamoring for will move from the Crown to the arena until August.

By no later than January, the arena will be converted a second time.

Sportszone of Fayetteville Inc. signed a lease Thursday May 7, 1998 for the building. The business will use the arena for an indoor athletic center offering soccer, basketball, roller hockey and rock climbing.

Sportszone will have to pack up at times and make room for community events traditionally held in the arena.

Sportszone will pay $250 a day for the arena. It leased the building for a minimum of 180 days in 1998, generating at least $45,000 for the county. The county will run the concessions and keep all the proceeds from the sales. The county will pay the utilities for the building. I'll try to keep you up-to-date on this as information becomes available.