After more than 40 years, the Patterson family is selling its South sound gem, Pattisons W, an indoor roller skating rink known for the Olympic speed. Skaters who trained there will soon have new owners. We want to keep patients is the way that it is. El Centro de La Raza is buying
It and several other pieces of land connected to the property. The rink sits between Pacific Highway and I5 in Federal Way. Estela Ortega is the executive director and one of the founders of El Centro. Let us uh, she says they will preserve the rink. I mean we may expand, you know,
By making it a little bit larger, but we do not especially want to change the roller rink area because you know Pat and the the patterns and family has told us is that that’s a very special floor. The organization whose name translates to the Center for People of All Races in English,
Opened an office in Federal Way in 2020 with hopes to expand and it has big plans to do that. We spoke to the patients and. Family and what their recommendations were and you know, they were you know you should enlarge the birthday area and you know the
Shoulders where we we could do that. It’s planning to do some renovations at the skate rink like updates to the interior work to the parking lot and a space where people can sell stuff like clothes and food. Kind of like a you know, a mini little Pikes market in
Federal Way outside the rink. It’s also planning to add a new three story Community Center artist Space A Youth Services. Center and across the street from the rank, it plans to build a new affordable housing development. The organization says one of its biggest goals is to continue to give
Youth a place to hang out and work in South King County. We have a commitment to keeping pattisons we think, you know, it’s there’s not a lot of activities for youth in South County. So having a roller rink and then the other thing that we think is extremely important that
It employs a lot of youth. It says it’s also keeping some of the people who already work there. And won’t be closing at all after the sale. We don’t plan to skip a beat. The organization says it will have to change the name, but isn’t sure what that will be yet.
The sale is expected to go through at the beginning of October.
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