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By Marcus G. Tiggs Special to the Observer Unless one has been hiding under a rock over the last month, Culver City Ice Arena is still temporarily shut down or to the dismay of its thousands of fans, maybe permanently? As of last week there was what appeared to be a city imposed gag-order for any official to comment on the negotiations between the city, the landowner and presumptive a new operator to lift the yellow tag on the building for the rink to re-open. The official position of the city...
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is Part 2 of a series) By Marcus G. Tiggs Special to the Observer After over two weeks the closing of Culver Ice Arena has not ended the Culver Ice dilemma (or better called "cliff hanger"). At this point it seems the optimistic tide may be overcoming the pragmatist commentaries. Planet Granite fell off the cliff when it announced in a press release last week, "we decided to cancel our lease for the Culver City location". Planet Granite's departure from Culver City came as n...
By Marcus Tiggs Special to the Observer Over the last couple of months the media/public has been in a frenzy over the Culver City Ice Arena story or better described as saga. The latest turn was at Monday's City Council meeting, where it looked like there would be a six month re-opening after an 11th hour interim deal was reached with the landowner (Mike Karagozian) and the a few rink employees (the Takahashi family), only to be doused by the Fire Chef and company revealing a sincere and...
