Iron Trail Motors Event Center

Iron Trail Motors Event Center
MECC
	Iron Trail Motors Event Center
Location	919 6th St S Virginia, Minnesota 55792
Public transit	Arrowhead Public Transportation
Owner	The City of Virginia
Operator	The City of Virginia
Capacity	2,000
Surface	Ice
Construction
Opened	2021
Construction cost	$26 Million
Tenants
	Rock Ridge Wolverines (2021–present)

Iron Trail Motors Event Center is an ice arena and Event Center is located in the city of Virginia, Minnesota. The Arena offers skating lessons, open skating and open hockey as well as a venue center for concerts and a ballroom for weddings.[1] The Arena is the home rink for the Rock Ridge Wolverines Hockey. The Rock Ridge Hockey Association coordinates the youth hockey program.

History

The Miners Memorial Building was originally built in 1957 and that arena was used for Virginia Blue Devils hockey until the 2020-2021 season and was demolished in 2021 after the last high school game in the Miners Virginia vs. their biggest rivals of the time Eveleth.[2] The two teams were rivals until the 2021 season when the two teams as the Rock Ridge Wolverines due to the new Rock Ridge High school and elementary schools being opened in 2022 (Elem.) and 2023 (HS).[3] The new Iron Trail Motors Event Center was originally going to be named Miners Event Convention Center (MECC) but Iron Trail Motors, a car dealership in Virginia off U.S. 53 bought stakes in the arena in summer 2021[4] and changed the name.

References

"Facilities | Iron Trail Motors Event Center". Retrieved 2021-09-03.
"Virginia/MIB Boys Hockey to Face Rivals Eveleth-Gilbert in Final Game at Miners Memorial Building". Fox21Online. 2021-03-20. Retrieved 2021-09-03.
"Schools". Rock Ridge Public Schools. Retrieved 2021-09-03.
July 16, Staff | on; 2021 (2021-07-16). "New event center to open in September | Hometown Focus | Northland news & stories". Hometown Focus. Retrieved 2021-09-03.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

External links

Official website

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[1] "Facilities | Iron Trail Motors Event Center". Retrieved 2021-09-03.

[2] "Virginia/MIB Boys Hockey to Face Rivals Eveleth-Gilbert in Final Game at Miners Memorial Building". Fox21Online. 2021-03-20. Retrieved 2021-09-03.

[3] "Schools". Rock Ridge Public Schools. Retrieved 2021-09-03.

[4] July 16, Staff | on; 2021 (2021-07-16). "New event center to open in September | Hometown Focus | Northland news & stories". Hometown Focus. Retrieved 2021-09-03.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)