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It grew into a space where the community gathered for birthdays, proms, family reunions and other events.\n\u201cWe just tried to make everybody feel welcome and have a piece of our entertainment there,\u201d Taylor said. \u201cWe literally built a skatehouse for everybody, and at that time that wasn\u2019t necessarily (how) everybody else ran their business, but we tried to promote skating to everybody.\u201d\nJordan Vernon, Taylor\u2019s first cousin who also learned to skate at the rink, said he spent much of his childhood at Skate Zone.\nVernon said he remembers the nights of all-night skating and games of tag he and his friends used to play at the rink and will always treasure those memories.\n\u201cWhen I was a kid \u2026 this place would be so packed you couldn\u2019t even skate half the time,\u201d Vernon said. \u201cIt would just be like we\u2019d all be bunched up together, and now ever since, like video games and just digital movies and stuff have come out, it\u2019s definitely declined.\u201d\nEven though it won\u2019t be exactly the same, Taylor hopes to keep some of that Skate Zone magic alive when the building reopens as D-BAT Baseball and Softball Academy in December.\n\u201cI hope some of our customers will transition over; baseball and softball (are) in a growth mode, and all my grandkids are real big into the sports and stuff,\u201d Taylor said. \u201c\u2026 So we\u2019re hoping that we can keep our story going with that.\u201d\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n      \n      \n        Quality, in-depth journalism is essential to a healthy community. 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