Over the past decade, the brothers and their team have invested in the community and the future of ice skating in Queenstown. I wanted the kids here to have the same experience and develop a connection to a special place.”
“Growing up playing street hockey at a local rink, those were the best times for me – an unforgettable part of my youth.
The ice rink was up for sale and Ted and I saw an opportunity – we agreed to work at the rink for a year and in 2010 we bought the business formally,” recalls Daniel. “I was working as a Forex broker in London, but my wife Lenka and I wanted to leave the hectic pace behind and start a family. Both ice hockey enthusiasts, they often joked about taking over and running the rink. “We feel that the town owes the previous owners a debt of gratitude for their foresight in constructing the rink almost 25 years ago.”ĭaniel and his brother Ted Graham often visited the ice rink in the early 2000s and Ted briefly worked there while on a break from law school. “The new rink was built at huge expense in 1995 by the previous ownership group and I don’t think the town would have an ice-skating facility had this investment not been made back then,” says Queenstown Ice Arena co-owner Daniel Graham.
It took until 1966 for the resort’s first artificial outdoor rink to be built on the current site, paving the way for the current facility after an investment of more than $4 million. In the early 1900s, ice skating enthusiasts in Queenstown got their fix by skating on the Queenstown Gardens’ pond when the ice was thick enough.
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