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# Letter: Why not put the skating rink on the Santa Monica Pier?
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/lloyd-garver-send-comments-to-editor-smdp-com-modern-times-city-iced-plans-for-pier-attraction-editor/
- Published: 2007-12-08T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T04:19:41.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Pier, #archive-import

*By G. Woods Santa Monica*

The skating rink in Santa Monica is a wonderful addition to this great city, but why is not on our fabulous Santa Monica Pier? It seems a no-brainer — plenty of parking and existing food concessions without the need to bring in a Santa Barbara-based food concession. Why can’t the rink help local business? In addition, this is the time of year when the pier needs promotion. What a great venue and attraction that would be!

The Santa Monica Pier tried for several years to get a skating rink up there and rumor has it that the city was the stumbling block because of excessive rent, for a corner of the pier parking lot, required of the promoters. Now again, rumor has it, the city donated this current parking lot rent-free to accommodate the skating rink.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on December 8, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/120807.pdf?ref=smdp.com)