Virginia
September 12th, 2006, 01:56 PM
About us: We bought a dilapidated 110- year old building from Erie County Foreclosure Auction in 1999. Since then we have taken this tired old building and invested all our life savings and then some into renovating the facility for modern reuse.
Housed inside our building is our unique business, Xtreme Wheels Indoor Skate Park. Our 30,000 sq. ft. facility offers ramps and rails for inline skating, skateboarding, BMX bikes, and scooters. We also offer concessions, have a retail center, video arcade, are the area’s largest all ages concert venue. There is not another business of this nature in over a 100- mile radius. In establishing our park, we provide a safe, supervised, drug and alcohol free facility for our members. We are definitely not your ordinary youth oriented sports complex. Located on Hertel Avenue, we are within close proximity of the Peace Bridge and have hundreds of Canadian members amongst our current membership base.
Not only do we provide an amazing sports experience here, I plan community service activities and encourage our park members to participate and to learn the value of offering help to those less fortunate. Such community service activities have included: Erie County Youth Day with the Department of Social Services, Northwest Buffalo Community Center Youth Program, Then Senator now Mayor Brown’s Annual Summer Reading Program, Food drives for The Pantry and the WNY Food Bank, Clothing drive for Hearts for the Homeless and the Buffalo City Mission, Operation Safe Child, new books with handmade bookmarks donated to Women and Children’s Hospital at Christmas, Music is Art Foundation Battle of the Bands, co sponsor for the Vive La Casa Refugee House Benefit, co sponsor of Both Your Hands Club to benefit students in Kenya, gift certificate donations to Promise House, and more. We have just partnered with 2 Smart to Start anti smoking program targeted to youths.
I also regularly plan events and competitions for our kids to give them goals to achieve. We recently hosted a Scooter Comp where people attended from as far away as California and New Finland.
Special guests are part of the regular schedule of events. Skate teams such as 5 Boro, Triad Skateboards, Seed Skateboards, Kink BMX, Sunday Skate/BMX, Phatman Skate Team, Marble Skate Shop, Razor Scooter Team and others have performed. Extreme sports celebrities coming to XW include Dave Mirra, Jim Ceilencki, Lance Mountain, Duane Peters, Mike Vallely, Katie Ketchum, Willie Santos, Borsa Fernandez, Fabiola DaSilva, Carl Hills, and Apryl Woodcock, to mention a few. Even Dave Chappelle came to skateboard here.
Based on the community participation and our youth offerings I have spearheaded, I have been nominated and awarded with prestigious honors including: Entrepreneur of the Month Award for the City of Buffalo, Riverside Business Association Work Horse and Person of the Year Awards, Eckerd Salute to Women Award, several ATHENA Award nominations, several YWCA Leader Luncheon Awards and the YWCA Entrepreneur Award, Business First Women Who Mean Business Award, and Proclamation Day in the City of Buffalo.
I personally oversee the day- to- day operations. I work an average of 100 hours a week, only took off 4 days last year because we are closed on major holidays.
I am writing to you today to invite you to visit our facility and see for yourself the impact we have on our community and our children. To learn more about us, visit us online and see just how amazing our efforts are. Our web site is www.xtreme-wheels.com. I would like you to reach me directly please call 716-432-9286.
Yours truly,
Virginia Mazgajewski
Xtreme Wheels Indoor Skate Park
356 Hertel Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14207
716-871-9361
Housed inside our building is our unique business, Xtreme Wheels Indoor Skate Park. Our 30,000 sq. ft. facility offers ramps and rails for inline skating, skateboarding, BMX bikes, and scooters. We also offer concessions, have a retail center, video arcade, are the area’s largest all ages concert venue. There is not another business of this nature in over a 100- mile radius. In establishing our park, we provide a safe, supervised, drug and alcohol free facility for our members. We are definitely not your ordinary youth oriented sports complex. Located on Hertel Avenue, we are within close proximity of the Peace Bridge and have hundreds of Canadian members amongst our current membership base.
Not only do we provide an amazing sports experience here, I plan community service activities and encourage our park members to participate and to learn the value of offering help to those less fortunate. Such community service activities have included: Erie County Youth Day with the Department of Social Services, Northwest Buffalo Community Center Youth Program, Then Senator now Mayor Brown’s Annual Summer Reading Program, Food drives for The Pantry and the WNY Food Bank, Clothing drive for Hearts for the Homeless and the Buffalo City Mission, Operation Safe Child, new books with handmade bookmarks donated to Women and Children’s Hospital at Christmas, Music is Art Foundation Battle of the Bands, co sponsor for the Vive La Casa Refugee House Benefit, co sponsor of Both Your Hands Club to benefit students in Kenya, gift certificate donations to Promise House, and more. We have just partnered with 2 Smart to Start anti smoking program targeted to youths.
I also regularly plan events and competitions for our kids to give them goals to achieve. We recently hosted a Scooter Comp where people attended from as far away as California and New Finland.
Special guests are part of the regular schedule of events. Skate teams such as 5 Boro, Triad Skateboards, Seed Skateboards, Kink BMX, Sunday Skate/BMX, Phatman Skate Team, Marble Skate Shop, Razor Scooter Team and others have performed. Extreme sports celebrities coming to XW include Dave Mirra, Jim Ceilencki, Lance Mountain, Duane Peters, Mike Vallely, Katie Ketchum, Willie Santos, Borsa Fernandez, Fabiola DaSilva, Carl Hills, and Apryl Woodcock, to mention a few. Even Dave Chappelle came to skateboard here.
Based on the community participation and our youth offerings I have spearheaded, I have been nominated and awarded with prestigious honors including: Entrepreneur of the Month Award for the City of Buffalo, Riverside Business Association Work Horse and Person of the Year Awards, Eckerd Salute to Women Award, several ATHENA Award nominations, several YWCA Leader Luncheon Awards and the YWCA Entrepreneur Award, Business First Women Who Mean Business Award, and Proclamation Day in the City of Buffalo.
I personally oversee the day- to- day operations. I work an average of 100 hours a week, only took off 4 days last year because we are closed on major holidays.
I am writing to you today to invite you to visit our facility and see for yourself the impact we have on our community and our children. To learn more about us, visit us online and see just how amazing our efforts are. Our web site is www.xtreme-wheels.com. I would like you to reach me directly please call 716-432-9286.
Yours truly,
Virginia Mazgajewski
Xtreme Wheels Indoor Skate Park
356 Hertel Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14207
716-871-9361