Should Amherst privatize its Northtown Center ice rinks complex or expand it?
http://buffalonews.com/2017/02/14/de...ime=1487076245The four ice rinks of Northtown Center at Amherst either lose hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, or break even.
The facility's operating costs are covered by revenue, mainly from renting out ice time to hockey teams.
But it runs a deficit of about $800,000 due to debt service payments from when the complex was built in 1998 on Maple Road near the University at Buffalo.
That has Supervisor Barry A. Weinstein raising the prospect of turning the ice rinks over to private operators, like the town has done with other public facilities during his seven-year tenure. But, he acknowledges, it won't happen this year – the final year of his last term.