HOUSTON (KTRK) -- In a city where below freezing temperatures are the exception rather than the rule, finding a place to participate in winter activities in the Houston area can be tough. Sadly, there will soon be one less place you can go.



Kim Mayorga has two children who skate at Space City Ice Station. One's on a hockey team and the other is a seven-year-old figure skater.



"My daughter has been doing this since she was three," she said. "She saw it on TV and has been doing it ever since."



But her days of skating at Space City Ice Station are numbered. The owners sold the property to a car dealership next to the rink.



Roland Nedelkovich is a hockey parent himself. He and a few other dads saved the rink from going under 10 years ago. Keeping up the rink became too much to handle.



"We know what an impact this is and we know how devastated people are," Nedelkovich said. "If there was anything we could do, we would have. This is what we have to do. I feel terrible about it."



Mayorga had to break the news to her daughter, who now wonders where she'll skate, without an ice rink closer than an hour's drive.



The car dealership buying the property is owned by a company called Group 1. They say they are not in the business of operating ice rinks. An attorney for Group 1 said that although he can't say for sure the ice rink will be closed, the company will use the property for purposes consistent with a car dealership -- meaning parking, collision repair and the like.