Jacksonville Ice & Sportsplex

Jacksonville Ice & Sportsplex is the former name of the ice rink at 3605 Philips Highway. An earlier Places dump was unconfident and left the Google object empty, offering Community First Igloo at the same address as an alternate. That is not a random rink. The Jacksonville Daily Record reported on August 2, 2021, that Community First Credit Union announced a 10-year naming-rights deal and that the redeveloped Sportsplex would be called the Community First Igloo. Icemen majority owner Andy Kaufmann’s JICE LLC had bought the building on March 15, 2021, for $6 million. City Council had already approved a loan and completion grant for the renovation. The Daily Record’s December 2, 2021, follow-up said the city permitted a $10.6 million conversion to two NHL-size rinks, a restaurant, locker rooms, and team offices at Interstate 95 and Emerson Street, in the San Marco East / Philips Highway corridor this directory still files as Southside. Wikipedia’s Community First Igloo entry lists former names Jacksonville Ice & Sportsplex and Skate World at 3605 Philips Highway. Visit Jacksonville’s directory now uses the Igloo name and describes two regulation sheets, a sports bar, an esports room, a pro shop, Icemen offices, and the Jacksonville Sports Hall of Fame. Google’s operational listing for Community First Igloo is 4.2 from 907 reviews. Stay Safe Jax attaches that snapshot as the current public score for this slug. A 4.2 from hundreds of reviews is mixed-positive: public skating, youth hockey, and the two-rink rebuild get praise; busy sessions and parking get ordinary complaints. No Yelp card is stored. The Places dump did not include hours; Visit Jacksonville’s event pages have advertised specific public-skate promotions. Confirm session times before you go. Accessibility fields were not on the unconfident dump object. A June 2023 grand-opening notice described the renovated building as the Jacksonville Icemen’s practice home, with Icebreakers Bar & Grill and learn-to-skate programs. That is a sourced rebrand, not a closure. Open flags stay at 0. Families searching “Jacksonville Ice & Sportsplex” should treat this listing as the same Philips Highway rink under the Community First Igloo name, stored Google 4.2. It is not VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena, where the Icemen play games.