Orlando Solar Bears facility officially coming to Winter Garden

WINTER GARDEN — It’s official.

The Orlando Solar Bears are making a second home in Winter Garden.

The Orlando Solar Bears, professional hockey team in the East Coast Hockey League and an affiliate of the NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs, announced Jan. 21 it will be breaking ground on a 125,000-square-foot hockey and training facility in Winter Garden next month and that the multi-purpose community center will be called the Orlando Hockey Center.

The facility will include two sheets of ice and will be located on East Crown Point Road off the Plant Street exit from State Road 429 on 16 acres of land. 

The team announced it will continue to play its home games in downtown Orlando at the Amway Center but will move its practices, locker room facilities and offices to the new location in Winter Garden.

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