LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - A southwest Lancaster City warehouse — vacant for decades and tucked away on a side street — will get a new life as an indoor paintball arena.
The building, at 10 W. Andrew St., just off South Queen Street, will open Nov. 1 as the home of Red Rose Paintball. Owner Kevin Weems said the action will be kept quietly behind closed doors.

The warehouse, part of the former Queen Dairy complex, is open and empty, said Weems, a businessman who also owns the Lancaster Door Service, a residential and commercial garage door service.

He hopes to tap a growing interest in the game, where competitors with compressed-air guns, or markers, shoot balls of gel paint at each other. Paintball teams have formed leagues and travel to different venues for competitions. There is an existing indoor paintball facility in a former factory in Manheim, and at least two other outdoor paintball sites in Conestoga and Quarryville.

Weems, of East Lampeter Township, hopes paintball players will come from those sites and Harrisburg, Reading and elsewhere for organized three-on-three and five-on-five competitions.

Weems received zoning approval for the operation Monday evening from the city Zoning Hearing Board. No one spoke in opposition to his plans. The only condition set by the board was to limit Weems’ hours of operation from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily, said Walter Siderio, city zoning officer.

Weems said the sport is all new to him.

“I have never played paintball in my life,” he admitted. It was the interest in the game that he has heard from others that got his attention, he said.



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Well, he now has himself a decent location for a business. But not playing paintball himself? There is only one thing he needs to do, and that is hire someone who loves the sport and knows what they are doing to build up this field.
I've seen businesses run by people who don't really play, and it doesn't end up pretty.

My Fast likes to shoot people!
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