Article: Three indoor soccer centers opened within a year, but only one remains.

Byline: Sarah Toland

May 16--What allows one business to survive but another to fail is as multi-sided as a soccer ball.

Nevertheless, Boulder Indoor Soccer, now Boulder County's only indoor soccer facility, continues to succeed, despite the fact two other area soccer centers have closed during the last year.

Both Gunbarrel's Off the Boards, which closed in May 2004, and the Longmont Sports Warehouse, which shut down just a few months ago, originally opened within months of Boulder Indoor Soccer's launch in September 2003.

"We've survived somehow, and I think we survive because we're soccer people," says Rodrigo Garcia, principal owner ...

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