Comments on: 10 Things to Make a Skatepark Great http://www.imaginechimbo.org/10-things-to-make-a-skatepark-great Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:50:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Bean Weatherford http://www.imaginechimbo.org/10-things-to-make-a-skatepark-great/comment-page-1#comment-275 Bean Weatherford Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:12:12 +0000 http://www.imaginechimbo.org/?p=222#comment-275 It is absurd that Richmond doesn't have a skatepark. Yesterday at Chimborazo there were thirty to forty people skateboarding. The skateparks around Richmond, Polgreen in Mechanicsville and Laurel in Glen Allen are about twenty years old now and are terrible. The ramps at both parks are pretty much unskateable and to point out the obvious the aren't in Richmond. I live in Oregon Hill, my neighborhood as well as the Fan are full of Skateboarders many who are VCU students. VCU police are cracking down on skateboarding, but there is simply no legal, as well as public place to skateboard, other than Chimborozo. If a skatepark is in the works for Chimborozo, that is great news. I don't know if it is the best location (considering the large amount of skateboarders in the VCU area) but I, and many other skateboarders in town) will take it. I think a good example of a skatepark Richnmond should take a look at is the park in Durham, NC that opened recently, it is a great concrete skate park the kind of park Richmond deserves to have. I'm interested in doing anything I can to help Richmond obtain a great concrete skatepark and many thanks to the residents of Church Hill and the friends of Chimborozo Playground for giving us a place to skate. It is absurd that Richmond doesn’t have a skatepark. Yesterday at Chimborazo there were thirty to forty people skateboarding. The skateparks around Richmond, Polgreen in Mechanicsville and Laurel in Glen Allen are about twenty years old now and are terrible. The ramps at both parks are pretty much unskateable and to point out the obvious the aren’t in Richmond. I live in Oregon Hill, my neighborhood as well as the Fan are full of Skateboarders many who are VCU students. VCU police are cracking down on skateboarding, but there is simply no legal, as well as public place to skateboard, other than Chimborozo. If a skatepark is in the works for Chimborozo, that is great news. I don’t know if it is the best location (considering the large amount of skateboarders in the VCU area) but I, and many other skateboarders in town) will take it. I think a good example of a skatepark Richnmond should take a look at is the park in Durham, NC that opened recently, it is a great concrete skate park the kind of park Richmond deserves to have. I’m interested in doing anything I can to help Richmond obtain a great concrete skatepark and many thanks to the residents of Church Hill and the friends of Chimborozo Playground for giving us a place to skate.

]]> By: Brandon Ellis http://www.imaginechimbo.org/10-things-to-make-a-skatepark-great/comment-page-1#comment-269 Brandon Ellis Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:12:53 +0000 http://www.imaginechimbo.org/?p=222#comment-269 From a press release by the Tony Hawk Foundation: <q cite="http://tonyhawkfoundation.org/content/list/20100209/index.html">Conducted by the Tony Hawk Foundation in 2009, over 100 officers were interviewed from communities where the Foundation has contributed to establishing a free, public skatepark. <em>Ninety percent responded favorably</em> when asked if they considered their skatepark an important community asset.</q> press release here: http://tonyhawkfoundation.org/content/list/20100209/index.html From a press release by the Tony Hawk Foundation:
Conducted by the Tony Hawk Foundation in 2009, over 100 officers were interviewed from communities where the Foundation has contributed to establishing a free, public skatepark. Ninety percent responded favorably when asked if they considered their skatepark an important community asset.

press release here: http://tonyhawkfoundation.org/content/list/20100209/index.html

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