Excerpts from article in the Colorado Springs "Independent" 10/28/2009 Sub-titled - A place to skateboard - Memorial Park Skateboard Park.

As with many public projects, this may have been the hardest part: getting the need recognized. Jeff Haley, landscape architect for the city's department of parks, recreation and cultural services, says the skating demographic is one that often goes unnoticed by government agencies, and yet represents a huge population.

"When you look at statistics," he says, "more kids ride skateboards than play baseball or other organized team sports, because really, when you think about it, you go buy a skateboard and just go out to the curb and start going. ... It's really accessible."

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40,000 sq. ft.      just under $1 million      Builder -Team Pain

I put this post up because I saw a parallel.  Over the last several yearswe have held over 20 skate jam events. And contrary to some of the stereotypesthat people will tend to believe about skateboarding or skateparks, our eventshave simply been lots of kids being active andhaving fun.

Help us build a place for kids to skate.

The éS Game of Skate contest tour hits Wilmington, DE this Monday, August 3rd at Frawley Stadium (801 Shipyard Drive, Wilm. De).  Registration starts at 2pm, with the contest getting under way at 3 pm.  Official éS Game of Skate winners from across the U. S. will be flown to California for the Amateur World Championships. Presented by és, Kinetic Skate shop, the City of Wilmington and the Wilmington Skate Project.  For more information,  please call Kinetic at 302-477-1533.

The Upward Bound Program at Delaware Technical & Community College, a pre-college youth program have volunteered to help us out for a day. This is scheduled for Wed. July, 22nd. from 1 to 3. The young folks will be cleaning the grounds at the site of the future skate plaza and also communicating awareness about the project along the Riverfront.

 BUILDING COMMUNITY!

Skate Jam, Sunday June 21st at 10th Street between Shipley and Market. Noon to 5.

(weather permitting) 

DC Shoes and Kinetic Skateboarding will be sponsoring the skatejam at the Wilmington Gran Prix, Saturday, May 16th.

We'll be set up at 10th and Market Street. Ramps will be set up from 10:00 a.m.  to 5:00 p.m. (Skateboarding will be allowed weather permitting)

At 2:30 DC Shoes will sponsor a highest Ollie contest.  

As part of its continuing efforts to raise money for a world class skateboarding park, the Wilmington Skate Project (WSP) enlisted two students from the Delaware College of Art and Design (DCAD) to help create a billboard at the site of the future skate plaza in Wilmington.

Saturday Nov. 1st.

Come down to 7th and Market streets for the Tricks for Treats Skate Jam at the Downtown Fall Fest!