Skaters now have a place to learn how to do a kickflip, rail slide, ollie and all those awesome tricks. The council has approved a new skate park near KeyArena to be completed in 2009.
This is great news for local skaters, following the last skate park in the area being sold off in 2005. The unanimous decision by the council board comes after two years of discussions with other tenants at the Seattle Center. The council displayed disapointment in the stereotypes surround skateparks and plans to send a message to the public with this recent discision, and plans to support this youth dominated sport, giving street skaters a place to skate without endangering the public.
Unfortunately the plans required the demolition of the Seattle Center Pavilion, causing problems for future events at the Seattle Center. The council has given the Seattle Center until october 15th to report back on the skate park, and where to movie the pavilion tenants.
All in all I think this is fantastic for Seattle Skaters - I can't wait to see the plans!
The full story can be found here. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003824805_skatepark07m.html
Sk8 on guys!
