"I had the pleasure of riding this one this weekend. I also got to meet Geth & Stephanie. The local skaters asked AS to make the street course to have more tranny, so they did. They actually dont refer to it as street, rather "the other part".

The 'dance floor' flat area between the sections is actually the foundation of an old warehouse or something. The skate areas are above ground with backfill. The square ledge thingy by the bowl is actually leftover from the scale in the warehouse - thats why it is where it is.

The 3' mega-mini was a last minute additon - and yes it gets skated constantly.

I noticed the bowl has a LC1 shape - Wotjon confirmed this. "There is nothing wrong with having more LC's out there" he says. (I think he's on to something there). Where the shallow is, this one has a 3.5' oververt pocket a w/stamped tile finish - super fun.

There is a section of steel coping that is all rough and gnarly. It is on the wall opposing the head of the spine. Mark says that it just happened to be that way, so they wanted to put it somewhere gnarly, and that wall is pretty tight. It makes a concrete type of noise when you grind it, but is steel. Pretty cool.

Total expendature is around 225k. Local community service labor was used for part of the backfill. I spoke with one of the guys who helped with that, and he had a geniune sense of ownership from his efforts. Also, some kids got busted writing thier names in the wet crete - they had to work on it as well.

I spoke with the mayor for a moment - she was fully stoked on the whole thing. I assured her that she made great decisions on this project - she liked that feedback a great deal. Nice lady. "

Chad Balcom
Regional Director, Northwest
Skaters for Public Skateparks