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Skate Park Re-opening

The City celebrated the completion of the Beach Park Skate Park Expansion Project on Wednesday, November the 5th, 2008. Mayor Harvey L. Hall and Councilmember Sue Benham participated in the ribbon cutting along with Recreation and Parks Director Dianne Hoover and local skateboarders. Other City officials and staff were also present for the event.

History:  The original skate park opened in January 2000 consisting of approximately 14,200 square feet at a cost of approximately $150,000.  Similar to the original skate park design process, skaters participated in creating the final product. During preliminary design of the expansion, two local meetings were held to gather ideas and then incorporate into an ultimate wish list.  From this wish list of ideas, an estimated $600,000 project, skaters decided what features, size and number they desired that was within our budgetary constraints.  CWDG architects then turned the skater’s ideas into construction documents for the expansion.

Expansion:  Includes approximately 4,300 square feet and incorporates major features of a kidney shape bowl, 2, 3 and 8 step stair units, “bleachers”, “Hubba”, “Euro” box, flat and concave transitions between elevations creating banked ramps, a “grid-able” retaining wall.

As with the original skate park, the entire skate park is actually above grade, that is, everything is above the ground level of the park.  The bowl was created by digging into the Kern River levee side and placing the dirt from the hole creating the bowl on the outside edge of the eastern side of the bowl.

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