Three seventh-graders got plans rolling for a new skate park in southeast Denver.
Ryder Perry , Brek Price and Porter Sturno would like to see a skate park in southeast Denver.— seventh-graders who live in the Wellshire neighborhood — met with Denver City Councilwomanat her office next to Southmoor Park to talk about their favorite activity: skateboarding.
The boys pitched Black on their idea of establishing a skate park in James A. Bible Park, which is located just east of Interstate 25 and north of East Hampden Avenue.“I said, ‘Well, there might be a better place, because with climate change and the heat island we are experiencing in Denver, we don’t want to get rid of vegetation,’” Black recalls.
By the 1960s, skateboarding had spread across the country as magazines devoted to the sport began popping up and technology advanced. In the 1970s, skateboard manufacturers really got things moving with polyurethane wheels. “Skate parks just dwindled in popularity, here and in California," he continues,"mainly because the insurance rates were high and you just couldn't make enough money to pay it.”
“What precipitated all the interest was that a bunch of kids, mostly skaters, were getting ticketed for skating on the 16th Street Mall,” says Dean Pearson, founder ofThe city hired Pearson to work on a public skate park for Denver. Pearson brought together local skaters to workshop ideas for what type of park they might want. “We basically said no idea is stupid or too crazy,” he recalls. “The energy was pretty amazing.
“I felt like Denver, even though it was sort of a struggle because it was slippery and we had a lot of people around and our vert demo was in a bowl, it was still good riding all around,” Hawk said after the event. Another one of the skaters on the tour called it a “great cement park.” "That’s the one great thing about skate parks, is you can go and skate and not worry about security or private property that you have to worry about when you’re street skating," says Sedillo, who supports putting a park in southeast Denver.
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