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The WK4-Directions Skatepark originated as a DIY-wooden half-pipe located on a tennis court. Walter Pourier travelled to Pine Ridge and worked with students to repair the pipe. The following year, he brought in Grindline Skateparks, led by Mark Hubbard, who built a top-of-the-line skatepark at the location of the old wooden ramp. [6]
Mark Hubbard was working as a pool-building contractor. He helped with the construction of the Burnside Skatepark in Portland. Living in Seattle, he started to turn his friends' pools into half-pipes, and eventually created Grindline Skateparks [2] with cofounder Dave Palmer. [3]
The Skatepark Project, formerly the Tony Hawk Foundation, is a nonprofit skateboarding organization that helps communities build public skate parks for youth in underserved communities. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
In 1975 a group of students from Albany Senior High School formed a committee with the idea of building a skatepark. The group started fundraising and soon accumulated A$ 3,000. The Albany Town Council donated 3 acres (1 ha) of land that was once a gravel quarry and donated A$ 10,000 to the project.
Ultimately, the skatepark did not experience any loss of territory, just a loss of sunlight from the building blockage. The construction of the apartment complex obstructed sunlight from the skatepark, causing Burnside to be much darker during the day. To compensate for this, Yard's chief developer agreed to install lights for the skatepark. [5]
From the backyard bowls to the concrete plaza covered in graffiti, the landscapes of Venice, California were integral to the development of skateboarding. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Starting in the 2000s, a group of Venice locals, headed by Jesse Martinez, organized an effort to build the Venice Beach Skatepark.
The modern skatepark designs of the Pacific Northwest can be traced back to Burnside Skatepark, a DIY "barge build" beneath the Burnside Bridge in Portland, Oregon. Skateboarders used an area populated primarily by the city's "undesirable elements" to create a skatepark, building one section at a time.
Burnquist's home in Vista, California is home to his private skate park, Dreamland. The first build in his backyard skate park was a Wooden Vert Bowl (which was later concreted). This was followed by a metal full pipe, a loop with an opening gap in the roof (built for King of Skate 2002) [ 22 ] and a corkscrew.