Mon 30 Oct 2006
Skaters and skateboard sympathizers living in Williamson County have the opportunity right now to help get a skatepark built in their area. Although it’s not mentioned on the Williamson County Bond website, there is $300,000 included in the Parks bond package for building a skatepark in their regional county park. Since Cedar Park bailed on building a skatepark due to oldsters complaining about teenagers invading their neighborhood parks, they kicked $125,000 to the county, which will boost the budget to $425,000 if voters approve this bond. Early voting is taking place now through Friday and all you have to do is show up at any Williamson County polling station with your drivers license if you’re a registered voter.
In the meantime, Williamson County resident, James Juneau, is leading a fact-finding expedition to the Cayman Islands where his team is exploring the Black Pearl Skatepark. Members of this expedition include his wife (Lisa), Kevin Strayhand, Rachel, Andy Mack, and Peyton. James has a fancy new video camera he’s planning to use for documenting their trip, so hopefully I’ll have some footage to post of this gargantuan piece of skate crete. No doubt he’ll come back with all kinds of ideas to throw at the Grindline crew building the Round Rock public skatepark. Word is that ground will break on that facility sometime in December. Skaters have also congregated as of late to provide more detailed input for the designers.
Here are some photos I shot a few months ago at Georgetown’s modular skatepark. It’s a roller-hockey rink with some chintzy Skatewave ramps. Last year they had some of the equipment stolen. What remains is somewhat falling apart. It’s located in a sports complex surrounded by empty baseball, soccer, and football fields complete with expensive lighting.
October 31st, 2006 at 6:36 am
i can’t wait to see how everything turns out with grindline’s park in RR!
October 31st, 2006 at 6:59 am
Yeah as long as they dont royally screw it up like that LAKEWAY incident!
November 1st, 2006 at 11:03 am
Yes I agree. Grindline must be stopped! This company has been, as you pointed out, “royally screwing up” all over the country! Sadly it’s not just Lakeway that has fallen victim to these fly by night skate park builders. Cities all over the country have put millions of dolars into the pockets of these crooks and it appears that they are poised to do even more damage to an already horrible situation.
I have actually been to several of Grindline’s parks and seen the appalling structures they leave behind firsthand. It’s truly shocking! I think the worst part is seeing what the kids are stuck with after Grindline leaves town. Even more heartbreaking is watching the kids that don’t know any better have a good time skating what they have. These kids don’t even realize that bowls are for old school kooks and that maybe this rail or bank dosen’t flow corecttly into the other parts of the park or (now sit down for this) there is no hubba ledge! Maybe a crusade can be waged to enlighten these poor kids and educate them as to whats fun/cool and whats not. If all else fails maybe playstation is an option. Skateboarding requires too much effort, is dangerous and is just a lot of work. The future looks grim.
P.S. Sorry I couldn’t find the sarcasm dripping off the letters font so just read this post in the tone a 14 year girl might have while bitching about not having enough minutes on her cell phone.
November 1st, 2006 at 2:04 pm
Are those photos of the proposed RR park? If so, when was this meeting?
November 2nd, 2006 at 4:20 am
you can go so fast at lakeway that it throws you out of the park. is that good or bad? any park is a good park just like every day skating is a good day. there seriously used to be nothing to skate but the sidewalk or a curb. How has skating survived as long as it already has if everything always has to suck so bad? It should not always be perfect terrain, these are the ways of true shredding. indeed.
anyways, nevermind.
November 3rd, 2006 at 8:15 pm
Man whatever.. Lakeway could have been built anything more like it was designed and the kids who skate there daily would have been much more happy… bottom line.
November 6th, 2006 at 2:49 pm
Yea yea, coulda, woulda, shoulda. Your right the place sucks!…Bottom line!