Portsmouth Skaters Push For Concrete

Posted by Derek - February 23rd, 2010 6:43 am

Skaters in the Portsmouth, VA. area are making a public push to have more of a say in the construction of the Cradock Skate Park. They say the current plan is far too generic and has not nearly enough concrete.  There is $200,000 in the bank for this project and how the money is spent should be up to those who will use it everyday.

To rally support for a design change, skaters should write to Mike Morris, at the Dept. Of Parks & Recreation, to let him know that the skaters want concrete.  Mr. Morris can be reached at Morrism@PortsmouthVA.gov. Keeping in mind that he is a supporter of skateboarding and he has been on board with this project since the beginning, e-mails should be positive and to the point.

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8 Responses to “Portsmouth Skaters Push For Concrete”

  1. +1 Vote -1 Vote +1MostlySkateboarding     - February 23rd, 2010 at 7:29 am    

    Thanks for the heads up. That’s one town over from me. It would be a shame to see that park get built instead of something better.

  2. +1 Vote -1 Vote +1chris     - February 23rd, 2010 at 11:48 am    

    Shocking that parks like this would still be built. Do concrete parks have a 20 year warranty?

  3. +1 Vote -1 Vote +1Jeff     - February 23rd, 2010 at 2:06 pm    

    Please don’t build THIS park, make one that will be useful and fun!!

  4. +1 Vote -1 Vote +1BLKPRJKT     - February 23rd, 2010 at 2:45 pm    

    American Ramp Company is a joke, cash-in prefab jerks. Call Grindline!

  5. +1 Vote -1 Vote +1fredlock     - February 23rd, 2010 at 4:28 pm    

    wow, thats what you get for $200,000 from american ramp co.? that is absolutely fuggin ridiculous, as well as a complete tragedy….

  6. +1 Vote -1 Vote +1SQS     - February 23rd, 2010 at 8:03 pm    

    American ramp company is a horrible company who needs to be stopped. They build hundreds of skateparks across the country every year.

    They always push for loud, hot and easy-rusting steel skateparks because they make a lot of money off it.

    When the citys wont let them build steel, they claim they can build concrete but it is super shitty quality because they’ve only been doing it for 1 year.

    Please spread the word about this website a group of skaters created to stop american ramp from invading their town.

    http://skatersforqualityskateparks.blogspot.com/

  7. +1 Vote -1 Vote +1Crete Skater     - February 28th, 2010 at 3:19 pm    

    the northeast and mid atlantic has two great builders in artisan and who skates.don’t let ARC take over this park and ruin another one.

  8. +1 Vote -1 Vote +1tyiquan mcduffie     - August 7th, 2010 at 7:19 am    

    hey for all the skaters i know in ptown..` its really hard for us to get a ride all the way to skateparks elsewhere… and we would wanna to have the best quality skatepark that will last a long time so we dont have to start gettin comfortible with this park then it get messed up abd we’ll have to start going to far away skateparks again so please can you help us!!

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