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Grindline Skateparks is an American company that designs and builds skateboard parks. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It has designed and built over 400 skateparks worldwide, [ 3 ] including the largest skatepark in America, Spring Park Texas.
Builders of skateparks include local skateboarders creating do it yourself / "barge board" parks and firms such as SITE Design Group and Grindline Skateparks. The first skatepark to receive historic designation was the Bro Bowl , in Florida, listed in the National Register of Historic Places .
On January 26, 2000 Monk founded Grindline Skateparks. As of 2015, Grindline had built over 300 parks across the world. As of 2015, Grindline had built over 300 parks across the world. [ 3 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] During his life, Hubbard helped design and build hundreds of skate parks. [ 9 ]
The Rom is a Grade II listed skatepark in Hornchurch, East London, England. Built in 1978 and designed by Adrian Rolt of G-Force, it is the most completely preserved purpose-built skatepark in England. It is the first skatepark in Europe to achieve listed status and the second such structure worldwide.
In 1987, an all wooden indoor skate park, called CT Bike, opened in Bristol, Connecticut. [8] CT Bike is where Tony Hawk made his debut when he was a young boy on his first East Coast tour. [8] Until its closing in 2022, the indoor skate park was operated by the same family who built the park despite a fire that threatening the park in 1988. [8]
The Athens Skate Park is, as the name states, a skatepark located in Athens, Ohio, behind the Athens Recreational Center (known simply as "The Rec Center" to locals.) The park was at one time the only skatepark in the world to feature a capsule (a full pipe connected to a cradle).
Pier 62 Skatepark is an oval shaped concrete skatepark of about 15,000 sq ft. Its main features are a 10-foot-deep pool, a flow area and a street section. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The pool has three sections, a 6-ft shallow end, a 6-1/2 ft pocket and a 10 ft deep end that just goes to vert. [ 4 ]
NYC Skateboard Coalition, established in 2017, is a community organization that advocates for New York City's skateparks and hosts NYC-based skateboard events. [1] The NYC Skateboard Coalition supports the skateboarding community of New York City through hosting skate jams and skatepark clean-ups throughout the city.