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Owens Field Contstruction Update 090409
September 4, 2009 – 4:41 pm
WIS Covers Owens Field Groundbreaking
September 1, 2009 – 8:41 am
COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) – Patience is finally paying off for some local skateboarders.
It’s been a long wait, but construction is now underway for columbia’s new skateboard park at owens field.
The organizer that helped get the tony hawk grant to build the park says he hopes this will get more youth off the streets and on [...]
Volunteers Needed for Skate and Create
August 20, 2009 – 3:05 pm
We need some volunteers for several things for Skate and Create. If interested, please email me at ryan.cockrell@gmail.com and let me know how and when you can volunteer. See below for dates times etc.
We need volunteers to hang flyers beginning ASAP.
9/10 – hanging the show at 808 Lady Street
9/11 – hanging, [...]
Blythewood Town Park Final Plan / New Blythewood Meeting Dates
July 28, 2009 – 3:18 pm
The final Blythewood town park plan has been completed. In the design the skatepark takes up 20,000 square feet. It has been moved to behind the lake. This is not the design for the skatepark, but the overall plan for the town park. However this is a large step and it means the skatepark will [...]
Post and Courier: Local Skate Parks Carve Positive Niche in the Community
July 23, 2009 – 7:44 am
Local skate parks carve positive niche in the community
By Samantha Test
Special to The Post and Courier
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Skateboarders don’t see the world like everyone else does.
Stairs are not a way to go up and down, rails are not for maintaining your balance and empty swimming pools are not something to be refilled. They are [...]
Columbia City Council Approves Bid for Owens Field Skatepark
July 15, 2009 – 12:48 pm
This morning the members of Columbia’s City Council unanimously voted to approve the city staff recommended bid for the construction of Owens Field Skatepark. This is an awesome moment for Columbia and for South Carolina. City staff will now coordinate the schedule for construction with the winning bidder, AOS and designer, Wally Hollyday. [...]
ABC News 4: Civic Action Exhibit Showcases Groups Making a Big Change
June 26, 2009 – 8:51 am
Pour It Now, a skateboard advocacy group is working with the City of Charleston to find a place to build a world class skate park that will give the 5,000 skateboarders in the Lowcountry a safe place to enjoy their sport.
“We want them to understand these kids are brilliant, theyre very creative, intelligent and very skilled, they just don’t have a place to exercise that,” Shannon Smith said.
Free Times Article: City, Pour It Now Skating Toward New Park
June 24, 2009 – 4:48 pm
Construction of Facility at Owens Field Could Start This Summer
BY NICK MCCORMAC
Ever since a skate park at Owens Field was demolished in 2007, local skateboarders have had to practice their craft on Columbia’s sidewalks and streets instead of one central — and legal — location.
But before the end of the year, skaters in the metro area might finally be able to return to their old skating grounds, which are slated to become home to the only custom-designed concrete skate park in South Carolina.
Pour It Now Charleston Film
May 8, 2009 – 5:25 pm
The homies from Continuum hooked up this sick vid for us in Charleston.