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Category Archives: SC
February 15, 2010 – 5:16 pm
Local skatepark gets demolished
Wasteland: Rest in Pieces
by Joshua Curry
Early morning on Feb. 8, a lone bulldozer crushed the curves and edges of a local skatepark known as Wasteland. Born from the rubble of a paper recycling center, the six-month-old concrete park was largely the result of efforts by local skaters and generous donations from [...]
February 15, 2010 – 5:12 pm
http://www.thestate.com/breaking/story/1153108.html
Owens Field Skate Park opening can’t wait
By JOEY HOLLEMAN – jholleman@thestate.com
David Toole stood at the top of one of the concrete bowls at the new Owens Field Skate Park, bundled against a biting cold wind but feeling a certain warmth deep inside.
“I’ve been wanting a skate park in my town since I was 11,” [...]
September 23, 2009 – 12:18 pm
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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.
The homies from Continuum hooked up this sick vid for us in Charleston.
January 6, 2009 – 1:34 pm
The Blythewood skatepark is a feature planned to go in as a part of the new park to be built outside the Blythewood town hall. Other features include an amphitheater, ballfields, a scale model of the original Blythewood railroad depot, and more.
This skatepark plan is not a final plan so don’t worry if it doesn’t have enough [...]
January 5, 2009 – 10:52 pm
McDuffie said the grant will help the city build the park more quickly.
Officials will begin taking bids by the end of this month and hope to build the park for about $500,000.
Depending on how many bids the city receives, construction could begin by late March or early April. McDuffie said the park should be completed by July or August.
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