Slog - Comments on Skatepark Meeting Tonight http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/skatepark_meeting_tonight Tonight, skatepark designers Newline and VDZ are holding the second design meeting for the Seask8 rebuild at Seattle Center. The meeting will be held in the Shaw Room from 6:30-8, where Newline and VDZ will present conceptual designs for the park. One thing the new park apparently won't include is a skate bowl, which has created a bit of a shitstorm over on VDZ's SeaSk8 message board. If you want to see a bowl—which won't be possible because of construction issues—or any other features, show up to tonight's meeting and give VDZ a respectful earful. In other skating news, the... Copyright 2008 Thu, 08 May 2008 13:37:46 -0800 Thu, 08 May 2008 17:41:13 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by left coast The Woodland Park Skatepark is open, has been for a while.

]]> left coast http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/skatepark_meeting_tonight#c1020221 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/skatepark_meeting_tonight#c1020221 City Thu, 08 May 2008 14:01:14 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle They mean a ribbon cutting.

But no skatebowl?

HERESY!

Once again Bill Gates and Paul Allen stomp on sk8rs.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/skatepark_meeting_tonight#c1020289 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/skatepark_meeting_tonight#c1020289 City Thu, 08 May 2008 14:31:35 -0800 Comment by Fnarf The funny thing about the Woodland Park Skatepark is just how inobtrusive it is after all the brouhaha stirred up by that crazy lady who thought she was a Neighborhood Association. The thing is about a mile from the nearest house, and she probably wouldn't be able to hear the skaters if they were having a gun battle.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/skatepark_meeting_tonight#c1020297 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/skatepark_meeting_tonight#c1020297 City Thu, 08 May 2008 14:34:19 -0800 Comment by john Can't they build an above ground bowl ala above ground pool?

]]> john http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/skatepark_meeting_tonight#c1020354 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/skatepark_meeting_tonight#c1020354 City Thu, 08 May 2008 15:00:17 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle heck, I can't even hear them when I eat my lunch down there ... but I can hear the boats.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/skatepark_meeting_tonight#c1020355 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/skatepark_meeting_tonight#c1020355 City Thu, 08 May 2008 15:00:25 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Boats, Will? In Woodland Park? Boats, really?

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/skatepark_meeting_tonight#c1020462 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/skatepark_meeting_tonight#c1020462 City Thu, 08 May 2008 15:49:33 -0800 Comment by jean genie Again...can someone explain to me why skaters (oh...excuse me..."sk8ers") deserve a skatepark at Seattle Center? Why is a perfectly good building, that gets used by lots of community and festival groups, being torn down for a park that everyone has already started bitching about?
I don't get it.

]]> jean genie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/skatepark_meeting_tonight#c1020700 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/skatepark_meeting_tonight#c1020700 City Thu, 08 May 2008 17:41:13 -0800