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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Sub Pop to Donate $10,000 for Skatepark

posted by on June 11 at 13:33 PM

Sub Pop Records is donating $10,000 to the Seattle Parks Department to help pay for early design of a new skatepark on Beacon Hill in Jefferson Park.

Every quarter, Sub Pop selects one employee to pick a cause to donate to. This quarter, Sub Pop accountant Angelina Saez decided to give the money to the Parks Department to help build a skatepark in South Seattle.

While the $10,000 won’t immediately spark construction of a new skatepark—which usually cost around $700,000 to build—but the Parks Department says the money will be come in handy when the city expands Jefferson Park over a soon-to-be-covered reservoir.

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1

Too bad the Gates and Allen krewe have killed all the other ones.

Posted by Will in Seattle | June 11, 2008 1:45 PM
2

Fuck off, Will. They have not, and you know it -- unless that early-onset Alzheimer's is kicking in, maybe?

What I'm not seeing on that plan, though, is a skate park. So they're taking the $10k for skatepark, and spending it on golf instead? How does Angelina Saez feel about that?

Posted by Fnarf | June 11, 2008 2:06 PM
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Hang on, I found it. It's over on the middle right, just above the "lake". The plan is designed to look pretty, not convey information, so it's hard to tell, but it looks like it's going to be about six feet square. Fun!

Posted by Fnarf | June 11, 2008 2:11 PM
4

wow, another skateboard park, awesome

Posted by sir jorge | June 11, 2008 2:32 PM
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That's pretty sweet. I'd love to see a ittle corner devoted to "Trippy's Pond" (old Beacon Hill "spot"). Good job Sub pop.

Posted by Dougsf | June 11, 2008 2:35 PM
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Six feet - wow.

Now if it was six feet under ... maybe Mimi Gates could take you golfing there ...

Posted by Will in Seattle | June 11, 2008 2:38 PM
7

So they're going to put a lid on the reservoir and build things on top of it? That sounds interesting and weird.

Posted by Greg | June 11, 2008 2:40 PM
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Just like they did on Capitol Hill, Greg. There's a formerly uncovered reservoir under a large part of Cal Anderson Park.

Posted by Fnarf | June 11, 2008 2:55 PM
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Sorry, it's not visible on the police spy cameras, Fnarf - are you sure they turned on the IR and UV functions?

Posted by Will in Seattle | June 11, 2008 3:27 PM
10

#1 is right and #2 is talking out his ass.

Still wondering where the $50k that Pearl Jam donated to the original Seask8 went after Bill dozed the park.

Posted by bobcat | June 11, 2008 3:29 PM
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and Jonah whats up with a $700,000 dollar skatepark? Most modern professionally built skateparks by solid skateboard artists (Dreamland, Grindline, Airspeed) are in the 100-300k range

Posted by bobcat | June 11, 2008 3:31 PM
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@10 - It went to Africa.

Posted by Will in Seattle | June 11, 2008 4:14 PM
13

I don't know where the money went, but asserting that "Gates and Allen killed all the skateparks" when ONE skatepark was killed, by the city, for Gates's foundation (nothing to do with Allen at all), just a couple of days after a brand-spanking new one just opened up, and at least two others are in the works, is disingenuous at best. And Will is never at his best.

Posted by Fnarf | June 11, 2008 5:16 PM
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@8: Out of sight, out of mind. I had no idea there was one in Cal Anderson Park. Most of my experience is with the ones up north of the U District, which are still uncovered.

Posted by Greg | June 11, 2008 5:23 PM
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do you skate fnarf?

'another' park? really? do tell? Ballard is not Seask8

it was it writing by Seattle Center that a REPLACEMENT for seask8 was to be ready by the time the old one was destroyed. That was 18 months and counting.

Again, don't speculate on shit you know nothing about. I appreciate your commentary in every goddamn blog, but I breathe, eat and shit skateboarding and can't see your skewed logic here.

buh-bye

Posted by bob cat | June 11, 2008 5:27 PM
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This is why skater violence is such a worry for so many decent people. Look what happens when you cross one of them. Imagine a whole gang of them coming to your block.

Posted by elenchos | June 11, 2008 7:52 PM
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Yeah, because football players aren't violent at all...

The fact of the matter is if you don't know anything about skateboarding then you can't comment on how the building of the park should be handled, or be in the loop on what makes a good skate park, or what happened to the other ones. Its like me telling Bob Ross he is doing his painting wrong.

Posted by Seth | June 11, 2008 11:25 PM
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elenchos - nobody 'crossed' me nor am I 'violent', just calling it as-is. Seems like you are trolling for a reason to hate skateboarders more. Passive-aggressiveness just doesn't work in this town. An elderly gent told me that 'leave it to Seattle to take something fun and demolish it'. While other cities are building skateparks, Seattle is destroying them. Ballard was 'saved' yet destroyed and moved 50 feet to the east in order to build yuppie condos that the developer padded Cathy Tuttles pockets with to move. Completely ruined a scene for us and when something gets 'saved' usually it doesn't get demolished (but it did). Tell me why we are wary? Of course you, like Fnarf, know nothing of our situation except the half-ass researched shit that comes out of your high-school gossip rag here.

Hell, our streets are even laid out to remind its residents to keep it real:

Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_layout_of_Seattle

Posted by bobcat | June 12, 2008 11:45 AM
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I'm just super stoked that a kind gesture to expand the community has been trivialized by a blog with basically no point except to cause controversy. Nice work Jonah, I'm thrilled you had a part in making this now suck. Next time get permission to include first and last names. I don't recall giving it to you and I'm pretty sure it's the proper etiquette for a good reporter. Right on buddy

Posted by angelina | June 12, 2008 4:40 PM

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