News (Almost) Final Seask8 Designs Released
posted by on August 15 at 13:46 PM
Skaters, meet your new Seask8 replacement skatepark:
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The designs aren’t completely finished—they’re still working out how to implement some of the obstacles in the park—but this should be fairly close to the final design.
The park should be completed sometime next June, although the major festivals at the Center could keep Seask8 closed for several months during the summer.
UPDATE:
First person to fall on their face wins a Veriflex.
Is there some way to design a skate park to make the skaters seem less threatening?
I'm gonna sex-change into an ollie and 540 in your face!
Doesn't seem like there is a whole hell of a lot to, well skate there for all of the square footage. With all of the money put aside for this, they should have covered the bastard.
The coolest skate park is on Kent East Hill...not only is it built with the classic feel of a city neighborhood park (complete with that little brown brick hut in the middle) but it's on the corner of an assisted living community! That's right, Sk8rs meet SSS-SSS-NNNers!
http://www.coastalbc.com/skate/kent.htm
looks pretty sad compared to Woodland's new park..
Looks like it's just gonna be a bunch of street skating crap.
Bring back the Seaskate bowl, jerks.
I'm no skater but it looks kinda dull.
It looks like a hard drive to me. It probably doesn't help that it's name is close to a manufacturer's name.
"Admission Booth?"
"Pad Sculpture with Glass?""
So, so lame...
Once again North of the Ship Canal wins and South of the Ship Canal gets the leftovers.
The glass section of quarterpipe is cool, I guess, but the rest looks like the landscaping for a local bank, not a skate park.
I predict that within a month of opening, there will be complaints from locals that the skaters are tearing around their "park". In other words, the public will take it over and the skaters will be pushed to the suburbs. Again.
Looks like a nice art project but a pretty lame park in my opinion. And WTF is up with an admission booth? Is this a pay to play park, I'll stick to Lower Woodland and Ballard if I'm in the area...
Seattle Skaters hosed again.
WTF yeah that's going to get used screwed again
we wanted a replacement, not this abortion. Thanks again Jonah for your one-sided reporting on this issue.
now it fails AGAIN for the mere fact they want to charge admission to ride this piece of shit. Take a bow, SPAC - you fucking retards are making skateboarding worse in seattle with each passing day.
Admission, for that? That is just going to make this place even more of a baby-sitting park. I hoped that it would lure away some of the kids from the Woodland street section but, damn.
It isn't even a decent "skate plaza" or, street style park.
Go far, get a car. That or, bus it to Woodland or Ballard.
Admission, for that? That is just going to make this place even more of a baby-sitting park. I hoped that it would lure away some of the kids from the Woodland street section but, damn.
It isn't even a decent "skate plaza" or, street style park.
Go far, get a car. That or, bus it to Woodland or Ballard.
where's the pool(s)?
"The admissions booth is for the festivals."
....And comes out of the skatepark budget as well as a goddamn ATM. What the fuck? Two and a half years later, no park and now this pile of shit.
Where's the 50k that Pearl Jam donated to the original one gunna go?
I know, you'd think there would be a pool for after a nice sk8 workout, huh?
Typical Seattle ... no forethought.
And trying to charge for it ... lame.
Chalk up one more skateboarder who thinks this place looks fucking lame. This isn't even going to satisfy the street kids. A three stair and a few ledges is hardly a skatepark.
Again another disaster hits Seattle.
This model does not address the issues that plague proper skatetrack design. There isn't a roof, proper lighting, bathrooms, water fountains or timeless features that will challenge even the most jaded skateboard enthusiast.
The SPAC, in my opinion is just a placebo prescribed by the City of Seattle Parks and Recreation. The City has wasted resources, our time and taxpayers' money by thinking that this concept would satisfy the preferences of what a skateboarder would like to ride.
For the record, the Pearl Jam $$ was demolished when SeaSk8 was taken away. James Crabtree must be rolling in his grave knowing that ALL the hard work and personal time he took to create that place was destroyed at the drop of a hat to make way for some other structure.
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