Park Costs - General Information

PORTABLE PARKS & WOOD PARKS
As little as $3,000 and up to $100,000 with the average park being 10,000 sq.ft feet and costing around $25,000 require regular maintenance - surfaces may be masonite, plywood, birch, skatelite or skatelite pro advantages - portable, movable, affordable.

STEEL FRAME SKATEPARKS
Steel frame with metal or skatelite surfaces - permanent parks - can be bolted to existing concrete pad some maintenance - more expensive than wood with a 10,000 sq.ft.park starting at around $30,000 advantages - park can be reconfigured, weatherproof, affordable.

CONCRETE PARKS
Concrete starting as low as $10 sq. ft. averages $16 sq. ft. and as high as $20 sq. ft. depending on excavation, grading, drainage, irrigation,water table etc. average 10,000 sq. ft park $140,000 you must work with qualified builders & designers and make sure the concrete crew is experienced mistakes made in concrete are expensive and permanent and are happening too often 2 bowls ($132,000) were built and the concrete crew brushed the finish making them unskateable advantage - no maintenance, permanent park.

ORDINANCES BANNING SKATING
We are against banning skating. Skating is a great source of exercise in a country of overweight people. This is an affordable means of transportation for millions of youth. Skating is relatively safe and does not pollute the environment. It is the right of the citizens to use public areas.

TICKETING SKATERS
Skaters should not be ticketed for skating! It is not a crime. Ticketing skaters is nothing more than harassment by the police and should not be tolerated. Many cities have forgiven all skaters tickets and stopped the police from issuing more. Police should spend their time fighting real crime not raising revenue for the city. Many police refuse to write tickets for skateboarding and have actually stepped up to help the kids get skateparks. All tickets should be fought by the skater - see our sight under tickets. No 10-12 year old deserves a warrant out for his/her arrest for skateboarding.

CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE
Many cities require skaters to raise the funds to build their skatepark. The kids have been very successful but unless the city required the tennis players, swimmers, soccer players, little league, toddlers etc. to raise funds for their facilities then you have a civil rights issue.

FUND RAISING
You may be able to get either COKE or PEPSI to donate funds to your park, but there is no national program. You need to contact your local bottling plant for information and in exchange offer exclusive vending machine rights. You may also be able to get your local grocery chain and other stores to donate through SCRIPT.

SCRIPT is a program where supporters agree to shop at certain stores and the stores in turn donate 5%-10% of customers sales to the project. It does not cost the consumer anything. You will need to be non profit for this so you might want to do it through your schools or local churches.

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