Skatepark - Bay City, Oregon, U.S.A.

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The City of Bay City has received a grant from Oregon Parks and Rec to construct a concrete park. DreamLand is scheduled to break ground on August 13th with a projected completion date of October 15th.

We will post pictures at the City website www.ci.bay-city.or.us

Shaena Peterson

The proposed Ken Downie SkatePark in Bay City will be a gathering place
everyone will take pride in, a place that celebrates our youth. Skateboarders are
our kids and friends and we want them to have somewhere to go where they are
safe and welcome. Skateboarding is an exciting and fascinating sport; no
wonder it is the fastest-growing athletic activity among todays youth. A challenging skatepark will provide a facility for our kids to be incredible athletes. We wont isolate this skatepark in some remote corner. As a community, Bay City doesnt shy away from kids or exile them to back-corners of parking lots or remote fields. And the City Council agrees; the upper park in Bay City already has a great covered area, picnic tables, and an excellent sidewalk leading right
up to the site of the skatepark. The Bay City Council has repeatedly said they believe in a skatepark, but they could not allocate money from the budgets street fund. We are lucky that an inventive bunch of young people has begun the process to make Kens Place a reality. We have received conceptual drawings from DreamLand