Building Support

If you are in the Seattle area this weekend you can stop by and show your support for the DIY skater spirit. Looks to me like a Burnside-style, local effort to create something for skaters - by skaters.

"The Marginal Way skatepark is a local DIY project built with volunteer labor and contributions.   Its mission is to create a legal recreational facility for skateboarders in the City of Seattle.

The recent decisions by the City of Seattle and Seattle Center to tear down the legal skateparks in the city (Ballard Skatepark, Seaskate) and rebuild them at a later date motivated local skateboarders to begin construction on a small concrete skate area in the industrial SODO district.

The site, located under a highway on-ramp, was primarily used as transient campground and was littered with garbage, human waste and graffiti. Clean up and construction in and around the area began in October 2004 with the approval of the surrounding businesses."