SkatePhilly

Always nice to show a little love to LOVE Park!

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Philly’s iconic Love Park which was once a hotbed for the local skateboard culture, is being replicated by using snow at @bear_creek in Macungie, PA , for #jahrailz . The event takes place Saturday March 4th beginning at 12 pm and consist of a day of snowboarding tricks and stunts off snow-built steps, rails and ramps. JahRailZ! is a special a one-day event at Bear Creek focused on the fun and healthy benefits of snowboarding. The event is also an opportunity for the community to bring non-perishable food items that will be donated to @marthaschoicemarketplace immediately following the event. “We are creating an ode to the original Love Park in Philadelphia, a once famous spot for skateboarding,” said Aidan Bulwicz, head builder at Bear Creek and a former skateboarder at Love Park. “Our Love Park will look very similar to the legendary skate park in the 1990s with steps, rails, ramps, and more, but bade of snow. With snowboarding being born out of skateboarding, we hope many boarders join us and show what they can do.” Admission to JAHRAILZ is free with a valid lift ticket or season pass. Details are available at bcmountainresort.com. Helmets are required

Big shoutout to everyone who helped repaint the ground at Rizzo last night!

See you Saturday at the Rizzo Skate Jam. 2-4PM!

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The enhancements at Rizzo Rink are now complete and skate-able. In a few weeks we will be hosting a volunteer-based painting session, to enhance the ground surface, followed by an opening skate jam! Stay tuned for information on these activations.

This project was a great example of community coming together to support an idea, and help get granite salvaged from Love Park out of storage and into the scene. We could not have done this without the tremendous effort and work from and other volunteers who spent their own time and money to salvage these materials in the winter of 2016, after the demolition of Love Park.

Projects like this have many levels of advocacy requiring presentation and approval from channels including City Council, neighborhood associations, Recreation Center groups and from the existing communities these spaces are in. It takes a lot of time and effort which we are committed to. Thanks to our relationship with and The Pennsport Civic Association, we were able to get a concept approved, with the support we needed from the community. Once approved, our friends at stepped up to financially support and we aligned with our partners at to execute the work.

Thank you to all who had a part in this! SkatePhilly is committed to continuing to advocate for the skate community and to creating new places to skate, with a focus on repurposing the salvaged Love granite. We are a volunteer based organization. If you want to get involved, please DM or send us an email.