City may build new skate park under freeway
By: Brent Begin
Examiner Staff Writer
March 15, 2009
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| A massive skate park could be constructed under what remains of the Central Freeway. (AP File Photo) |
SAN FRANCISCO — Skateboarders are trying to grind out an agreement with The City to put a massive skate park under what remains of the Central Freeway.
San Francisco has three facilities specifically for skateboarders: Hilltop Park Bowl in the Bayview-Hunters Point area, the Crocker Amazon/McLaren Skateboarding Park and a park that opened at the Potrero del Sol/La Raza Park in the Mission district in 2008.
The City is expected to make up to $50 million on the sale of a vacated parcel of land bordered by Gough, Grove and Ivy. City officials have promised some of that money will pay for the skate park and a basketball court.
Also in the works is a site in Golden Gate Park. A skateboard park that was originally planned for the horseshoe pits but later moved to a parcel off Stanyan Street is in the planning and funding stages.
