Next LSA Meetings
After a long hiatus having kids and enjoying the skatepark, the LSA will be holding monthly meetings again starting in June 2007. Plans and fundraising for the bowl are the next order of business as well as addressing ongoing skatepark maintence and policies. Contact us for more information or sign up to be notified of the next meeting.
5/22/2007
Know Skateboarding Day: Game Of SKATE!
Tech for the Bowl! PSG is holding another Know Skateboarding
Day featuring a Game of SKATE from 6-10pm on Saturday, Aug 13th
at the Lakewood Skatepark to raise money for the bowl. Cash prizes,
product raffles and demo by Kristian Svitak and Triad Skateboards!
Contest is open to all skaters and all ages. Sponsored and unsponsored
divisions on flatground and the 14" ledge. $15 to enter sponsored, $10 unsponsored. Find out more here!
7/22/2005
Lakewood Skatepark is now open! Mayor Tom George and Councilman
Ryan Demro presided over the ribbon cutting and Public Square
Group was on hand with a demo and some product raffles. Food
and drinks provided by the Lakewood Skaters Association. About
200 people showed up to celebrate the park opening and try to get
some runs in. Thanks to everyone who came out and to support the
park. Thanks to Mayor George, Lakewood City Council and Lakewood
City Engineers John Kilgore and Bill Corrigan for making this happen!
Check out the photos here.
5/18/2005
 Lakewood Skatepark Grand Opening - May 13th 4:30pm
Join Mayor Thomas George and Lakewood City Council
today at 4:30pm for Grand Opening and Skate Demo. Food, skate
product raffles and refreshments provided by Lakewood Skaters
Association. Rain or shine, join us at the park and support public
skateparks!
5/13/2005
Over $4,000 raised at first Know Skateboarding Day
Public Square Group held it's first "Know Skateboarding Day" as a benefit for the second phase of the Lakewood Skatepark. Over 400 people participated in this first event of it's kind which means it was the biggest Cleveland skateboard event ever! No pro skaters. No big financial backers. Just a good time for a good cause. The most enjoyable event we have seen yet. Check for pictures and photos at knowskateboarding.org.
3/14/2005
Construction Update
Almost all the skate elements were completed before the snow hit. The stairs and pyramid are the only two major items to be completed. Once these and the rest of the landscaping and fencing are installed then we could be looking at a early spring Grand Opening. Check out the progress!
2/2/2005
Don't Skate till it's ready...
The Skatepark is coming along great but some people have been trying to ride the park before the concrete cures. Until it cures all the way, the concrete will chip and crumble. Please tell everyone you know that skating it before it cures for at least a month will wreck it for everyone! Some stuff looks skateable but it wont be ready to ride till the end of January.
Thanks!
12/3/2004
 Construction
Begins!
Anyone riding by Lakewood Park will see that the skatepark construction
has finally begun! It will be a few weeks of tearing out the tennis
courts, parking spaces and basketball courts before you see any
work on the skatepark itself. Check back here for more updates!
9/23/2004
Cleveland Skateboard Forum / Skate Clinic
The City of Cleveland is holding a discussion forum about a future
Cleveland Skatepark. It is open to skaters, parents, and the public.
The same day PSG will be holding a free skate clinic similar
to the Skate Clinic we held last
summer.
Saturday Oct 2nd.
10 am - 1 pm Skateboard Clinic at the Cleveland Skatepark
2 pm - 4 pm - Cleveland Skateboard Forum at the Cleveland Convention
Center. Rm 211 - 500 Lakeside Ave
Bring your ideas and experiences!
9/21/2004
Skatepark Bid Awarded!
The skatepark will finally construction in
mid September! F. Buddy
Construction was the lowest bidder. They are a very reputable contractor
based here in Cleveland. However due to the cost of demolition,
there will not be much money left for actual skatepark elements.
Ripping out 4 tennis courts, a parking lot, a basketball court
and huge slab of concrete that underlies all of it has eaten up
a lot of the budgeted amount. And since F. Buddy has had no experience
building transistions, we have made the bowl area a phase two as
before. This means that everything - the stairs, ledges, banks,
gaps, manuals and flat will be built in this phase. So look for
bulldozers at Lakewood Park this month!
9/20/2004
Council votes to keep the skatepark!
With over 150 supporters in attendance, Lakewood City Council
unanimously voted to keep the park in Lakewood
Park! They are backing the skatepark plan despite some of their
expressed concerns.
So that means that the skatepark will go on as planned. We could
see ground breaking as early as late August. For everyone that
made calls to their council members, wrote emails and letters,
or came to the council meetings, thanks on behalf of all the skaters
of Lakewood! Due to your support, the city no longer sees skateboarders
as just a group of wayward kids. Now that the rest of the city
knows what you all have known, the skatepark will be an even
bigger hit with the kids and something of which our whole community
can be proud!
Thanks to City Council and Mayor George for not letting this thing
die. Thanks to Councilman Demro for sticking with this issue for
so long.
7/20/2004
 Lakewood Skatepark Update: Good News and Better News!
Will there ever be a skatepark? Yes. When? Soon. Why? Because
we had to completely redesign the park to fit in the new location.
A small group of influential people and business owners stopped
the skatepark plans as they existed in December. No big deal. We
just had to adjust the plan to fit. But it worked out in the end
because the city has put in $300,000 towards the park and the new
space actually gave us some room to build the new bowl area a lot
cheaper. So
that means the whole park will be built in one project - even the
bowl! Vince,
Andy, Mike, Stosh and others have been working on the new design
for the past 4 months and it is finally ready to go out to bid!
Check it out... 6/22/2004
 North Coast Skatepark
Cleveland is opening a temporary skatepark down by the Rock Hall
called the "North Coast Skatepark". The Public
Square Group has
organized a demo of local Ams for the dedication but everyone can
skate! Cleveland is interested in building a real skatepark at
some point and has invited skaters to show up, give their input,
skate the park this summer and hopefully a new permenant one can
come out of it.
More Info... 6/12/2004
 Public Square Group
This Lakewood project has brought a lot of skaters together to
help in ways that each person is capable. Lots of skaters and parents
from around Northeast Ohio have expressed a need for an "LSA" in
their own towns and neighborhoods. So to help get them involved,
and to allow everyone to work together but at local levels, we
created the Public Square Group to help with skateboard
related events, parks, consulting - you name it. This will also
help bring in others from outside Lakewood to help with our own
events.
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