Harrison Street DIY

This blog is for a community built skate spot project in the Columbus Park neighborhood of Kansas City. We are hoping to utilize an unused lot in the corner of our neighborhood that has fostered unwanted behavior for years. We hope to transform this space to help fill a desperate need in the skateboard community for more spaces that allow skateboarding and also make the area a more usable and less dangerous place for everyone in the neighborhood.

Saturday, February 7, 2015

Clean up and prep

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This sidewalk has been completely overgrown and blocked for a while now. This first photo was taken after we had already cut out a lot of s...

Snow Day!

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Donation!

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Neighbors keep dropping off wood scraps for us to use behind the barrier. These plywood scraps are going to be great to use for small forms...

Clean up day

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This thing is too fun! This is the first day we tried out the whole barrier. The concrete on the newest section wasn't quite ready so w...

Street clean up

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This day we had a work day to clean up the cul de sac extending behind the barrier. This area has already been cleaned up a ton by us. The...
Friday, February 6, 2015

Build #1 Part 4

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We're finishing the whole barrier! This time with a different design. This build took 14 bags of donated quikcrete and...

Street needle

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We find some seedy things in this street and lot in our neighborhood. Today there was a used needle in the street. The week before t...

Donation!

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A great neighbor of the spot donated 20 bags of quikcrete!(12 pictured) This would have cost us about $80 to have bought. A frie...

Bread! KC

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Our community built skate park project was presented at local micro-funding event series Bread! KC. The project seemed to generate a...

Build #2 part 2

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The manual pad was complete late December. We spent about $300 and 80 hours volunteer labor over 2 days. Here's a faux before ...

Build #2 Part 1

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We had up to 10 volunteers during this long day. We started at 10am Saturday and finished at 3am Sunday. Ugh... Built on...

Donations!

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Some scrap donations from a neighboring business that will be useful for framing. Another business gave us some scrap steel tubing we will...

Inspiration

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Brooklyn Street skate park in Portland is a nice little park that cleaned up an unused and abused corner of a residential neighborhood. Th...

Build #1 Part 3

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About $90 in concrete. At this point, there have been $200 in monetary donations.  On day 3 We extended the ramp to the left an...

Build #1 Part 2

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November 26, 2014. Second build day. Hip and love seat.

Build #1 Part 1

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November 22, 2014. People have been skating in this street for a long time, but this is the first day of our co...
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