Wednesday, February 25, 2015

New Project. Sycamore Maintenance Day 1.

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So, as we have mentioned before, there is a lot of overgrowth area in this lot. There's a beautiful Sycamore in the lot that is sufferin...

Feature in Kansas City Star

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Another bit of press for our project, this time in the Kansas City Star. Pop-up skate park raises concern near City Market
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Throwback Thursday

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Back before anything was close to being built we were just skating in a street in our neighborhood. Sometime 2012-13 winter. And toda...
Friday, February 13, 2015

Road is currently closed so the neighborhood can play.

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This morning Public Works came and installed these baracades into the street to prohibit vehicular traffic. We were worried about this...

Project write up on Urban Angle

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Kansas City urban issue blog Urban Angle  did a write up on our project, the reaction of the city, and the history of this area. Pretty i...
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Currently...

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Currently, the city has temporarily blocked off the entire section of road where the project is. They will have a 'community discussion...

Channel 41 news feature

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KSHB did a short feature on our project Wednesday night after we found out the city had plans to tear it out. Link below. http://www...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Happy Thursday!

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Hopefully the city won't tear down our work tomorrow!
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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Currently...

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KC Public Works came down today. They have a work order to remove the concrete ramps this week. We will keep you posted...
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Monday, February 9, 2015

Build #3. Finishing up.

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To finish off this thing we smoothed down the edges of the parking blocks and curbs and added a couple coats of paint. T...
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Build #3

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We started working up the cul de sac with this small spined curb. This build took 16 bags of concrete and 12 hours of volunteer labor. ...
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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...