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.

Sunday, November 22, 2015

Step by step: How we built our bowl

So far, every build of this project has been an adaptation of the existing landscape. We were inspired by how this pre-existing egg-shap...

Monday, August 24, 2015

Let's get up to date

Well, where to begin... After the community meeting where we received a verbal go-ahead for this project to continue, we began on a very...

The Plural of You podcast interview

Josh Morgan asked if he could find out more about our project for a podcast series( The Plural 0f You ) he does "...about people helpin...

Saturday, April 4, 2015

Donations!

We have set up a paypal donation link on the right side of our blog, so feel free to chip in however you see fit. A young Kansas City skat...

March 24 Community Meeting

Our first community input meeting was held on March 24th. Columbus Park residents, Director of Public Works Sherri McIntyre, and City Counc...

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Clean up day.

Cleaned up a bit in the cul-de-sac. Dug up this dangerous looking sign post that was hidden by tall grass.

Thursday, March 12, 2015

Featured on local NPR station

This morning our project was featured as the introduction for the show Central Standard on our local NPR station KCUR. The host and gues...

Build #4.

We decided to build a pump bump, and then got a little carried away. It's a little funky, but we will have to wait and see how it works ...

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Sycamore Maintenance. Day 2.

A few volunteers came out on a 20 degree February day to spend 2 hours clearing out the 'sucker' overgrowth on this neighborhood ...

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

New Project. Sycamore Maintenance Day 1.

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

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

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.

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

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...

Currently...

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

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!

Hopefully the city won't tear down our work tomorrow!

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Currently...

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

Monday, February 9, 2015

Build #3. Finishing up.

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

Build #3

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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