Remember how the city of Philadelphia had the chance to be youth-forward by giving LOVE Park over to the thousands of skaters that flocked there every year but, instead, the city government did what goverment does and blew it big time by making the terrain way less skater appealing and making skateboaring in LOVE completely illegal? 

Some time after that whole debacle, some skaters calling themselves Franklin’s Paine banded together and lobbied to get a public skatepark built near the Art Museum. That idea was mostly just talk until recently.  Last week, the Philly Weekly wrote about a fund raising event for the park. 

The skate crew are working with Anthony Bracali ARCHitecture because they wanted to make something unique. From the designs I’ve seen, the skatepark is going to be an amazingly organic architectural link between the Schuylkill River Park area and the Art Museum.  It’s really unlike any skatepark I’ve ever seen, showing a unique blend of terrain that seems to include natural components of the new growth around the Parkway and will prove to be a beautiful extension of the young, artistic class blossoming in Philadelphia.  It’s no longer a dream or a rumor…this IS going to happen, so get psyched Philadelphia!

Reports are in that the fund raising meeting for the proposed skatepark near the Philadelphia Museum  of Art went REALLY well.  The name for the project is going to be Paine’s Park Project.  They’ve got a really nice new website and some incredibly nice person donated TWENTY FIVE GRAND to get the ball rolling.  Still, they are going to need everyone’s help on this.  If you care about the future generation of Philly skate rats, you should consider donating.

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