Skating aficionado’s unite! Memphis will finally be graced with a skate park in 2011! This park will be built in Tobey Park, near the Mid-South Fair Grounds. Now all you skaters can practice your ollies, grinds, and rail stands a little more safely than just utilizing whatever concrete you could find.

The long-awaited skate park at Tobey Park, near the intersection of Flicker Street and Avery Avenue, will be designed by Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Wormhoudt Inc. in partnership with Askew Hargraves Harcourt & Associates Inc. of Memphis.

Mayor A.C. Wharton has stated that the design team will host a public meeting within 30 days to gather input from the local skating community as to what they would like to see in the new park. Local skaters are actually amazed that they picked Tobey Park. The decision stemmed from a skateboarding demonstration that over 400 skaters performed to push for Tobey Park.

This is a great thing for the community. Who knows? The new park may entice non-skaters to give the activity a try.

Are you as excited as the rest of the city?

photo credit: Rev Stan