Gentlemen, start your engines!
As part of Portland’s 19 skatepark master plan, the Steel Bridge site was chosen for the main Regional Facility, or essentially, the destination park. The official Parks & Rec definition:
Regional Skatepark: A regional facility will be a single large facility (>40,000 square feet) that will accommodate many users at once. It could be lighted and possibly serve as a venue for competitions. This type of facility will not be located in residential areas.
Steel Bridge is supposed to be our Louisville, in terms of square footage and drawing power. Our landmark skatepark, not that anything could replace Burnside in the skateboarding public’s eyes. The City of Portland has started accepting proposals – the RFP is posted. You need to be a registered vendor to view the related documents. The list of registered vendors (as far as skatepark building companies is concerned) appears to only contain Dreamland, New Line and surprisingly, Wally Hollyday Design. (UPDATE: Found another – Artifex.) The rest of you need to get your paperwork in order because the bid closes on january 9th of 2009. Also confusing, there’s an item marked Estimate:$50,000.00, which isn’t going to buy much. Perhaps Mr. Miller will enlighten us. Flame on!
- Thanks to Matt Redhead for the tip. [Bridge Photo: Wikipedia]
P.S. Where is the money going to come from?
Posted by: kilwag on November 13th, 2008
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hows the flowboard riding, daddydouchbag?
Hass – yes, I am familiar with the RFP process. However, what I am talking about is quite a bit different.
Maybe it is too late now.
bobcat – shut the hell up. Why you gotta bring your harassment to this discussion. You ain’t nobody and you’ve got nothing to say.
Mikey? Was I talking to you? No. Why on earth would I ever talk to a fkn dirtbag like you? I was in fact, talking to everyone except you. I’ll explain it for the idiot reader(whomever that may be): It’s an observation about fkn trolls being scared to say shit in person. As Mikey was so gracious to prove. Anyway… sorry Northwest Skaters, for the Tennessee troll derail… can’t wait to join you for some sessions on your kickass ‘crete.
Bobcat is no nobody? I am so disillusioned right now….
“bobcat Says:
November 25th, 2008 at 11:38 am
hows the flowboard riding, daddydouchbag?”
I don’t ride a flowboard, ya dumbass.
What are you doing on this forum Jason Harrison. You don’t live in Oregon.
DaddyYo, what part of ‘Skate and Annoy’ don’t you understand?
Yeah, man we’re annoying globally here.
oh, good, daddyyo is here. thank god we can get mired down in his bullshit instead of the topic at hand.
oh, and could somebody post some links to the countless times the dudes on skatetn made mr poindexter look as stupid s he is?
i could use a laugh.
DaddyYo rules. It’s nice to have someone to point to that is an absolute horse’s ass. And, it is nice that he lays it all out there for us to see so obviously. From reading his posts, I realize that his brain functions are so below the average intelligence level, that it make me believe that the rest of society just might be okay.
seriously, go kill yourself you have to be the most retarded people to call themselves a ‘skater’ in the history of skatekind.
And for what it’s worth I was born in Portland so go back to fuckin your sister, redneck.
This is quickly going south. Literally. I mean, the insults could at least be funny, right? Stop bringing us down, boys. Lighten’ up, already. Oh…shit… that’s some authentic NW hippie-talk coming outta my keyboard right there. Peace.
Is this what they call Cyber Bullying? haha!
YEEEHAAAWWW!!!!! we dun reched the top tin komemints, thank ya tenesee daddiyo…
psst. you gotta real purty mouth…
Haw, haw. Or should I say Hee Haw? Come on, we’ve got intelligent readers in Tennessee, and let’s face it, We’re the skatepark capital of world, but we’re probably not far from being the Meth capital of the world either.
…really? tennessee? intellegent?! readers?!!
…psst? whosgotmeth? you? is that what you’re saying?
So you don’t have anything else to say about the skatepark?
Figures.
they just don’t care to hear your crappy opinion, gramps.
Ha, ha. I know. They would rather hear you opinion about what other people think about my opinion.
Kid.
grown ass man,pops. grown enough to handle enough concrete to fill your trailor.
“Fuck Wally Holliday” I did. He just layed there. And on the 8th day he built Apple.
“Portland it is just some old hippie town that can’t move past the 1960’s”
Not Really…
wally holliday built the park in my town (edmond oklahoma) and its sorta good, they did a pretty good job, the street area is really good, everyone likes it, it flows really good, the bowl is sort of good, but it has no vert and is only sort of gnarly with an 8 foot deep end, but like i said it has no vert and after 3 years of skating it, its gotten kinda boring
ive also been to the wichita kansas park built by Wally, it has 3 bowls but they are pretty much just cookie cutters, one of which is a “pool” with tile and vert but steel copping (??) which makes no sense, the street area was pretty lame as well, buuut it did have this cool bank thing, i dunno, hard to explain, it was the one thing at the park that i liked
soooo there you go, if you want ok parks with one cool thing that you will be bored with in 3 years, theeeeeeeen Wally holliday is for you!