Design progress continues for Emporia’s new skate park.
The city of Emporia says the Skate Park Advisory Committee met this month to work with American Ramp Company with the goals of evaluating potential revisions to the original design, and there were some changes made. There will be what the city calls a “dynamic array” of features, which are listed online at KVOE.com.
American Ramp Company will now prepare a new plan to present to the City Commission next month. The current plan is to begin construction by late this summer.
Original plans were to have the new project located at Santa Fe, but the city moved the project to Whittier in 2022 after lease negotiations with Burlington Northern Santa Fe, the Santa Fe Park landowner, indicated the city would have to submit annual lease requests instead of the original plan of a 99-year lease. The project costs $500,000, with half coming from the Lake Kahola Fund and half coming from an anonymous donation.
Proposed list of Whittier Park skate park features
*Bowl with hip
*Bump to rail and down rail
*Manny pad with dual functionality as a bump to ledge and an out ledge
*Two handrails
*Double set
*Step up
*A-frame hubba ledge
*Fun box complete with rail and pyramid hip
*Flat bar
*Ledge
*Bank to curb
*Quarterpipes
*Bank Ramps
