PCAD - Seattle Center, Skateboard Park #1, Seattle, WA

Structure Type: landscapes - parks - urban parks

Designers: [unspecified]

Dates: [unspecified]

Seattle Center, Seattle, WA

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After it was demolished, a controversy in 2007 ensued over where to locate the second skateboard park at the Seattle Center.

Demolished in 2006 to make room for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Parking Garage.

PCAD id: 9761

Publications

Galloway, Andrea, "Skaters hit new snag at Center", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, B1, B5, 07/31/2007. Yenter, Sharon, "Letters to the Editor: Why remove one group's amenity to satisfy another?", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, B7, 08/01/2007. "P-I Editorials: Seattle Center Political Ollies", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, B6, 08/01/2007.