apaulable

@Jason Rice the major problem with Eisenberg is it cost money to visit and is always busy... meanwhile the football/soccer/baseball diamond are only used seasonally (and then only once or twice a week) but give all kids an opportunity to get off the street for the cost of a pair of cleats and a ball. Skateboarding's only expense is a cheap skateboard and can be enjoyed any day the concrete is dry.

@Rick Yost skateparks are usually built in sketchier parts of town. This is two fold; first, the folks in the fancier parts of town are afraid skaters will bring along graffiti, drugs and other illicit behavior (which btw rarely happens as skaters don't want to ruin a good thing either) and the Tony Hawk Foundation will help fund skateparks in lower income parts of town to give kids with fewer options a chance to get involved with a sport that cost little and practice is rewarded.

The park in Allen is just a few blocks from city hall, the park in Houston has one of the best views of the skyline around, in Lafayette, LA it's right across the street from the University... point is if the park did move downtown the only thing it would do is get the skaters in the park and out of downtown (City of Dallas, you could learn something from this lesson)

Oh, and if you did a healflip onto a rail (the ollie part is alliteration as you must do an ollie to do a healflip) and landed goofy into a grind... you'd be landing switch, not goofy.

I'm just sayin'.

Needless to say, I say build it. I'm an adult, I skate and when I travel, I make it a point of seeing where parks are between point A and point B to visit. And I always leave money behind in said city, could be tanking up for gas, grabbing a meal or getting a hotel, but tax dollars are left in a town odds are wouldn't see a dime of my money otherwise