The home-grown Wedgewood Park skating facility in Lansdale, dismantled in 2022, is showing signs of resurrection. Better, the borough is getting financial assistance in getting things rolling again from users themselves. Dan Sokil reported the project’s movement in The Reporter.

Wedgewood Park’s skating facility arrived in the borough through organic means, as local fans of the sport brought equipment to an athletic court in the early 2000s.

In 2020, a new skatepark was installed elsewhere in the borough, and the Wedgewood version was dismantled.

But thanks to skatepark designer Jesse Clayton, Wedgewood Park 2.0 is working its way toward reality.

Clayton recently submitted a rough draft of what the revived facility might look like.

Skatepark users, eager to show support, have already taken to the proposal’s GoFundMe site and chipped in more than $10,000 toward a price tag estimated at $23,000.

“I hope this pays for at least one kickflip,” one contributor posted.

Councilwoman Mary Fuller, commenting on the self-funding, said, “If this is the proposal that the skate community likes, they have about half the money for it. So. we could proceed with a few of the pieces of equipment and, as they raise more money, do the rest of it.

“So stay tuned.”

To spin through this entire story, see the coverage at The Reporter.

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