Broken Arrow city leaders unveil new skate park

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BROKEN ARROW, Okla. — A caller and improved skatepark is officially unfastened successful Broken Arrow. The metropolis held a ribbon-cutting ceremonial this greeting for the expansive reopening of Nienhuis Skatepark.

The park’s plan was created done a collaboration with the city, Action Sports Design, and section skaters who shared their input connected what the parkland should look like.

The much than 16,000 quadrate ft parkland enlargement features a “street” dense plan with a tiny pump way extension. It was primitively built successful 2007 but was closed for rehabilitation successful precocious May.

Broken Arrow residents voted to grow the parkland arsenic portion of the 2018 wide work enslaved package. It outgo astir $760,000 dollars and metropolis leaders accidental it’s wealth good spent.

“It’s conscionable different facet to the prime of beingness that we’re adding to the community. In this parkland area, we person volleyball, basketball, swimming, football, and the assemblage center. So it’s conscionable 1 much facet to adhd to it,” Mayor of Broken Arrow, Debra Wimpee said.

Mayor Wimpee says the parkland volition beryllium a large mode to make wealth for the metropolis with skaters coming from astir the portion to cheque retired the parkland and walk wealth astatine country businesses.

The parkland is unfastened from sunrise to sunset, 7 days, a week each twelvemonth round.

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