After a commenter made a wild claim that " You will never see a skate park again anywhere near downtown," Deputy City Administrator Sam Taylor responded. At issue was the current demolition of the Coeur d'Alene Skate Park:

Very respectfully this comment is extremely inaccurate. There is literally a new skate park planned as part of the Four Corners renovation project. The only reason the skate park has been removed is to start on the full renovation of Memorial Field.

The City has worked extremely aggressively to fund a new skate park, and we have worked hand in hand with the local skate park group to do so. We had them design the new park that will go in with professionals (note, the City paid for that design work though the skate park folks were to have funded that initial design work - they didn't have enough funding and we thought it was extremely important to help move it forward).

The City then applied for state grant funds for half of the project cost, and we secured the other half of the skate park project costs through our wonderful urban renewal agency, igniteCDA. Unfortunately, the state grant was not won. We still fully intend to work on securing the other half of that funding. While the skate park will not be constructed as quickly as we wanted, it is absolutely going to happen.

I'm unclear where you received this information, but please let me know because I'm very happy to chat with anyone and correct the record. The City of Coeur d'Alene is a strong partner of our skate park proponents. We're excited to keep working on the new one.

 

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