Tannery Skate Park

08/31/2020

If you have enjoyed the new skate ramps at Tannery Park - either as a user or parent - read up and let your elected city officials know what you would like to see happening to the ramps next.
Without your input they might be closed by the fall.

Brevard City Council recently voted to approve a resolution that accepted the Tannery Skate Park as complete and authorized the disbursement of the remaining unspent funds to the Community Focus Foundation Skate Park account, “Sk8 Brevard.” A part of the approved motion made by Councilwoman Gera...

06/30/2020

Keep dropping in and tag us. We want to see how you like the ramps.

06/27/2020

Dawn to dusk, folks. I always get that wrong. No overnight skating please.

06/27/2020

Tannery Skatepark is open NOW.
Drop in when you can - no more than 25 users at a time - and enjoy Brevard’s newest, free to the public amenity.

06/23/2020

We are so so close. Stay tuned. Don’t go anywhere.

04/21/2020

The future of the Tannery Skate Park suffered yet another setback during Monday’s Brevard City Council meeting. Following a discussion and a vote on whether Council Member Geraldine Dinkins has a conflict of interest, the council voted AGAINST a request to let the skate park task force use donated funds on professional labor to finish and bring the ramps into compliance with insurance specifications.
Council members Maurice Green, Maureen Copelof and Mac Morrow voted against the task force’s request.
What remains unclear is what their rationales are for continuously putting road blocks in the projects way and one again preventing the project from moving forward.
It’s time to ask them. Email or call them. Their contact information can be found at www.cityofbrevard.com
Also, Maureen Copelof and Mac Morrow are up for election in November of 2021.
We will continue advocating for the project. Now is not the time to give up.

03/10/2020

This is your chance to give input on the proposed PERMANENT skatepark in Brevard (separate from the Tannery ramps) please come and tell us what features you want in an initial phase and what you want to see in future phases. The Brevard City Council has approved $100,000 to build this year.
Today at 6. We need actual skateboarders in the room, or else you can’t complain about what will be built.

The City of Brevard will host a public input session for the new permanent skatepark on March 10th starting at 6:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers of City Hall, located at 95 West Main Street.

This is the public’s chance to review preliminary designs for the future concrete skatepark, as well as to meet the design and build team from Pillar Design Studios, an industry leader in action sports design and construction.

Brad Siedlecki, owner of Pillar Design Studios, will be in Brevard to facilitate the discussion and review the preliminary designs. City Staff will also be in attendance to answer additional questions.

This input session is a great opportunity for Brevard’s skating community to have a discussion with the professionals from Pillar Design Studios about the creative design of the City’s future permanent skatepark.

Anyone with an interest in skating and the new skatepark is invited to attend. We want your feedback and participation!

11/17/2019

The fate of the Tannery Skate Park will be up for discussion before the Brevard Parks, Trails & Recreation Committee this Wednesday, Nov. 20. City staff is scheduled to present a cost estimate and timeline for a new, concrete park, which could be years off, will come out of the city’s general fund and be likely smaller than the two-ramp COMPLETED Skate Park at 222 Silversteen Road that is currently languishing unused, because the city failed to exercise planning oversight so that it could be insured through its regular provider for public use. There are still ways to get these ramps open (leasing it to a third-party entity, finding private insurance, making it a waiver-only facility with guards in place) while the city plans and funds a concrete park, but is up to us - donors, educators, organizations, skaters, parents, grandparents, city residents and business owners - to ask for ways to open these ramps that we as a community built. City staff is letting the weeds grow up around the ramps to hide their own short-comings and throw away $73,000 in private donations and 500 in volunteer hours, so your input is pivotal to get these ramps open and available to skaters of all ages. Attend the public meeting this Wednesday at 3:30 at 95 West Main Street or e-mail council members Gary Daniel and Maureen Copelof (www.cityofbrevard.com )who serve on this committee. Nothing will happen unless we ask for it. Complaining to no one in particular on social media is not enough, speak up and be part of the solution.

Regardless of what city staff has been trying to say about these ramps, they are architecturally beautiful, safe within the confines of skating and completely functional.

11/01/2019

One our favorites from the block party in Rosenwald last fall. The Tannery Skate ParkTask Force built and set up a temporary skate ramp and as soon as it was ready it was mobed -by girls!
So. Many. Girls.
They waited in line to join hands with our on-ramp volunteers and they were fearless and quick learners. It was breath-taking.
This pictures was only made possible when all the volunteers took a break to get water. The only other time these girls all sat down was when the ice cream truck stopped by.
Such a place of empowerment. We want and we need this for all the girls in our town. Let’s tell our city leaders to make this happen.