Skate Park at City Park 2

Like much of New Orleans, City Park — one of the nation’s largest and
oldest urban parks — must undergo extensive redevelopment after
Hurricane Katrina. In order to embrace new cultures and sub-cultures,
City Park has allotted a generous portion of open space to a new
skating facility for use by both skateboarders and roller skaters alike.

To foster awareness and raise funds for this new facility, the Tulane
City Center has been selected to provide imaging and ideas
for the new proposal. TCC has teamed up with City Park and the
New Orleans skateboarding and roller derby communities in order
to create the most versatile and authentic facility. The desire for
a leading skatepark in New Orleans has existed within the skating
community for many years both pre-Katrina and post-Katrina.
Now, with the addition of a roller derby track and supporting
systems, this new skating facility has the potential to be one of the
premiere parks in the nation, attracting multi-generational users
and tourists to the city and the park, as well as facilitating City
Park’s participation in the growing multi-billion dollar national
skateboarding industry. By addressing the local skating community’s
needs and desires as well as gleaning inspiration from
parks nationwide, the City Park skate facility has the potential to
be competitive with some of the most successful skateparks and
plazas across the nation.