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'Ballard Bowl' to shut down

06:37 PM PST on Saturday, March 6, 2004

By ROBERTA ROMERO / KING 5 News

SEATTLE - A popular skateboarding park in Ballard is in jeopardy of being shut down. The park on 22nd Avenue NW and NW 57th Street was never meant to be a permanent skater hangout, but it looks like the Ballard Bowl is fast rolling toward extinction with no way in sight to put on the brakes.

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A skateboarder at the Ballard Bowl.

The skateboard park has grown in popularity since it opened, but the problem is that the skateboarding park was always meant to be temporary, as a new Ballard Civic Center Park is set to go in.

“Everybody needs a city park with walkways and benches - I'm all for that - but us skateboarders need a place to do what we need to do,” said Todd Winkleman.

The skateboarders are uniting by holding a support rally and signing a petition, asking Seattle city leaders to keep the skateboard park in place.

The Ballard community has spent the past 10 years coming up with a development plan for its city core. While they are sympathetic, the skateboard park just isn't part of that location plan

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The Ballard Bowl is a popular hangout for skateboarders.

"We have even made some some recommendations to the city - there are some locations under the Ballard Bridge that could be suitable, in which case there would be covered skating," said Beth Williamson Miller, ex-director of the Ballard Chamber of Commerce.

Skateboarders say there's no place in the country like the Ballard Bowl. But if it is demolished they’ll do what they always do - just keep on rolling.

You can vent your feelings about the Ballard bowl at a public hearing Tuesday night starting at 7 p.m in the Segway building next to the skateboard park.

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