Ride It Sculpture Skate Park gets $30K from Tony Hawk
More love, all of it deserved, for Gina Reichert and Mitch Cope’s Power House project, which includes a skate park at the corner of Davison and Klinger St.
Now the world’s most famous skateboarder, Tony Hawk, is supporting this unique Ride It Sculpture Park, a non-profit and community-based skate-boarding project. It is receiving a $30-thousand dollar grant from the Tony Hawk Foundation. Well done.
Pete Whitley is the foundation’s programs director. He says Ride It is unlike any skate park he’s ever seen. Listen up: he tells WDET’s Travis Wright how Tony Hawk went from kink flips to philanthropy.
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