{"id":45552,"date":"2014-08-24T13:15:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T20:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/?p=45552"},"modified":"2022-08-09T18:24:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T01:24:07","slug":"tony-hawk-at-carnegie-pa-skatepark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/tony-hawk-at-carnegie-pa-skatepark\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Hawk at the Carnegie, Pennsylvania Skatepark Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tony Hawk and the Birdhouse crew will be christening the\u00a0new Grindline masterpiece\u00a0that Lil Eddie and crew constructed at the\u00a0Pitcher Park Memorial Skatepark. The celebration begins on Monday, August 25th, 2014 at Carnegie Park located at Forsythe RD and Cook LN Carnegie, PA 15106.\u00a0The Birdhouse Skateboards Team exhibition at Pitcher Park Memorial Skatepark is a free, public event and the Birdhouse Team exhibition will start at 5 PM. For more information, visit the Pitcher Park Memorial Skatepark Web site at www.pitcherpark.com.<\/a><\/p>\n

Press Release:<\/p>\n

The greater Pittsburgh area will soon have a world-class skateboard park, and one of the project\u2019s benefactors also happens to be one of the world\u2019s greatest skaters. Tony Hawk and his Birdhouse Skateboards team will visit the newly constructed Pitcher Park Memorial Skatepark on August 25, 2014 for a pre-opening performance, at the conclusion of their Midwest Birdhouse On The Road Tour. The park is expected to open to the public this Fall.<\/p>\n

The celebration event will showcase the meticulously sculpted features of the 17,000-square-foot concrete skatepark. Built by Grindline Skateparks of Seattle, Washington, it includes a street course, bowls, and its signature 20-foot-diameter fullpipe. Pitcher Park Memorial Skatepark is the first of its kind in the Pittsburgh area, and resulted from the efforts of one mom and an army of supporters, who worked tirelessly to create a safe, sanctioned place for kids to skate.<\/p>\n

With guidance and funding from the Tony Hawk Foundation, lead skatepark advocate Mary Pitcher launched the effort in 2008 to create a facility for local youth that would also serve as a loving memorial to her sons, Vincent and Stephen\u2014both avid skateboarders and BMXers who drowned earlier that year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat began as an idea, stemming from a terrible tragedy, Pitcher Park has turned into one of the most positive and rewarding experiences of my life,\u201d said Mary Pitcher. \u201cPeople who knew my sons and complete strangers came together and worked hard toward a common goal for the children.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pitcher and her crew\u2019s efforts were noticed by nearby Bridgeville native Ken Schultz, who dedicated time and more than $500,000 from the Ken & Carol Schultz Foundation to see the project through to completion.<\/p>\n

\u201cCarol and I have supported Tony Hawk Foundation\u2019s efforts to build safe spaces for kids to exercise and be creative for many years,\u201d said Ken Schultz. \u201cSo we knew the impact that a world-class skatepark could have in the Pittsburgh area. After meeting Mary and seeing how the kids and the community of Carnegie completely embraced the idea, we funded this project so it could become a reality more quickly for everyone involved, and the results have been nothing short of amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Pitcher Park Memorial Skatepark pre-opening event will feature Birdhouse team members Tony Hawk, Clint Walker, David Loy, Kevin Staab, Clive Dixon, Shawn Hale, and Shaun Gregoire. Despite concluding their grueling Midwest tour just the day before, the team is excited to visit the new park and be among the first to test its features.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis park represents everything we at the Tony Hawk Foundation hope to see in a community skatepark,\u201d said Tony Hawk. \u201cLocal youth involved in planning it, strong community support, and a great design that includes something for everyone. We can\u2019t wait to skate it!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am honored to have worked with the Ken & Carol Schultz Foundation, the Tony Hawk Foundation, the Borough Of Carnegie, and the many companies and people that stepped up to make this dream a reality to honor my sons,\u201d said Pitcher. \u201cSeeing this park come alive and anticipating the appearance by Tony Hawk and the Birdhouse team just proves that anything is possible if you don\u2019t give up.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the skatepark structure is completed, surrounding landscaping and lighting to allow safe skating at night are yet to be installed. The skatepark will remain closed to the public until these tasks can be completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tony Hawk and the Birdhouse crew will be christening the\u00a0new Grindline masterpiece\u00a0that Lil Eddie and crew constructed at the\u00a0Pitcher Park Memorial Skatepark. The celebration begins on Monday, August 25th, 2014 at Carnegie Park located at Forsythe RD and Cook LN Carnegie, PA 15106.\u00a0The Birdhouse Skateboards Team exhibition at Pitcher Park Memorial Skatepark is a free, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4041],"tags":[14012,14262,2719,14383,14011],"class_list":["post-45552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-skate-2","tag-pa-skatepark","tag-skate","tag-skatepark","tag-tony-hawk","tag-tony-hawk-to-perform-at-carnegie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Carnegie_PA_Pitcher_Park_photo_by_Sharon_Lutz.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45552"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45612,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45552\/revisions\/45612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}