Groundbreaking for Sunset Skatepark will be held on Monday, December 12, 2022, at 10 a.m.
Mayor Lloyd Winnecke, Deputy Mayor/interim Parks Director Steve Schaefer, and other special guests will break ground on the skate park site in between Mickey’s Kingdom and the Evansville Water and Sewer Utility Sunrise Pump Station.
The City of Evansville Department of Parks and Recreation released designs for Sunset Skatepark back in May. The concept for the Riverfront park was developed by Hunger Skateparks.
The vacated Lamasco Skate Park would be an ideal location for the 24 Pickleball Courts planned by the Parks Department instead of inside Wesselman park. So much opposition to the Wesselman site.
The Lamasco Skate Park occupies what were formerly two regulation tennis courts, so could not accommodate 24 pickleball courts. Unless the skate ramps have been removed from the Lamasco site, it still gets used by locals.
Wesselman Park and the grassy knoll on which the assassinated Roberts Stadium was sited, still has ample space for a couple dozen pickleball courts, either East & South of the extant tennis courts, or even on the leveled former Par 3 golf course, where there’s still a pro shop/concession stand that could serve the players.
Unfortunately, the city has let its former tennis courts in the assorted parks fall into ruin. So sad to see them decay…
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