Ian Lemmonds recently wrote a fantastic post that described the promise and new possibilities associated with the Grand-opening of the Greenlaw ramp. March 27th marked the one month anniversary of its opening. It’s an understatement to say that the ramp is getting well used.
Since the ramp opened, the number of daily participants has almost tripled from 11 to 30 kids. The ramp now has 25 kids that skate on it at least once a week and 90% of the 120 youth at the community center have tried the ramp one or more times. Frankly the demand is overwhelming especially when you realize we have over 100,000 youth in this city.
To meet the demand, the need, we are looking to build more places for inner city youth to learn to skate and use the activity to help them develop into confident healthy individuals.
We’ve partnered with the Binghamton Development Corporation (BDC), who has provided us land for building a skate park at a location immediately adjacent to the future Greenline trailhead site at Tillman near Walnut grove.
We are trying to win a $250,000 dollar Pepsi grant through online voting so that means outcome of the project lays in the voting power of Memphians. This project is a call to turn “the love” for our city into action and help make building a skate park in Binghampton become a reality
Voting started on April 1st and as of writing this post we were nationally ranked 14 out of 298 applicants. Clearly Memphians are already stepping up to the task!
To get “On Board” you can do join the “Binghampton Skate project” FB group and then go vote very day for the project HERE. Be sure to always to first login at the bottom left hand corner of the page before clicking the “vote” button. If you have voted, the button disappears and is replaced with a word like “awesome” or “thank you” or “gracias”!
Final thought: Pepsi has empowered the grassroots for action so let’s make good on their offer and show the U.S. that Memphis has what it takes to nail one of these highly coveted grants!
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