Tag: Mid-City Skatepark Advocacy Group

  • Mid-City’s ‘Year of Funding’

    A City Heights resident and member of community nonprofit Mid-City CAN advocates for funding during a June 2013 budget hearing. | Photo Credit: Adam Ward, Mid-City CAN By Megan Burks Council district and mayoral elections made 2012 the year of campaign promises in City Heights. District 9 Councilwoman Marti Emerald and former Mayor Bob Filner…

  • Skatepark: Necessity or Disturbance?

    For Marcos Olascoaga, the push for a Mid-City skatepark is personal. He was hit by a car while skating two years ago. Above, Olascoaga explains how the incident motivated his work with the Mid-City Skatepark Advocacy Group. By Manny Jimenez, Oscar Perez, Trevor Seines, Beckett Browning, Eliana Weinthal, John Fields, Alex Angleman and Tia Hill…

  • City Heights Looks for a Place to Skate

    Click here to listen to the radio report There’s a broad cement path just outside the fence that surrounds Rosa Parks School in City Heights. About eight teenage skateboarders are doing tricks. One leaps skyward and remounts his board after it flips on the pavement below. This is where you come if you don’t have…