| Brian Kelly, owner of Ride Skate Shop, was the driving force behind getting this skatepark built. Early in 2004, Brian
began contacting several surrounding areas (Hoover, Pelham, Irondale, Alabaster, etc) about building a public skate park.
Although Homewood and Vestavia both had parks, this would be the first concrete skate park. Alabaster approved and planned
to open in Apil of 2005. That got pushed back to July 2005. July came to pass and the project got pushed to August of 2005.
Finally in October, construction began on the new skate park. |
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Site of the new Alabaster Skatepark outside Birmingham,AL @ Oct 10, 2005
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Alabaster skatepark's breaks ground @ Oct 27
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Alabaster skatepark's rounded, skull bowl during construction
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Alabaster skatepark' round-rail stair set during construction
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Alabaster skatepark' flat-rail stair set during construction
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Alabaster skatepark: pouring the bowl @ Nov 8th
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Alabaster skatepark: pouring the bowl @ Nov 8th
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Bowl nears completion at Alabaster skatepark @ Nov 9th
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Park not even complete and the rules go up at Alabaster
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the bowl near complete at Alabaster skatepark
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Alabaster bowl with sidewalks added around bowl
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Another view of the bowl at Alabaster's skatepark
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