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New Downtown Skate Park Designed By Tony Hawk Opens To The Public Wednesday

The rain this morning didn’t stop Tony Hawk and the skateboarders from coming out to break in a new skate park on the corner of Monroe Avenue and Farmer Street. The new park will open to the public tomorrow, but we got a sneak peak of the new skate park and art installation called Wayfinding. Tony Hawk designed the skate park and Ryan McGinness created all of the sign artwork. McGinness was inspired by the way architects and designers use signs to help navigate places. “I saw a parall...

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A Temporary Skate Park Designed In Part By Tony Hawk Is Coming To Downtown Detroit

In January, ground will break on a large project called the “Monroe Blocks.” Until then, there’s going to be a temporary skate park and art installation thanks to Bedrock and the Quicken Loans Family of Companies. It will be called “Wayfinding.” The skate park will be designed by Artist Ryan McGinness with help from popular skateboarder Tony Hawk. All told, it’ll be a 4,600 square foot installation with six “skateable elements.” It will be built by George Leichtweis from Modern Skate and Sur...

Jer Staes
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Tony Hawk, Skateboarder Extraordinaire, Buys A House In Detroit

Whether it’s seeing Jack White out and about, or a glimpse of Eminem, or stopping into Wahlburger to catch a glimpse of Mark Wahlberg, judging the the reaction online most of us can’t get enough. Here’s the latest entry in Detroit celebrity watching. Tony Hawk – whose wife is from Michigan – just bought a house in the Woodbrige Neighborhood of Detroit. Curbed says it’s from 1900, and the Freep says that it’s a three unit house, with two of the units up for rental (There’d be a set of Airbnb tr...

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