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Four Michigan cities are each receiving $250,000 grants to build skate parks, thanks to the Tony Hawk Foundation and Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation.
The Tony Hawk Foundation is teaming up with a local group to build new non-profit skate parks in Michigan and western New York.
Skate icon Tony Hawk's Tony Hawk Foundation is offering up to $1 million in matching grants for four Michigan communities with skate parks. It's partnering ...
Along with the Riverside Park skate facility, Built to Play is sponsoring six other skate parks in southeast Michigan — such as Ypsilanti, where ground was broken on Friday, or Detroit's ...
The city of Muskegon is investing in its future, with leaders planning to build a new skatepark: something that's been lost in that community for years since the old one was demolished in 2016.
A Michigan reporter has gone viral after completing a news segment while skateboarding at the same time. On Thursday, reporter Victor Williams of Detroit's WDIV news station was discussing a new ...
George Leichtweis, 68, of Walled Lake, has run skate parks all over Michigan. He started his first skate park in 1979, an outdoor park with a skate shop, at the base of the Detroit Zoo water tower ...
Detroit and its surrounding areas offer outdoor fun in skate parks that have other various activities for the active lifestyle.
A new skatepark in honor of 20-year-old Dominic Duhn, who was killed in a hit-and-run, will be added to Northville Township's Millennium Park in 2023.
LANSING, MI — Parks, trails and sports facilities around Michigan will receive more than $8.4 million for improvement and expansion projects, the state announced.
The Tony Hawk Foundation in partnership with the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation opened up grants for southeast Michigan.
Who wants a “cold one?” Beer company Labatt bought out The Rink at Campus Martius Park to host “Labatt on Ice,” a free skate night for beer fans to get in the holiday spirit with an “ice ...