Project represents Zakery Steele’s experience under preivous employment. This project was not completed by Sue Steele Landscape Architecture, PLLC.
What began years ago with a passionate and motivated skateboard community and a series of public workshops has now led to a 14,000+ SF urban skatepark and the City of Rochester’s first wheel-friendly progression sports facility. The new skatepark has been designed and constructed beneath the City of Rochester’s iconic Frederick Douglass-Susan B. Anthony Memorial Bridge. Completed in 2020, the complex project navigated significant site and environmental constraints, with solutions developed and delivered quickly by a multi-disciplinary team of specialty skatepark designers, landscape architects, engineers, and an expert construction inspection team. The ROC City Skate Park is a model of how existing infrastructure and underutilized urban land can be used to facilitate more active and playable city.
The skatepark is the first of its kind in the region and received funding through the City of Rochester’s visionary ROC the Riverway program – an expansive effort to plan, consolidate, fund dozens of significant projects that animate and activate Rochester’s public riverfront. The skatepark incorporates bowls, ramps, rails, quarter pipes, street obstacles, and other features for both beginner and advanced skateboarders, BMX bikers, scooters, and wheelchairs. Each phase of the project was informed by a public workshop with interactive design exercises led by professional designers (Newline Skateparks) and a motivated skate community to help potential users identify priority and preferred skate features to be included.
Mr. Steele served as Project Manager and Senior Landscape Architect for the project, including delivering multi-disciplinary design documents, leading a team of specialty subconsultants, and performing construction phase duties.
Client
City of Rochester, New York
Services
Project Management
Landscape Architecture
Project Team
Stantec Consulting Services Inc.
Newline Skateparks (Skatepark Designer)
Friends of the ROC City Skatepark
City of Rochester DES Landscape Architecture Staff
Tony Hawk Foundation
CP Ward Inc. (General Contractor)
Grindline Skateparks (Specialty Contractor)
*Project completed under previous employment.