Vans Shuts Orlando Skatepark Ahead Of Dozers

by The Editors on January 25, 2012

Vans Orlando Park Thank You 1The Vans Skatepark in Orlando, Florida celebrated one last Steve Van Doren grill and Tony Trujillo and Omar Hassan skate session on Friday, January 20, 2012, before the bull dozers roll in and remove the entire mall, according to a post on the Vans site.

After 10 magical years in our skatepark in Orlando we are sad to have to say goodbye. The mall that we occupied for the past decade is being leveled to the ground to build…another mall. . . All of the wooden ramps were broken down over the weekend with the wood and Skatelite being divvied up between The Skatepark of Tampa, a number of local area skateparks as well as being being driven up to our House of Vans in Brooklyn for a facelift and resurfacing.

We’re glad Vans stuck with it as long as they did and they found good homes for the ramps.

[Link: Vans via Thrasher Mag]

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