Let’s try and put the Bethlehem Skateplaza in perspective.

This is the view from the overpass looking down at the skateplaza from the back end.  You can see the ominous Bethlehem Steel blast furnaces over yonder and the area where Phase 1 is currently being worked on; still way over yonder.  This is going to be BIG.

How big?  When’s it going to be done?  What is Phase 1?  Why do we need to vote daily on Pepsi Refresh?

Good Questions.  Here’s the answer… These are the various sites for the three skateplaza phases- totally about 43,000 sq feet and 750 feet long from end to end.

These phases are being built as funding comes in.  So the quicker the funding comes in, the quicker the skateplaza gets built.

Here’s a another view that might put it in more perspective.

The way I see it is we have several options to raise the funding we need:

1) Go into your wallet and pull out one of those $250,000 bills weighing you down and give it to the Bethlehem Parks Department.

2) Convince your favorite uncle who heads up a large corporate and has DEEP pockets to write us a check with a lot of zero’s.

3) Get EVERYONE you know and EVERYONE they know to vote for the skateplaza EVERY DAY this month on www.RefreshEverything.com/BethlehemSkateplaza to help us win a $250,000 grant to complete the FULL Phase 1.

Here’s a closer look at Phase 1.

The purple section what is currently being worked on now and will be completed by this Summer would be an tremendous help for the local skateboard scene but if all it takes is taking 30 seconds a day to vote for our project on a website to help let us also build the section highlighted in green- why not go all our for it?

This is no longer the pipe dream of some skater.  This is happening.  This is being built.

Go there for yourself and see how amazing this is.  Bring the guys some coffee and cheer them on as they frame ledges and pour cement.

F.A. Rohrbach has been making skatespots for years- they just didn’t know it.  A few of the best spots in the Lehigh Valley were built by them and then later skate-stopped by them too.  They laughed when I told them how we already knew how to ride their work.

It was kind of epic listening to the the guys working explaining to the John, a City Engineer in the orange sweatshirt why they were varying the heights on the ledges and leaving gaps in between them.  “You see, the skaters will able to ollie over the gaps onto the next ledge and grind on the raised part.”  Ohhhhhhhh.

If you are still not convinced how awesome this project is or you’re debating whether or not you should take 30 seconds of everyone who skates out of your day to help support the Bethlehem Skateplaza- just watch this video.

VOTE DAILY:  www.RefreshEverything.com/BethlehemSkateplaza