The face lift at Peak Park Skatepark in Buena Park, California is a wrap! The City selected Spohn Ranch as the only skatepark designer and builder with the tools and ingenuity to modernize their 10-year old facility. We replaced the deteriorating wood ramps with new concrete terrain seamlessly integrated into the existing slab. Since construction wrapped, skateboarders and BMX bike riders from throughout Orange … FULL POST
With a Memorial Day targeted grand opening, the crew is blazing through the skatepark build at Planz Park in Bakersfield, California. The earthwork is now substantially complete – with the cut & fill balanced, elevations shaped and the bowl excavated. After framing and rebar, our ACI-certified shotcrete nozzleman Mark Bradford placed concrete in the bowl and led the crew in … FULL POST
In 2011, as part of a larger renovation project at Orizaba Park, Spohn Ranch collaborated with the City of Long Beach and a local landscape architecture firm to design and construct a small skate spot. Both the budget and design canvas presented to Spohn Ranch were small, but we made the most of the space and local skateboarders were eternally grateful … FULL POST
The City of Owensboro selected Spohn Ranch earlier this year via an RFP process among the nation’s top six design/build teams for a large skatepark development, including extensive site remediation and sports lighting. Since then, we’ve engaged in a thorough and collaborative design process, engaging with local skaters to design and engineer the best solutions for a site hampered by … FULL POST
The final concrete pours in Bend, Oregon are going down this week as the Spohn Ranch crew races against mother nature and the cold temps that are creeping in. The crew is also hard at work installing locally-salvaged boulders that will give skaters a unique riding experience as they transition between concrete and natural stone.
We recently collaborated with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation to transform a flat strip of asphalt at the Martinez Playground in Brooklyn into a neighborhood skate spot. Making the most of a limited budget, a once under-utilized space is now home to a number of sculptural skate elements and has become a thriving destination for New … FULL POST
While an official grand opening date is yet to be announced, the Spohn Ranch crew has wrapped up our portion of construction and is now moving onto the next project. When the surrounding landscaping and amenities are complete, this park is going to be packed with skateboarders from all over Northern California.
Skateboarders in Colton, California made due with just a flat bar and beat-up wood quarter-pipe for many years before the City finally appropriated funding to renovate the park earlier this year. While the budget was limited, we worked to with the local skateboarding community to design new concrete elements that would be seamlessly integrated into the existing slab. Last week the hard … FULL POST
In early 2013, Spohn Ranch was selected among the nation’s top firms to design and build a new state-of-the-art concrete skatepark in Gillette, Wyoming. Over the past few months, we’ve engaged in collaborative design process with the County, City of Gilette and local skateboarding community. We’re proud to share the final design and announce that construction will begin in the … FULL POST
The “City” stop of the 2013 Dew Tour returned to San Francisco, California where we designed and built world class competition courses for both the street and street style disciplines.
