http://www.sugarskatemag.com/newsletter/janvier2008/paris_park/IMG_8039.jpg
For all those that say I never have news outside the USA, well here ya go :)

Paris, France new skatepark is going to be completed in Febuary this year. The picture i've seen of it, are spectacular. The all concrete skatepark called ''Paris 18'' is looking solid (no pun intended), and I hope some of the guys on the site from France, can get over there, and give us the scoop on what its like. It definitely looks like a park built to rip! Everything looks super smooth, and the layout is perfect! From stairs to bowls and hips, it's a site to see!
Check out the picture's here:
http://www.sugarskatemag.com/newsletter/janvier2008/paris_park/skatepark_de_Paris.html

Check this link for park information
http://www.skateparkdeparis.fr/

ohh pool coping!
too bad its on the other side of the world....

screw this, im going to france...


omg, that park looks soooooo awesome! it makes me wanna go skate right now...
i mean look at that, those stairs are so cool, would be like the perfect park for me... manny pads, ledges, banks, pools, small stairsets....
awesomeness.

It looks like a fun little park.

Does anyone have any idea how much a park like that costs to build? Just an estimate...I would love to know.

I'm sure in the double digital thousands!

I'm hoping MRCK see's this, cause I believe he lives in France and I hope he's semi-close enough to go. I really wanna see live footage of this park!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/skateparkdeparis/2127091695/ yumyum :)
seems like i gotta plan a weekend trip to france with my friends pretty soon :D

About two hours for MRCK ;). (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&saddr=Blois,+France&daddr=Paris,+France&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=50.818866,72.246094&ie=UTF8&ll=47.982568,1.889648&spn=2.706246,4.515381&z=7&om=0)

^^ what he tries to link (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&saddr=Blois,+France&daddr=paris,+france&sll=47.073555,7.305766&sspn=0.071082,0.186768&ie=UTF8&z=8&om=0)

That park looks astoundingly good. Cool wall ride obstacle:
http://www.sugarskatemag.com/newsletter/janvier2008/paris_park/IMG_7999.jpg

I'm sure in the double digital thousands!



Im not sure how much you mean...10's of thousands or 100's of thousands?

Im not sure how much you mean...10's of thousands or 100's of thousands?

like between $10,000 to $99,000 (It's a broad range I know)

That thing looks so sick I want it to be here :(

Mike yo crazy thats 100k plus easy.

Oh my god. an indoor concrete park! =D

i am so tempted to get in a boat and row across the english channel.

or just get a ferry :/ loll

i'm really jelous of this park now, but i have a skate plaza, so meh i guess im not tooo bothered :)

I would expect a park of this magnitude to cost much more, in the million dollar range. I mean, the land and roof by themselves would cost way more than $100k.

well i just informed myself a little, there's a new skatepark in switzerland soon, it will look about like this:
http://www.skatepark-glarnerland.ch/images/stories/obstacles/uebersicht.jpg
and it costs over $400k.
so i guess the one we're talking about here will be over a million :)

I'm sure in the double digital thousands!

I'm hoping MRCK see's this, cause I believe he lives in France and I hope he's semi-close enough to go. I really wanna see live footage of this park!

Well I live about two hours away but I will most certainly go there with some friends after it's opened to the public, it may be in a little while but I'll be sure to keep you updated on this :) I'll be sure to contribute with all the early footage I will stumble upon on the Internet as well.

Wow...

Heh, they should add a deathbox in that pool corner for realism.

(Shame on you if you don't know what that is...)

thats bad ***. im on my way to france right now! first in line to skate it when it opens!

Well I live about two hours away but I will most certainly go there with some friends after it's opened to the public, it may be in a little while but I'll be sure to keep you updated on this :) I'll be sure to contribute with all the early footage I will stumble upon on the Internet as well.

Brilliant! I'd really like that! I'm sure some of the most intense skating is going to come out from that park.


The reason why I stated UNDER 100k, was because I assumed the building was there, and they built within it. I'm no ''expert'' though on these things, lol

It's ok Mike you just look pretty and we'll worry about the money ;).

Oh and by the way that baby costs 2,700,000 euros (around $4,000,000 if I got the conversion right).

Dang, 4 million!
All I have in my town is a little 20 square foot park worth less than $5,000.

That park looks sick though.

Lovin the name PARIS18

^sonds like pr0n, lmao

i wanna all these ppl up tell them to build are park...cause we getten one at the end of the school year and the design looks so crappy there making it more for the younger kids not us older ones they said but we are going to the town meeting and complaining sayen some of us u will here in the future skaten cause there like 2 kids in my town who are like mad sick one landed a 540 inward heel down a eruo like 1 1/2 feet high then slopes into a bank its gnar

it's a three hours drive for me

and i've got holiday within a week

hehe

I think Im going to france this year for vacation (or around that vicinity at least) so I might go check it out. Looks great!

that looks sick!

Update on the situation :

so the park opened to the public last saturday, no inauguration or anything, it was sort of rushed for local political reasons... and it temporarily closed down in the evening. The spot itself is rad, but even though a lot of security guards had been hired to filter who enters the building in order to prevent troublemakers from getting in, they didn't do their jobs properly (I'll even go as far as saying that they never did anything it looks like), therefore not only the park turned into a giant nursery and got crowded up with kids on scooters and tricycles with no helmets, making the whole afternoon really prone to accidents, but also and more importantly the evening got way worse, a crew of troublemakers got in despite the security guards and the staff, and seriously mugged a some of the skaters and robbed some of the kids who were there (seriously as in, going at 10 vs 1 against a skater, throwing him into the bowl, kicking him in the face numerous times and beating him up with his board in front of the security guards who didn't even react and let them go as easily as they came in, and that's when you thank the helmet rule, even though it wasn't strictly enforced on that day for some reason). Serious injuries have been reported, it's a huge shame really, in a city as big as Paris, if they had hired skilled guards and hadn't rushed the opening for political reasons all this wouldn't have happened, this is seriously disgusting. I'll keep you updated on the matter.