Did you know Dallas is considered a skatepark desert?
As a city of 1.2 million, there's only one skatepark across the entire city. For context, San Antonio has 16, Houston has eight and even Fort Worth has four.
Plans for a 12,000 square foot skatepark are in the works in the crucial neighborhood of Oak Cliff, which has a rapidly growing skate community.Sign up for NBC DFW newsletters"In my last year of doing a little bit of research for skateparks, I found out there's tons of skaters in Oak Cliff, which we didn't know,” said JR Huerta, Dallas Park and Recreation board member for District 1.
“Staff told us that there's a need for up to 15 skate parks in the city because of the demand for it,” said West. “We came out to the community first. We want to make sure the Oak Cliff community wanted it. And when we heard overwhelmingly that they did, we we're like, well where do we want to put it?”
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