Sign this Petition to demand that the Chicago Park District leadership commit to a meeting with American Ramp Company's (ARC) Skate Park Design Firm PIVOT CUSTOM.

Why This Project Matters

Logan Boulevard Skate Park in Chicago’s Northwest Side neighborhood was initially proposed by the community to the City and Chicago Park District as Chicago’s first world-class "covered" skate park under the I-94 Kennedy Expressway in Logan Square. The skate park was a high-priority new park recommendation in the City’s 2004 Logan Square Open Space Plan.

For almost 20 years, the Logan Boulevard Skate Park has been a vital community anchor for families, youth, and skaters. Built in 2009 under the I-94 viaduct, the park has served thousands of skaters year-round. Phase I conception of temporary modular ramps were intended to be replaced by an expanded Phase II permanent concrete skate park. Phase II never came. Today, the temporary modular elements are worn, unsafe, and long past their intended lifespan.

Temporary modular is temporary, it turns out. 

After over four years of community engagement, we’ve found that the community wants:

• a permanent, safe, sustainable world-class concrete LBSP, as was planned in 2009, integrated with green space and community programming, and consistent with and modeled by pretend enter under-interstate skate parks throughout the US. 

Hundreds of comparable concrete skateparks exist nationwide under interstate viaducts, some 20–30 years old, built in full compliance with DOT highway safety and within DOT engineering parameters. 

Groundwork Laid by the Community 

Over the past five years, residents, youth advocates, and local leaders have raised over $800,000 for a world-class redevelopment. The funds raised through LSS’ advocacy were appropriated for sustainable concrete redevelopment and to support the community’s vision, allowing the Chicago Park District to partner with skaters, community leaders, and experienced professionals to evaluate and deliver a long-term, permanent, sustainable concrete redesign.

Instead, the Chicago Park District has:

• Delayed
• Sidelined community organizations,
• Refused to meet with specialized skatepark engineers,
• Repeatedly dismissed national precedent (i.e., concrete under-interstate skate parks) without any engineering basis, and
• Plan to use community-advocacy funds for another modular temporary built

Across the United States, permanent concrete skateparks have safely and successfully coexisted under interstate highways for decades. There is no prohibitive engineering reality unique about the Logan Boulevard site that makes such a build impossible here. The only barrier today is by the Chicago Park District should they continue to refuse to meet with professional industry experts.

The Park District does not have in-house engineering expertise to dismiss engineering issues as impossible. Additionally, the Park District lacks a legitimate engineering justification for its claim that nothing permanent and concrete can be built at this site. They have never commissioned a feasibility study, engaged qualified skatepark firms, or requested analysis from experts who have designed and built these exact types of skate parks across the country under interstate highway systems.

Pivot Custom can provide answers to these engineering questions — to IDOT, the Park District, skaters and community members. 

What We Are Asking and Why It’s Reasonable

We are calling on the Chicago Park District to take one simple, reasonable, time-sensitive step:

• Meet with American Ramp Company’s PIVOT CUSTOM design team by the second week of January 2026 deadline to review and consider the feasibility of an expanded permanent, concrete Logan Boulevard Skate Park. It's a free consultation and tutorial on world-class skate parks with a world-class design/build firm.

Pivot Custom is one of the nation’s leading skatepark firms with decades of experience building safe, permanent skateparks under interstate highways in collaboration with DOTs. They are industry experts with experience building skate parks under highways safetly and in coordination with DOT long-term maintenance, drainage, and accessibility standards.

Years of Delay; Experts are Ready to Help:

• Review the expanded site opportunity with CPD 
• IDOT and the community to envision what's feasible
• Provide accurate engineering and design analysis that adheres to IDOT needs
• Explore drainage, access, utilities engineering/design through deliberate DOT coordination
• Design within IDOT’s parameters, not beyond them

The community is not asking the Park District to green-light concrete today; we are asking the Park District to engage skate park design experts in good faith, so we can determine, professionally, transparently, and with evidence, what is possible.

This Project Represents

• A once-in-a-generation opportunity to upgrade derelict, unused IDOT superhighway right-of-way land into a world-class activity jewel for Chicago
• A safe, healthy, low-cost recreational outlet for the city's youth of all ages
• A proven violence-prevention strategy
• A long-standing community vision
• A chance to repair trust and work collaboratively

Our Message to the Chicago Park District: Meet with PIVOT CUSTOM. Now!

Respect the community’s investment.
Honor the groundwork already laid.

Sign this Petition to demand that the Chicago Park District commit to a meeting with PIVOT CUSTOM by the Second Week of January 2026, so our community can build the permanent, sustainable concrete Skate Park for Chicago we’ve spent years fighting for.