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Kansas City is looking for artists to design and install permanent public art for the Buck O’Neil Bridge Skate Park.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Multnomah County announced last week that it will delay its push to build an $895 million Burnside Bridge replacement as the project team pursues federal grants.
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A project more than 20 years in the making will be coming to fruition as the Portland City Council voted to transfer land for a new skate park under the Steel Bridge.
The Portland City Council has voted to transfer land for a new skate park under the west side of the Steel Bridge. It's a project 20 years in the making.
PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Crews are finishing up digging a 125-foot hole to install a test foundation that they’ll use to test the earthquake-resistant Burnside Bridge design.
Dave Miller: This is Think Out Loud on OPB. I’m Dave Miller. More than 30 years ago, a group of Portlanders created their own skatepark under the Burnside Bridge, without any permission.
A committee designing Portland's new Burnside Bridge voted 14-2 to use an inverted-Y bridge similar to the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge in Boston, pictured here.
The day of the October 2023 Kanis Bash, the annual fundraiser for the skatepark at Little Rock’s Kanis Park, was a washout. Faced with relentless rain, the organizers relocated the event to the ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Crews from the City of Portland responded to a sewage release under the Burnside Bridge at Waterfront Park on Monday. Officials say they contained the release and are ...
Burnside Skatepark, a community-built site under the Burnside Bridge, might be Portland’s most iconic skateboarding spot, but its design–done by skateboarders and activists, rather than ...