Slabz

 From what I heard recently, Slabz Skateboard park will reopen later this fall after it reintegrates the retail storefront into the skatepark. Appears sales were not strong enough to warrant a separate storefront operation.

I will be glad to see it open again as Carbondale can certainly use a skatepark. I remember local skateboarders approaching the city council about securing funding for the construction of a public one but as far as I know, they only did so one time. It would take continued pressure to get council to build one, not just a one time appearance.

Skate Park

 Carbondale could use a skate park. Slabz has proven there is enough demand for one but we need one that skaters do not have to pay to use. I still see skaters on occasion using the Faner Hall breezeway area, despite the efforts of the city to stop them. it would be another activity for tween and high school students. Putting one in has been discussed for several years and the city does have open space available south of the new nameless entertainment venue on East Walnut.

Slab Skate Shop

 In case you missed it, Slabz Skate Shop opened in the University Plaza complex at 606 S. Illinois earlier this summer. Hopefully, this moves the town closer to getting a long awaited skate park.

Skate Park

Was talking with a friend about the lack of a skate park in Carbondale. Before it ran into all sorts of financial difficulties with the Splash Park and Hickory Ridge Golf Course, the CPD was discussing putting one into the empty lot behind the public safety center.
About 15 years ago, SIUC had one located back by the tennis course behind the Lesner Law Building but it was located too far out of the way to get a significant amount of use and the university eventually demolished it.