Update: Rainier Beach Skatepark – construction contract awarded
Like many projects in the Seattle Parks pipeline, this one has taken a while. It started back in 2021, with the first public meeting happening on January 19th, 2022. On the advocacy side, the project has been blessed with the dedicated involvement of advocates Danielle Jackson of the CHAMPS Resource and Service Center, Scott Shinn from Parents for Skateparks, and Skate Like A Girl‘s (formerly) Kwame Salmi-Adubofo. Many other advocates have contributed, attended meetings, and pitched in when needed. The Seattle Parks Department’s project website says that the design consultants were Environmental Works and Evergreen Skateparks, but at a key point in the design process, Evergreen disappeared and was replaced by Mears Design Group. If you look at the design drawings, you will see that Evergreen’s name is nowhere to be found, and that while there are some recognizable Evergreen fingerprints, the design is not exactly up to par with what they’ve been building recently. The documents are all stamped by Mears Design Group.
Toward the end of the design process and for most of 2024, the Seattle Parks project team really clammed up and stopped communicating with the community altogether. The community did not officially see the final design until it was released on the city’s procurement website when it went out for bid. During this “community engagement time-out”, Seattle Parks pursued and contracted a design for a cover that would keep the street section dry during the rainy season (we still have no covered public/city skateparks in Seattle).
On July 16, 2025, Seattle Parks posted the project on it’s procurement website as “a new Skatepark for all levels of experience, including rain shelter, associated seating, picnic areas, pathways and landscape improvements.” The roof is not included in the package, but the shelter footings-reinforced concrete drilled piers are included as an additive. The engineer’s estimate for building the project is $2,485,484.00 with the shelter footings additive estimated at $53,572.00.
On 11/19/2025 Seattle Parks executed the contract to Terra Dynamics Inc for $2,154,032.00 (includes base bid +Additive #1 + Tax). At the time this was posted, Terra Dynamics has Evergreen Skateparks listed as the skatepark construction subcontractor.
Over a month after the contract was awarded (yesterday), Seattle Parks Project Manager for the project, Morteza Behrooz, sent an email to advocates letting us know the contract was awarded, and that “We are in the pre-construction phase exchanging submittals, schedules and other pertinent administrative items with Terra Dynamics. As soon as a groundbreaking date is confirmed, I will keep you all posted.”
The project bid documents can be viewed here:
Rainier Beach Playfield Skatepark – project manual
Rainier Beach Playfield Skatepark – schematics
The Seattle Parks website for the project is here.
