A skatepark in Wright City is one step closer to reality as the board of aldermen approved a bid for the design phase of the project at their May 8 meeting.
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A skatepark in Wright City is one step closer to reality as the board of aldermen approved a bid for the design phase of the project at their May 8 meeting. The bid was awarded to Bax Engineering for $92,475.
Mayor Michelle Heiliger said they would bring in American Ramp Company to help with the design process.
The skatepark will be a part of the city’s new, 62-acre park located north of Westwoods Road where construction started earlier this year.
The park is being paid for in part by a $490,000 grant with a 50% matching requirement the city received from the Land, Water and Conservation Fund in October 2024. That grant comes with a 50% matching requirement, allowing the city to use a significant amount of funds for the skatepark project, from the design phase all the way to construction.
City Clerk Abbie Ogborn clarified the city would be using grant funds to cover half of the design costs with the city footing the other half of the bill.
She said they tentatively expected to receive the completed designs in the fall of this year.
Heiliger acknowledged the process was moving slowly but stated that was due to the grant requirements, since it includes federal funding.
“It’s a little more complicated because there’s federal dollars involved with this grant,” said Heiliger. “So every time we take a step, we have to send it off to a committee who then has to approve whatever we’re doing.”
She said they had already received approval for the design phase.
Once the design phase is complete, American Ramp Company plans to hold public meetings with the city and residents to take input on what citizens want to see out of their skatepark.
“We’ll invite people in to have comments, conversations about what they want to see in the skatepark, and then off we’ll go,” said Heiliger.
The city also awarded a bid to Karrenbrock Construction for concrete work on that park for $1.4 million in January. Ogborn said they were delayed by weather but started work on that project on the week of May 5 and she expected them to start pouring concrete this week depending on weather.
Karrenbrock will be working on the first 20 acres of the park building a parking lot along with the concrete for amenities like bathrooms and a concession stand.
The first 20 acres have already been designed and are expected to include three full-sized baseball fields and one T-ball field along with the bathrooms and concession stand as well as a batting cage.
