READING, Pa. – The city of Reading will break ground Thursday on its long-anticipated skate park at 601 Canal Street.<\/p>\n
The ceremony will be hosted jointly by the city, Reading Skatepark Association and Holistic Skate Shop. It is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m.,\u00a0rain or shine.<\/p>\n
The groundbreaking is the next step in the $2.344 million project. Spots, Stevens and McCoy (SSM) Group is contracted to complete the installation of the park’s features\u00a0\u2013 such as stairs, bowls and rails\u00a0\u2013 for roughly $1.6 million.<\/p>\n
Grind Line and Land Tech is contracted to complete the park’s land development and stormwater management facilities for roughly $745,000. The city also received $290,000 in grants, according to a press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – The city of Reading will break ground Thursday on its long-anticipated skate park at 601…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-155319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}