Fate of Floating Skateboard Park Remains Adrift

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After a four-week journey down the Mississippi River, the Red Bull Mississippi Grind's floating skateboard park has not quite found the welcome it expected in New Orleans. A group of skate enthusiasts built the floating skate park in Minneapolis and filmed its travels, gifting the $150,000 park to the city at the end of their journey in October.

The original idea was met with enthusiasm from skateboarders in New Orleans, which has no city-owned skate parks, but city officials are more wary as they decide whether to accept the gift, an issue that will be put to a vote at the New Orleans Recreation Development Commission meeting in February.

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