Part of Ocean City’s Indian Summer Weekend festivities will be the official ribbon-cutting for the new “Cape May County Skate Park in Ocean City” at noon Saturday (Oct. 10) at the park at Fifth Street and Asbury Avenue.
Mayor Jay A. Gillian will be joined by Cape May County freeholders, City Council members and key community members.
The event will take place during the Fall Block Party on Saturday on Asbury Avenue between Fifth and 14th streets. For more information, call 609-525-9333.
The park opened on Sept. 24 and within minutes word began to spread about the long-awaited completion of the state-of-the-art concrete facility.
The park is open to the public at no charge from 9 a.m. to dusk daily and subject to a set of rules (now enforced by on-site staff).
The opening of the facility marked the fulfillment of a promise by the city administration to replace a smaller skateboard park that was closed by the city in 2011 due to safety concerns.
The project cost a little less than $750,000, and the city will be reimbursed $500,000 from a Green Acres Cape May County Recreation Grant that was announced in September 2014. City Council had already approved a capital plan that calls for borrowing $250,000 for the balance of the project.
First Ward Councilman Mike DeVlieger spearheaded a planning committee that organized the effort to create the park.
