The skate park in Sar-Ko-Par Trails Park in Lenexa will bear a name with some local historic significance — Rolling Magic.
Last week, the Lenexa City Council unanimously supported the previously unnamed skate park’s new moniker. It’s the first step of what’s expected to be a complete revamp of the aging facility.
A different Lenexa skate park was called Rolling Magic
- The name Rolling Magic alludes to a 1970s-era privately run skate park that’s long since closed.
- It was located near 95th Street and I-35 and is now the site of a vacant lot.
- When the city set out to upgrade the skate park at Sar-Ko-Par Trails Park, parks and recreation director Logan Wagler said engagement with the skater community played a key role in the process.
- “We learned a lot about the history of skating, and not just in Lenexa, but across the metro,” he said. “We love this idea of embracing that history, telling that story.”
The new Rolling Magic will get a facelift
- Pushing 20 years, Wagler says the current skate park is “just kind of reaching the end of its useful life.”
- The plan is to update the facility while also making it more accessible for different age groups and skill levels with new features like rails and steps.
- Renovations to the skate park are expected to start this spring or summer with completion slated for sometime in September.
- Wagler hopes to have some sort of display at the renovated park that tells the history of the old Rolling Magic skate park.
Other big upgrades are planned for Sar-Ko-Par Trails
- On top of the skate park’s new name and pending upgrades, other areas of the 51-acre city park off 87th Street Parkway are also getting a facelift.
- The most notable project is the plan to modernize the Indian Trails Aquatic Center with new pools, facility upgrades and other water features, like a winding lazy river.
- There are also several parking upgrades planned.
- Altogether, the upgrades are stretched across three separate projects in the city’s capital improvement plan, valued altogether at $17.3 million total.
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