SPOHN RANCH RENDERINGS FOR NEWPORT PUBLIC SKATEPARK.

FONS’ decision to engage Spohn Ranch is the result of engaging the community’s most exciting skaters and the three of the country’s top park builders. FONS’ Design Committee met and discussed plans throughout 2020 and engaged three prominent skate park builders to submit conceptual plans. Ultimately, the designs presented by Spohn Ranch were the unanimous choice by the committee’s members.

A final design for the skate park would be approved by Rhode Island's Interlocal Trust to ensure compliance with its newly adopted skate park policies. Construction of any skate park would not proceed prior to receiving approval of the proposed design in writing from the city’s insurer, the RI Interlocal Trust. Of course, the City of Newport shall retain the right to end the project if conditions of the RI Interlocal Trust approval are determined to be too burdensome.

FONS has engaged Spohn Ranch, Inc. to design and build the skatepark Spohn Ranch is based out of California, and has designed and built world class skateparks all over the United States. 

Their portfolio can be viewed at: www.spohnranch.com.

Spohn Ranch began as a community, anchored by Aaron Spohn’s backyard half-pipe, and grew into an award-winning skatepark design-build firm. A cornerstone of wheel sports progression for over 30 years, Spohn Ranch’s Los Angeles backyard roots have spread globally, culminating in hundreds of cutting-edge creations.

Via three decades of municipal skatepark projects, spanning 40+ states, 15+ countries and a variety of corporate clients including Red Bull and Vans, Spohn Ranch’s skatepark designers and skatepark builders have mastered a broad range of techniques specific to creating the highest-quality wheel-focused terrain possible.

With a firsthand passion for skateboarding and wheel sports, the Spohn Ranch family of highly-skilled craftsmen, including landscape designers, iron workers, grading wizards and ACI-certified shotcrete nozzlemen, pride themselves on designing and building skateparks with the relentless dedication to detail and architectural finesse that Spohn Ranch is known for.