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LOVE Malmö June 5-7 2026 Analogue embodied experience. Schedule to be announced. From Friday to Sunday. Presented by City of Malmö, @skatephilly @bryggerietskateorg Artwork @ritdynamit , skate sound @makkebengtsson , music @sondrem Get out here!

On Friday, we joined @phillymayor to cut the ribbon on a reimagined Thomas Paine Plaza outside the Municipal Services Building! What's new at Paine? This $18 million project delivered: - Improvements to the roof system below the plaza paving - Shade structures with table and chair seating areas - Metal and wooden bench areas for sitting - A redesigned skate plaza space - Landscaping, including a variety of flowers, trees, and deep blue-hued planters that introduce color throughout the site - Over 50 bike parking spaces - ADA-accessible ramp providing an accessible path from the sidewalk to the front of the building - Restoration of the existing city-owned 40ft bronze and granite sculpture, Government of the People - Future bronze statue of historic trail blazer and Philadelphian, Sadie T.M. Alexander (to be installed in 2027) A big shout-out to @skatephilly and @vans for supporting the new skate plaza with a $300,000 contribution, @q3whocares for keeping the celebration lively, and Philly's own @jahbulb for sharing some inspiring words and helping us cut that ribbon! Swipe through for some highlights 👉

FRIDAY APRIL 17 - 3PM / 1401 JFK BLVD. Join us, @vansskate and the City of Philadelphia, for the ribbon cutting and opening of the new skate plaza at the Municipal Services Building.

FRIDAY APRIL 17 - 3PM / 1401 JFK BLVD. Join us, @vansskate and the City of Philadelphia, for the ribbon cutting and opening of the new skate plaza at the Municipal Services Building. More details coming soon. 🎥 @meyer215

It’s a great honor to be selected for @time ’s list of 100 places to visit in 2026. Destinations are selected based on places that offer unique experiences. Sadly, the original experience of skating LOVE Park is no more, but the heritage of Philadelphia’s skate scene lives on. It will be seeing a new chapter opening with the renovation of the Municipal Building soon, thanks to the work of @skatephilly and @cityofphiladelphia . Malmö is incredibly proud to host this heritage and the award is a testament to the value that skateboarding can bring to the life of cities. LOVE Malmö is nothing without the stories and heritage created by the skaters of Philadelphia. This one belongs to you.

For the opening of LOVE Malmö, we worked with @skatephilly to bring the history of LOVE Park to the people of Malmö. Follow the history here over the coming weeks. FROM LOVE PARK TO LOVE MALMÖ LOVE Malmö – Not a skatepark Love Malmö is many things all at once. It is a pedestrian walkway, a cultural monument, a stage and a lounging-space. One thing it is not, however, is a skatepark. Around the world, skateboarders are offered skateparks as a means of removing them from urban spaces. LOVE Malmö invites skateboarding to be a part of the life of Malmö. LOVE Malmö sets out to allow the culture and history of LOVE Park skateboarding to continue and evolve. As a pedestrian space, it complements the schoolyard of Rådmansvången School and sits nestled in between the Triangle Garage, Art Centre Square, and St Johannes Church, all important spaces in Malmö’s skateboarding history.   LOVE Malmö is located at Klerkgatan to provide a social space for students at the Rådmansvången school and local residents. The presence of skateboarding is introduced as a means of activating the area and breathing life into an unused space in the city. Photos by @blabacphoto and @gustaveden

Skate Philly and Skate Malmö present: LOVE MALMÖ OPENING SATURDAY JUNE 1 / 12.00-19.00 Join the skateboarders of Philadelphia and Malmö for a full day of celebration of LOVE Park. Grand opening / Team line session / Trash can jam / More….. - Know your history MC TIM O’CONNOR / DJ BESH ONE @skatephilly @skatemalmo.se @love.malmo

Through extensive engagement over the past six months with the city and @ground_reconsidered , we are happy to share that an updated concept for Thomas Paine Plaza which includes space for skateboarding, received final approval from the Philadelphia Art Commission! Note that these renderings are not accurate as to the final design, but show the approved area and inclusion of OG Muni Benches that were saved last summer. We are now working on finalizing a design layout that incorporates salvaged granite materials from Muni, Love Park, and City Hall into a new plaza that can allow our community to continue to thrive downtown for generations to come. Stay tuned for updates over the coming months.

Front Street Park featuring @joebiewan @tnelzzdawg @tolhaus @tanchyurp @kevinliedtke is live on @skatejawn if you haven’t peeped it yet. Link in bio. 🎥 @brian_panebianco 🎵 @q3whocares

Big shoutout to everyone who helped repaint the ground at Rizzo last night! #VansCheckerboardDay @thegoodpush See you Saturday at the Rizzo Skate Jam. 2-4PM! @nocturnalskate @5thpocketskateparks @vansskate @redbullskate @federaldonuts Photos: @duhcota

The enhancements at Rizzo Rink are now complete and skate-able. In a few weeks we will be hosting a volunteer-based painting session, to enhance the ground surface, followed by an opening skate jam! Stay tuned for information on these activations. This project was a great example of community coming together to support an idea, and help get granite salvaged from Love Park out of storage and into the scene. We could not have done this without the tremendous effort and work from #loveparkheather and other volunteers who spent their own time and money to salvage these materials in the winter of 2016, after the demolition of Love Park. Projects like this have many levels of advocacy requiring presentation and approval from channels including City Council, neighborhood associations, Recreation Center groups and from the existing communities these spaces are in. It takes a lot of time and effort which we are committed to. Thanks to our relationship with @philaparkandrec and The Pennsport Civic Association, we were able to get a concept approved, with the support we needed from the community. Once approved, our friends at @vansskate stepped up to financially support and we aligned with our partners at @5thpocketskateparks to execute the work. Thank you to all who had a part in this! SkatePhilly is committed to continuing to advocate for the skate community and to creating new places to skate, with a focus on repurposing the salvaged Love granite. We are a volunteer based organization. If you want to get involved, please DM or send us an email.

Thank you to everyone who showed up to the Pennsport community meeting at Rizzo Rink last night! There was some great dialogue and we appreciate all of you who voiced your opinions. We are one step closer to installing permanent skateable features in the space! We hope to have an update to share in the coming weeks. Thanks to our partners @philaparkandrec @5thpocketskateparks @nocturnalskate @vansskate