Alongside redesign and reconstruction, The Redo White Birch Project advocates for the implementation of a free summer skateboard program for youth upon completion.
Future Goals include implementing official after-school programming for Hazelwood West High School and providing a free Concrete Certification class through Skate4Concrete.
The Solution
Methods to revitalize White Birch include; pouring new concrete, increasing function and flow, constructing new permanent obstacles designed by a skatepark development firm, removing the fence implementing regular programming and maximizing curb appeal.
With the community’s needs in mind and proper reconstruction, Hazelwood will benefit from an exponential return on its initial investment into the skatepark, mitigating woes for the city and its skaters.
Lauren brew - Lead Advocate
The Redo White Birch Project (RWB) was founded by L Brew, a Chicago-based skateboarder, writer, and community organizer from St. Louis, MO. Brew is one of 12 Fellows nationwide who participated in The Skatepark Project’s very first BIPOC Fellowship.
Additionally, Brew is President of froSkate, an organization that exists to provide resources and safe, inclusive, shame-free space to BIPOC, Women, Trans, GNC and LGBTQIA+ skaters.
Brew has led crowds of thousands throughout the streets of downtown Chicago, spoken on panels alongside Olympians, was featured by Facebook in 2021 for Black History Month, and became the first Black woman to design a Dunk High with Nike SB in 2022, alongside froSkate’s founder, Karlie Thornton.
Her greatest honor yet was in 2023, when she was asked to donate the pair of Dunks she wore during froSkate’s Nike SB promotional shoots to The Smithsonian Museum of American History, where they’re held today.
