The park formerly known as Perugia will have a built-in place to ride your skateboard. That’s actually old news — skateboard advocates rallied to raise money for the planned $50,000 “skatedot” feature in the Summit and John park as the city fell back on community groups to raise funds to complete the full $300,000 design for the project. But what is news is that the skateboard feature — and other elements that were planned to be part of the park’s ‘Phase 2’ of construction such as the path, p-patches and benches — are likely to be completed along with the bulk of the park in ‘Phase 1’ this spring if construction bids come in as low as expected, according to this note from skateboard advocacy group SeattleSkateparks.org.

The original design called for the skate feature to be included in the southwest corner of the park (bottom right in the drawing near the DEF labels). We haven’t heard an update from parks if that is still the plan for the final design.

Funds to complete the full design of the park were provided by an allocation of $150,000 from the Seattle Parks Levy program. In total, the park has a budget around $438,000 including costs from the planning phases.

The Capitol Hill Community Council’s Unpaving Paradise committee is also working with Seattle Parks and the Department of Transportation to turn E. John street into a pedestrian area and close the street to through traffic.