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Land Bank Gets First Look At Bike Park Concepts

Land Bank Gets First Look At Bike Park Concepts

One of the concepts for the Land Bank’s bike park that will be presented to the Nantucket Land Bank Commission on Tuesday. The Nantucket Land…

Monday, Jan 27

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One of the concepts for the Land Bank’s bike park that will be presented to the Nantucket Land Bank Commission on Tuesday. The Nantucket Land Bank Commission will get its first look at potential concepts for a proposed bike park being developed at a 25-acre property it owns off Milestone Road.

Designed by a team of consultants led by the Horsley Witten Group, the three concepts under consideration all feature variations of several elements, including a pump track, a jumps area, a "flow trail," a progressive skills development area, and a dedicated bicycle playground for kids. A concept for a "pump track" presented to the Land Bank by its bike park consultants. The property, located just east of the Holdgate Partners pit and Tetawkimmo Drive off Milestone Road, has been owned by the Land Bank since 1989. The possibility of constructing a bike park at the property, first floated in 2023, began with an idea “to give the youth of Nantucket a healthy outlet," Land Bank Commissioner Neil Paterson said at the time.

The commission will publicly review the three concepts prsented by the project consults on Tuesday, January 28 during the Land Bank’s regular meeting scheduled for 4 p.m. at its office at 22 Broad Street. A community meeting will be held at some point in March. A "flow trail" is another element of the proposed Land Bank bike park If all goes according to plan, the Land Bank and its consultants will spend the rest of the year engaged […]

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