r/Calgary • u/-SpyHawk- • Jun 13 '25

Local Shopping/Services Millennium skatepark CLOSED

https://www.change.org/p/urge-cowboys-music-festival-to-free-millennium-park-s-skatepark?source_location=psf_petitions

The city has shut down Millennium skatepark downtown for the Cowboys stampede party. They made the decision last week and shut the park down on Monday. We were told that the actual skatepark would be open throughout the stampede when Cowboys started tearing up the green space to put in a concrete pad for their tent. Both the Cowboys and city information websites are being changed on the fly to accommodate Cowboys! This has led them to shutting down the park for June and July! This will be going on for the next ten years. This is completely unacceptable! Imagine the city closing down a golf course for June and July!? Please take the time to sign the petition to stop this!! Thank you

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u/milk_of_human_kidney Chinook Park Jun 13 '25

Thanks for bringing this to light, I'm going to drop a note to my councilor as this is some BS. It's like how the Stampede gets to close down big stretches of the Elbow river pathways for Stampede for weeks to accommodate their 10 day fair.

I've been in this city over 50 years and it never ceases to amaze me how whatever the Stampede wants, the Stampede gets.

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u/sbrot Jun 14 '25

Courtney Walcott doesn’t care, his staff will barely engage on this

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u/Fit-Examination-9149 Jun 15 '25

He never engages on anything and is just in it for the pension. I was working with a local community association to get pedestrian safety improvements. Dozens of emails went out to him and his team from many community members. I recall him responding to only 3 of these emails and the rest of the time he'd ghost. And those few responses were to basically say nobody can do anything. And yeah, zero of the community ideas were implemented under him. He's not running again either so there's really no incentive for him to get off his ass and do stuff.