please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . november 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message this article relies too much on references to primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . november 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message spohn ranch is a skatepark design and construction firm based in industry california . the firm specializes in the construction and design of concrete skateparks and skate plazas skateable art sculptures several styles of ramps and courses for skateboarding bmx and motocross events . contents 1 history 2 notable parks 3 references 4 external links history edit the company began in the 1980s when founder and president aaron spohn was living in venice beach california . he and his friends would skate the streets of venice and occasionally build makeshift ramps on the boardwalk . the city would tolerate these ramps for a few weeks at a time before tearing them out . 1 spohn lobbied for several years for the city of venice beach to build a skatepark where he and other skaters could safely and legally skate . spohn eventually built a half pipe in his backyard which he named spohn ranch . 1 contest organizers who began approaching spohn about building ramps for their events . in the early 1990s the espn television network developed the x games annual sports event and in 1995 spohn designed and built courses for the inaugural event . 2 after a few years of working with the x games and the gravity games and vans triple crown municipalities which began approaching spohn ranch for help with building permanent outdoor facilities . spohn asked friends and family members to join his company to develop it into a full time job . 1 working with municipalities which and groups of volunteers spohn ranch worked primarily in the municipal sector helping design and build skateparks . the company s work presently focuses primarily on the development of concrete facilities for skateboarding bmx bike riding and inline skating . ramp lines make up about 10 % of the company s business while special events and commercial shoots have been reduced to about 5 % of yearly revenue . 3 the company has also developed pre cast concrete skate features for skatepark construction . 4 and designed skateparks as community spaces or skateable art in 2008 . 5 notable parks edit daybreak sculpture garden south jordan utah ambassador skate plaza los angeles california bethune point skatepark daytona beach florida possum creek skatepark gainesville florida 4 concrete bowl guantanamo bay naval base cuba 6 references edit a b c history . spohn ranch . two skatepark companies compete for sl job planning costs less that expected . storm lake pilot tribune . 9 june 2010 . our process . spohn ranch . a b 18 000 square foot possum creek skatepark ready . the gainesville sun . 7 may 2010 . https web.archive.org web 20110712231324 http www.huckmagazine.com blog spohn ranch skateparks . archived from the original on july 12 2011 . retrieved september 30 2010 . missing or empty title help portfolio . spohn ranch . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title spohn ranch & oldid 738747784 categories companies established in 1992companies based in los angeles county californiaskateboarding companieshidden categories pages with citations lacking titlespages with citations having bare urlsarticles needing additional references from november 2014all articles needing additional referencesarticles lacking reliable references from november 2014all articles lacking reliable referencesall articles with specifically marked weasel worded phrasesarticles with specifically marked weasel worded phrases from november 2014 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 september 2016 at 20 43 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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