When you're coming up to Beech Street, you can see a big pink warehouse with colorful murals on it.

The garage door is open, so you can hear like some wheels and some music drifting out.

And then as you get closer.

This is Beech Street skate Park that we're in, and a group of us built it two years ago to create a place to skate, especially in the winter since it gets snowy and dark here.

It's in a shared warehouse space with the food pantry.

We call it like a pop up skatepark.

It all breaks down and stores away so that they can use the warehouse for getting food out to people, which is most important.

And then we set it up every week so folks can come skate it.

It's not open year round.

We kind of go like when the weather gets gross to when the weather stops being gross, more or less.

We always have it open at least two days a week.

We've got like an all ages skate session this year.

That's on Tuesday nights.

The things that like are really cool to see for me is the intergenerational stuff.

Different people are teaching each other.

I've always wanted to learn how to skate when I was little.

Thing is, we only had the skate park and we didn't have anyone to teach there.

You either just fell a whole bunch of times until you eventually got it and get judged.

Or you come here, get taught about it, and get congratulated on your mistakes because you learn from them.

There's no shame or judgment here.

It's just really nice to be here.

I can finally be myself somewhere I really enjoy.

I've been through a lot of skate parks that I've used as my local for weeks on end, or like a month, and usually I feel like it's pretty anti-social, but like, you can walk in here and even if you haven't been in here before, you can feel like you can skate.

You're not feeling like you're outcasted or like you might be in someone's way.

A lot of the folks who were part of building the space or running the space are women, queer people, trans people, people of color.

It's been so important to all of us to make sure that skating feels exciting and positive and accessible, and it's something that anyone who wants to can step into.