

The walls and floors are covered in graffiti and questionable messages, but the two couples plan to refurbish the building over the next few months. They bought the site last month for $850,000, which includes a former 8,000-square-foot bar. The Kramers, who own Kramer Contracting in Rochester, keep tabs on property development in the city and found a prime location in the former Whiskey Bones Roadhouse site on the north side. Young Charlie Kramer has been skating for about three years, but he and other skateboarders in the area must travel at least an hour to skate at an indoor park during the winter. “We’ve just kind of always been watching.”

“We maybe talked about it a couple of years ago and just toyed with the idea,” Laura Kramer said. Dubbed “the Garden” - after a family joke over where to put a skate ramp - the indoor park could be open by the end of the year. The Kramers are partnering with Laura’s brother and sister-in-law, Brad and Nina Webbles, to create a new indoor facility for skaters. But the city hasn’t had an indoor skate park in years.
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Rochester has a skate park near Silver Lake that’s busy in summer - it’s where residents like pro skateboarder Alec Majerus learned to shred.

ROCHESTER – Even as Laura and Adam Kramer watched their 11-year-old son Charlie get into skateboarding, there was always a nagging question: Where could people skate in Rochester in the winter?
