A Wauwatosa group is working with the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD) to create a skate park. It looks pretty sweet so far:

Now a trio of Milwaukee fine arts students, working with a Wauwatosa skateboard group, are designing a new kind of skate park - an intimate complex of concrete paths and stairs amid islands of green space - a vision they say draws on the tenets of public art and famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

"We wanted it to look like a plaza," said 22-year-old Daniel Van Housen, one of three Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design students working with Tosa Skateboarders United to design a skating venue they hope to see built in Wauwatosa's expanded Hart Park.

Of course do you know what the coolest part of the whole thing is?

And then there's the money, which Tosa Skateboarders United has vowed to raise.

The group could be at looking to raise at least a quarter-million dollars, said Schleicher.

So far, the group has pulled in nearly $3,000, and it's awaiting its non-profit designation so it can kick off a major fund-raising campaign.

What... they're not demanding taxpayer dollars? Now those are some smart folks. It's kinda sad when some people in their early 20's are smarter than most of the people in the state legislature isn't it?