Allin and Tony Hawk Plan Free Public Skate Park at Heritage Park

Darby Allin, the professional wrestler and longtime skateboarder, announced in early November that he and skateboarding legend Tony Hawk have received local approval to build a free, public skate park on a plot of county land in Heritage Park in McDonough, Georgia. Allin made the announcement during an appearance at a 1FW event in Henry County and said the county has provided the site and cleared the project to move forward.

Allin said Henry County is providing 37,500 square feet in Heritage Park to repurpose an existing arena into a year-round skate and creative space. He told the audience the project was approved in February 2025 and that the effort will receive technical assistance from Hawk’s charity, The Skatepark Project. The initiative is being funded in part through a public fundraising page; the campaign has raised about $1,900 toward a $50,000 goal.

Speaking about the local need for a facility, Allin said he moved to the area in 2019 and discovered the nearest skate park was about 30 minutes away. He described skateboarding as central to his life and said he climbed Mount Everest in June 2025 to raise money for The Skatepark Project. “Skateboarding changes lives,” he...