Cleveland’s skateboarding community is gearing up for a significant change.Tri-Star Skateboards, which started in 2004 selling boards out of the back of a van, grew into a large store offering an indoor skatepark and, at one time, a memorabilia museum.The owners plan to close in December.The warehouse on Brook Park Road has housed a community that loves to get heart rates pumping.
Garcia said he first got interested in skateboarding after a friend gave him their old skateboard.'It's something about skateboarding, you know; you will never stop once you start,” Garcia said.Soon, hitting the ramps and rails will halt. Snellenberger said the decision to close wasn’t easy.“We had a lot of roof damage, and a storm happened in January,” Snellenberger said. “We closed the shop for two months, reopened that in April, and just did any necessary repairs.