Skidmark Skatemag #36 | Page 16

Slums Lot is located on prime real estate, along a major transportation corridor that is ripe for redevelopment. The location is too valuable to remain vacant for long. Eventually Slums Lot will be replaced with condos, coffee shops, and cookie-cutter corporations. When that inevitable day arrives, Rastatter will take his trowel and seek out his next cutty project. “It’s definitely about developing a community of skateboarders that want to skate outside the skate park, where there aren’t any guidelines or rules, and promoting the DIY aspect of skateboarding,” he says.