Frisco Parks and Recreation officials on Oct. 19 presented an early concept for a “gravity riding” biking tower at a park near the upcoming PGA Frisco headquarters, as originally reported by Community Impact Newspapers.
Presented as a roughly 40-foot-tall fixture for cyclists, the tower would sit on the 164-acre Northwest Community Park east of Teel Parkway. Frisco Parks and Recreation Director Shannon Coates presented construction plans for the park to the city council during the Oct. 19 work session, a project estimated to cost $24.5 million.
Renderings showed a $2.43 million, 100-foot tower. However, Coates said the actual feature will be scaled down in size and cost.
Coates said the tower gives cyclists the ability to build up enough speed to feed into “gravity trails,” which the plans estimate will wind about 9.5 miles through the park. A dog park, space for food trucks, splash pads and playgrounds are also featured in the park plans.
“You would build up enough speed to feed into these trails to be able to have that very advanced riding experience,” Coates said in the presentation. “It will become a facility where you, as a beginner — or child as a beginner — could go out there and learn to bike, and then progressively continue to move throughout the park and throughout the system as you get better and better at it.”
A final design is expected by the end of 2022, according to the city.
