Plenty of companies are making handmade skateboards (see here, here, and here). What separates聽the Salemtown Board Co. 聽is that聽the company's profits are invested into the lives of at-risk youth in Nashville, Tennessee.
Will Anderson, a Florida native, grew up as a skate rat. After grad school and a move聽to Nashville in 2011, he began searching for a place to pair his passion for skating with a passion for youth. He found his opportunity in the impoverished聽neighborhood of Salemtown, which sits a mile north of the city鈥檚 center. Anderson鈥檚 skate company, named after the neighborhood it serves, now employs three young men from the community, all of whom were at risk for violence and prison.
The Lookout is made from hand-painted reclaimed oak, rolling smooth on 78-durometer urethane wheeks聽and fast on ABEC-7 bearings. It鈥檚 the perfect cruiser for that former shredder聽in your life that still flips through Thrasher during his lunch break. And the knowledge that your purchase is helping change聽a young man's life? That鈥檚 money well spent.聽
$250,