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It’s a good time to be a skateboarder in San Francisco, and Justin Marks is soaking it up.

Earlier this year, the city developed United Nations Plaza, which has long been a favored spot by skaters, into a proper skatepark, pouring $2 million and a huge vote of confidence into getting people to hang out and enjoy the plaza. It worked .

Sincw 2019, Low Key Skate Shop — part gear sales, part screen printing shop, part art gallery — has operated a few blocks uphill from the UN Plaza skate park. In the last year, Justin Marks, 36, has bought out his former co-owner and leaned into the store’s role as a multipurpose space, combining the Tenderloin’

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