Could skateboarders revive a struggling park by building their own skate plaza?

It's a sweltering July day and a group of young people are hustling around a rented rotating cement mixer.

Each has a job. One rips open bags of concrete mix. Another wearing a face mask dumps it into the mixer. A third pours water in. Then they upend the mixer and go to work with shovels, scooping the wet concrete onto a frame of steel bars and wood they built themselves.

They're not contractors, they're skateboarders. And this isn't a construction site; it's a largely-forgotten basketball court tucked away behind some apartments near the University of Cincinnati. Skaters simply call it "The Courts."

Longtime skateboarder Mason Russell organized the concrete pour for the three-foot-high embankment. He says it's all about building something for the community.

"I put a GoFundMe together