Twenty years ago, Jason Klotz was a local skateboarder, doing kick flips and ollies with friends at his favorite skating spot, near the Atlantic City High School complex.

Now, as the founder of Skate AC — a non-profit organization dedicated to building an inclusive skating community in South Jersey and the Jersey Shore — Klotz has spearheaded the opening of Uptown Atlantic City Skatepark , a new park built in the same place where local police used to chase him and his friends away.

Opened in August, Uptown is the second location Skate AC has helped build in the city, the first being on Sovereign Avenue in 2018. The opening was a full-circle moment for the man whose family history in nearby Margate stretches back to the 1930s.

“When the city originally told me that was the locati

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