#Headlines: Searching for Gaylord Sackler

The Gaylord Sackler Memorial Skate Park opened in the Mueller neighborhood of Central Austin last summer, an approximately 15,000-square-foot haven for skaters also featuring the first concrete pump track for BMX bikes ever built in Texas. There’s just one problem — Gaylord Sackler is not a real person, and that’s not actually the park’s name. 

The official title of the facility is the Mueller Southeast Greenway Skate Park and Pump Track, and if you shoot that name into Google you’ll find plenty of equally official results. But if you instead act like a normal person and search for “Mueller skatepark,” or maybe you’re just tooling around on Google Maps and come across the park on your own, Gaylord Sackler is the name you’ll see. Isn’t that odd?

"Searching for Gaylord Sackler", July 25, 2023.

James Rambin, austin.towers.net