Urban Youth Park didn’t start with a business plan.
It started with Jessica—a mom, a coach, and a mission.

As a lifelong athlete and gymnastics coach, Jessica naturally encouraged her four children to try gymnastics. But her sons never quite connected with it—it felt too structured, too traditional, too “not them.”

Then something shifted: her oldest son discovered parkour—and he lit up.
The creativity, the confidence, the movement—it changed him.

There was no other activity that trained the full body—and the full self—like this.

Jessica fell in love with it too. Not just as a coach, but as a mom.

But there was no place close by that offered parkour training for her son. He practiced outside, learned from YouTube, and entered a few competitions—for fun. He won.

On the drive home from one of those competitions, her dad said something wild: “We should open a gym.”
Jessica laughed it off at first. The idea felt too big, too impossible.

But within a week, they had a space, a few key partners, and a new kind of dream in motion.

Jessica pulled together what she had—a big vision, a deep belief in kids, and the support of her dad—and got to work.

They built the place.
The place where kids could move with purpose.
The place where they could be challenged without pressure, and celebrated without conditions.
The place where movement became a language of confidence, focus, and resilience.

Jessica didn’t set out to build a gym.

She set out to build a home for growth—for kids, for families, and for coaches who cared deeply about the lives they could change.

Today, Urban Youth Park is more than a movement space.

It’s a mission to change the lives of 10,000 families by building 20 communities rooted in movement, growth, and connection.

And it all started with one mom, one kid, and one yes to something that mattered.