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Recreation Facility Naming Review and Recommendation
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Summary and Background Information: As a follow up to the initial facility naming presentation on 5/22/17, the Commerce City Parks, Recreation & Golf (PRG) Advisory Committee would like to share their revised recommendations regarding facility names for the existing and new recreation centers. Bret Walker, PRG Advisory Committee Co-Chair, will share the proposed names for the existing commerce city recreation center on behalf of the advisory committee, as well as recommendation for the new recreation center. The presentation will review the facility naming policy (Council Policy #CP-7 adopted by City Council on 9/15/14), the steps that have been taken to reach the recommendation, and the recommended names. The PRG Advisory Committee has narrowed down the list of names for the existing recreation center to three names. They would like City Council to make the final selection. Those names, with a summary for each, are presented alphabetically:
Cannonball Creek Recreation Center
This name was brought forth in an effort to tie Commerce City’s rich history to the facility name. Advisory members reviewed information published by the Commerce City Historical Society, and made this connection. If selected, they would intend to incorporate educational signage. The opportunity to educate youth and adults alike was intriguing to some members.
In 1832, Louis Vasquez built a trading post on the east banks of Cannonball Creek. Today this stream is known as Clear Creek. Vasquez’s Fort Convenience was in the area of the present-day Adams County Social Services Building at 4200 E. 72nd Avenue.
Cannonball Creek Recreation Center would be a great name to tie all the great things about the origins of the city to all the great new things happening in Commerce City without utilizing some of the original town names. This recommendation connects the two recreation centers via “creek” and “ridge” and bonds al...
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