Name the city’s new rec center
If you think naming a recreation center is so easy, now you have your chance to prove it.
Lawrence City Hall has set up a website to solicit suggestions on names for the new 181,000-square-foot recreation center that will open at Rock Chalk Park later this year.
Commissioners are seeking help after balking at the name suggested by city-hired consultants: SportQuest. The city wants feedback on five possible names: SportQuest, Ad Astra Center, OneLawrence Center, Kanza Center and Freedom Center. The website, lawrenceks.org/recreation-center-naming, also gives users the chance to suggest other names.
City commissioners ultimately will have the final say on naming the center, which will include basketball, volleyball, indoor soccer and fitness facilities. Commissioner Jeremy Farmer, who is working with a naming committee, expects the issue to be before commissioners in early May. The city plans to take comments through April 25.