It felt like the community was supportive of our idea. “We were meeting with Parks and Recreation, had a couple community meetings. They developed a plan and started meeting with the relevant parties before things climbed all the way up to Grand Junction’s power brokers. “But the nice thing was it was all under one roof.”Ī meeting with city council turns out to be an 'ambush'īullen says now that he didn’t realize how much he’d bitten off with the project. We went and played Wallyball, all kinds of activities,” Bullen said.
We went from the swimming pool to the gym where we were able to play basketball. One had just been built and he took us there on a weekend and it was great because we were able to jump from activity to activity. “My uncle had a rec center very close to his house, and it was kind of a new concept.
That’s where he fell in love with rec centers and, when it came time for a senior project, he sought to get one built. Bullen grew up in Grand Junction but visited family on the Front Range often. Twenty-three years ago, as a high school senior with a plan to better his community, Lucas Bullen was invited to a breakfast with the Grand Junction City Council where he’d get his first taste of how messy municipal government can be.īullen’s arc is one chapter in the larger effort to bring a community recreation center to Grand Junction - something that was first pitched in the 1970s and only finally passed in April.
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