The Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre, a 365,000 square foot sports facility. TPASC opened in September 2014 and later hosted the Pan Am and Parapan American Games in 2015. It is the current home of UTSC’s Department of Athletics and Recreation.
TPASC was made possible through a joint financial venture between the federal government, the City of Toronto, and the University of Toronto. A student tuition levy contributed $30 million, or 17%, of the facility’s total cost of $205 million (source: “Historical Timeline” University of Toronto Scarborough About Us, accessed on February 24, 2022 at https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/aboutus/historical-timeline).
The levy was passed through a referendum, with a turnout of 2,337 votes, held in March 2010. The levy consists of a payment of $40 for full-time students and $8 for part time students, with an annual inflation of 4% until 2014. After that point, full-time students will pay $140 and part-time students will pay $28 towards the total cost (source: Natalie Sequeira, “UTSC Gets Pan Am Levy,” The Varsity, March 22, 2010).
“The concept of the place was to bring, for me, to bring in youth and families from the local area onto the university campus, experience it, and then hopefully those children as they grow, are comfortable to think about going to university. It becomes a place that’s just part of their neighbourhood and part of their experience.”
— Kim McLean, Chief Administrative Officer of U of T (Source: Kim McLean, 2014).
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No author listed. “Historical Timeline.” University of Toronto Scarborough About Us. Accessed on February 24, 2022 at https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/aboutus/historical-timeline.
Sharif, Tashera and Sahra Togone. Interview with Kim McLean. Oral history conducted by Tashera Sharif and Sahra Togone, Scarborough Oral History Project, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, 2014. https://sohp.digital.utsc.utoronto.ca/islandora/object/nearbystudies:580.
Sequeira, Natalie. “UTSC Gets Pan Am Levy.” The Varsity, March 22, 2010. Accessed at https://thevarsity.ca/2010/03/22/utsc-gets-pan-am-levy/.
All photos from 2022 were taken by Maria Bacchus
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