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The Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre under construction in May 2014. The facility was funded by the Government of Canada, the Government of Ontario, the City of Toronto and the University of Toronto. In 2009, students at the University of Toronto Scarborough voted in favour of a 25-year levy which will contribute about $30 million to the facility. [4]
The following is a list of community and recreation centres in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [1] The city operates 152 recreation centres across the city. [2] As part of the Toronto 2015 Pan American and Parapan American Games, the Etobicoke Olympium [3] and the Toronto Track and Field Centre [4] will be closed, renovated, and will reopen on September 2, 2014.
The Goldring Centre for High Performance Sport is a 2,000 seat [2] indoor arena facility at the University of Toronto's main campus in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is home to the university's Varsity Blues basketball and volleyball teams.
The "Shiftingravity" expansion has expanded fitness offerings, a new children's area and activity centre, a consolidated pro shop and 200 additional parking spaces. [2] The location on Church Street is now the site of Barbara Hall Park, and the 1906 clubhouse is now a community centre, "The 519". The north wall of the curling rink building on ...
The new Toronto Blizzard returned to Varsity in 1987 as part of the Canadian Soccer League but would move to the smaller Centennial Park Stadium as a cost-cutting move. They returned in 1993 as a member of the American Professional Soccer League but again were forced to move, this time to Lamport Stadium, again due to financial difficulties.
The Markham Pan Am Centre is a multi-purpose community and aquatics centre located in the new downtown area of Markham, Ontario, Canada. The facility was designed to host the badminton , table tennis and water polo events for the 2015 Pan American Games , held in nearby Toronto in July and August, 2015.
It is home to the York Lions Track and Field Team and the York University Track Club. Opened in 1979, the facility is used by both professional and amateur athletes. The indoor centre features: [2] five-lane 200 metre banked oval track; eight-lane 100 metre sprint/hurdle runway with photo-timers booth; pole vaulting area (10 metre clearance)
The stadium was originally named for Centennial Park, which it is located in and opened during Canada's centennial year of 1967; the stadium was opened in 1975, eight years after the centennial. In 2017, there were calls and support for the stadium to be renamed after former mayor Rob Ford [ 6 ] as Rob Ford Memorial Stadium , [ 7 ] but city ...