The notion of using an existing facility rather than erecting a new housing complex for the olympians is relatively novel for the games, which generally create temporary or purpose-built athlete housing, observed aquatic sports magazine in a recent report.

With an annual enrollment of 45,000 students, with 11,000 undergraduates presently living on campus, the campus’ existing student housing is a natural choice to house the competitors, which numbered about 11,000 olympic and and 4,000 paralympic competitors in 2016. Moreover, the university’s campus, nestled in the commercial Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, includes five dining halls and five casual eating areas as well as nine athletics facilities, which will be available for training purposes.

Also lending student housing to the Olympic cause is University of Southern California (USC), which has an annual student population of 44,000 (19,000 undergraduate) and will provide housing for media among others.

As reported in a , the USC campus recently underwent a massive, $700 million development project, including the new USC Village, which combines residential college living for 2,500 students. During the summer months, when students are no longer on campus, the real estate could be available to athletes.

Using pre-existing, if seasonally underutilized, facilities is not without precedent. During the 1984 Olympic Games, which were also hosted in L.A., organizers implemented a similar strategy when they installed the Olympic village on USC’s campus and the Athletes Village on UCLA’s campus, respectively.

Some of UCLA’s facilities will also be used for the 2028 competitions. The 12,500-capacity Pauley Pavilion, an indoor arena primarily used for basketball, will host wrestling and judo, for example.

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Geffen Academy will be housed in the existing 75,000-square-foot Kinross Building, a three-level facility designed with flexible classrooms, offices and lab spaces that provide a versatile arrangement open to adaptation. The facility opened in 2001 and was originally constructed to serve as a multi-use facility for displaced departments on the UCLA campus while their facilities underwent seismic upgrades or renovations, according to the project’s . It is currently home to the Kinross Recreation Center and Graduate Student Community Center, the Fowler Museum at UCLA and the UCLA Library Conservation Center.

To accommodate the new Geffen Academy, the Kinross Building will be renovated to create classrooms, an assembly space, administrative offices, indoor athletic space and building support space, according to a statement by BNBuilders. An existing exterior area on the building’s east side will be used for outdoor arts programs. Minor site modifications will also be required, including the addition of an outdoor half-court basketball court and a new main entry. The project is being designed and constructed to achieve a minimum of LEED Silver certification.

In a statement, Jamie Awford, principal at BNBuilders, called the academy “an immensely exciting preparatory school that will offer a world-class education to Los Angeles’ promising youth.”

Construction will commence in the first quarter of 2017, and the university anticipates that Geffen Academy will be open for the 2017–2018 school year, with an approximate initial enrollment of 125 students in grades six through nine. As enrollment grows and the three upper grades are added, the university also plans to construct a new building adjacent to the Kinross Building.

The tuition-based school was funded by a $100 million gift from philanthropist David Geffen in 2015, which provided support for facility renovations, faculty and curriculum development, and other key strategic tasks. The gift will further help to fund a financial-aid program for low- and middle-income families, and UCLA projects that more than 40 percent of students will receive aid. The university also currently operates the UCLA Lab School for preschool through sixth-grade students as well as the K-12 UCLA Community School.

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