UCSD Athletic Complex Gets OK
A financing plan and architect for a $33.5-million recreation complex at UC San Diego were approved Friday by the state Board of Regents in San Francisco.
Funding for the 170,000-square-foot recreation-intramural and athletic complex, scheduled to be completed in 1994, will include $29.5 million in bonds, $2 million in registration fees and $2 million in campus discretionary funds.
Once the complex is completed, students will be assessed $70 per quarter to help pay for its construction and operation, with revenue from special events, concessions and gifts also going toward operating costs.
The project, to be on a nearly 4-acre site at the northwestern part of the campus, will include a gymnasium with five basketball courts, an area that can accommodate up to 5,000 seats for campus events such as graduations, concerts and lectures. Also included will be racquetball courts and weight, dance and exercise rooms.
The Los Angeles firm of Parkin Architects, a firm specializing in the design of athletic facilities, was chosen as the architect.
On another UC San Diego project, the regents selected architectural firms in San Diego and New York to design a proposed $14.9-million social sciences building.
The San Diego firm of Brown Gimber Rodriguez Park received the architectural contract, with Gwathmey Siegel & Associates of New York being the primary design subconsultant.
If state funding for the project is secured, construction is scheduled to begin in late 1993.
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