The Athlete's village for the

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and 2015 Parapan American Games cost $735 million

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and had the capacity to hold up to 7,200 athletes and officials. After the games the village was converted to 746 market priced condos, 41 market-priced town homes, 250 affordable-rent apartments, 257 student dormitory units for

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, office and retail units, and a YMCA recreation centre. The Athlete's Village was located in the West Don Lands along Front Street between Bayview Avenue and Cherry Street in Toronto. The development was certified

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Gold. Five satellite villages (all hotels and university residences) were also used to house athletes that were competing in venues far from the main village.

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Six buildings compose the Athletes Village, five are residential mid-rise buildings and the sixth is a training facility. After the Pan Am/Para Pan Am Games, four residential towers became a

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housing development. The fifth became a dormitory for students of nearby

, and training facility became a

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, and serve as a men's hostel. The village was completed in February 2015, and cost $709 million

. As well, the village includes the Corktown Common park which was built a year before. Like the

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s provided for other games, the Athletes' Village provided in Toronto for the

was a new construction. However, learning a lesson from the Athletes' Village provided for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in

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, developers decided the units would not be fully completed before athletes moved in. Since the athletes were going to eat in central cafeterias the room that would eventually become the units' kitchens could serve as an additional bedroom. Hardwood, tile and carpet flooring are to be installed after the games are over. Painted concrete floors was seen as more appropriate for housing for athletes, who could mar the surface of more expensive flooring, with spiked shoes or other athletic gear. The village is built on the site of former railway and industrial lands, including the William Davies Company, at one time the world's largest pork processing facility. After the meat industry moved out in the 1980s, the area was taken over by government to build a public housing project. The "Ataratiri" project failed in the 1990s, leaving the site mostly vacant for over ten years before the

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agency was created to speed up the redevelopment of harbour lands in Toronto. The project was fast-tracked once Toronto was awarded the games, changing a twelve-year plan for redevelopment into a six-year plan.

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Satellite villages

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