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As part of the Los Angeles 2024 bid, they are supposedly taking a different approach, in that they plan to utilize the existing student housing at UCLA for thei

• sjm-lbm 10y ago
  Atlanta used Georgia Tech's campus to house athletes in 1996 (and renovated/added additional dorms as well, at least as I understand it). Honestly, as bad as Atlanta's Olympics look at the time (with commercialism and the bombing, for example), I really think they deserve a lot of credit for using it as an excuse to provide the city with renovations people could use. Hopefully LA can do the same.
  • ja27 10y ago
    They gutted a pretty rough area south of campus and built a lot of new housing for the athlete village. For a while, both Georgia Tech and Georgia State used those buildings as dorms but Georgia State built their own closer to campus and now it's all Georgia Tech property. A lot of the Tech fraternity houses were rented out to media companies and got renovated. Tech did get a lot of use out of the aquatic center and it gets used for many NCAA events. They did finally defuel the Neely nuclear research reactor on campus before the games. I'd wondered how they were going to house athletes next to an experimental reactor. Nothing can excuse that mascot though.
• tzs 10y ago
  That's not a different approach for Los Angeles. That's the approach they used in the Los Angeles 1984 Olympics, except they used USC that time. They also utilized existing venues for nearly everything, only having to actually build two new venues (a swim center and a velodrome).