Today, the UCLA Athletic Department introduced the Mo Ostin Basketball Center. With the original announcement being made back in May of 2014, the new basketball-only building will finally be breaking ground at the end of the 2015 . UCLA released a statement on the facility along with illustrations of what the facility would look like.
Introducing the Mo Ostin Basketball Center, UCLA's new on-campus basketball training center http://t.co/lYdz6hYfzk pic.twitter.com/5KsRJgiAia
— UCLA Athletics (@UCLAAthletics) March 10, 2015
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The Mo Ostin Center will be a two-story complex that will have separate enclosed courts for both men’s and women’s basketball teams, locker rooms, training areas, offices, meeting rooms and much more. The facility will be built at the south west part of Charles E. Young Drive, (near Strathmore), on the south side of the Los Angeles Tennis Center. The new basketball center will replace a few tennis courts that currently occupy that space.
The facility will be named after UCLA alumnus Morris “Mo” Ostin, a legendary music executive with Warner Bros. Records who pledged $10 million to the project.
To date UCLA has privately raised $15 million for the basketball center, according to uclabruins.com. It is estimated that it will cost $30-$40 million to complete.