Toronto is currently midway in an upgrade of Terminal One at the Person International Airport. These purchases will be accelerated if the city wins the Olympic bid. In March 2000, Toronto opens a competition to design the Olympic Athlete and Media Villages. These villages designed to house Olympic athletes and journalists during the games will subsequently be converted to low cost housing and lake-shore luxury condominiums. The village will be built on publicly owned land requiring a major reclamation program.
Opportunities exist for architects, urban planners, and land remediation experts.
If Toronto hosts the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, it will need to let contracts to upgrade its bus and subway system. As a fall back position, the TTC will advance the purchase of buses and delay the retirement of other buses to bring its current stock of buses to 1,500 for the games. This effort will avoid many of the transportation problems faced by the city of Atlanta in 1996. The transit system is also considering plans to upgrade its accessibility for the handicapped by increasing the number of elev ators in its system. To successfully sponsor the Games, Toronto will need to award contracts for telecommunication upgrades to provide adequate facilities for the thousands of journalists using and residing in the Media Village.