As someone who has lived in hotels, sometimes for years at a time, and has written innumerable articles on hotels of all varieties, many for The GATE, be they old and historic, small boutique hotels or brand new hotels–but one kind of temporary visitors residence I have never had the occasion to visit was an athletes’ village like those constructed for Olympic Games or Pan Am Games–until now. As the hosts of the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Games, organizers were charged with the daunting task of building an athletes village that would be bold, state of the art modern, centrally located and able to comfortably house 7100 athletes and team officials during the Pan Am Games and 3200 hundred athletes and teams officials for the Parapan Games.