Cost Sports Center

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Not to be confused with Charles L. Cost Field.
Entrance to the Charles L. Cost Sport Center at the University of Pittsburgh
Indoor football field inside the Cost Center

The Charles L. Cost Sports Center is a multi-purpose indoor sports complex at the University of Pittsburgh and located at its upper campus area above and behind the Petersen Events Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Cost Sports Center sits on top of the seven-story University's Tower View Parking garage directly above Pitt's Trees Field, the university's former baseball and softball facilities as well as the school's intramural fields. The fields, planned to be converted into a new track and field complex, can be reached via elevator from within the Cost Sports Center.

Designed by architectural firm Celli, Flynn, and Associates, ground was broken on February 9, 1989[1] and the Cost Sports Center opened in 1990 at a cost of $3.5 million ($8.6 million today). The facility was named after three-sport letterman and former Pitt football running back Charles L. "Corky" Cost who donated an excess of $1 million ($2.6 million today) for its construction.[2]

  1. ^ 1989 Pitt Football Media Guide, 1989, pg 162
  2. ^ 1991-92 Pitt Basketball Media Guide, pg 106