\u0022Once we start on this next phase which we now have funding for, we’ll be able to zero in on a new location.\u0022
This week’s provincial budget includes $4 million in capital funds to help realize its long-time goal of a new campus in the city. President and CEO Dr. Larry Rosia said the institution’s programming has long outgrown its historic site on Idylwyld Drive, a former vocational school built in the 1940s.
Its operations — including courses on everything from applied agriculture to business to radiography — now sprawl across 11 separate locations in Saskatoon. “We are working towards bringing all of those locations into one site, and create a new campus, and that new campus will be able to accommodate all of our programming,” Rosia said. The $4 million builds on a $1 million investment in the last budget that Rosia said will go toward the “planning and design” phase of a new Saskatoon campus whose site has yet to be determined. Rosia hinted he would like it to be part of a broader “innovation corridor” by placing it near other academic powerhouses in the city like the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan or nearby Innovation Place. He said such a project would help all institutions attract students, instructors and investment to the city. “Once we start on this next phase which we now have funding for, we’ll be able to zero in on a new location,” he said. Saskatchewan Polytechnic’s capital and operation plans first mentioned their flagship Saskatoon site being “overcommitted” in 2008. The campus renewal project, as it is called, was first mentioned in 2014 when the organization earmarked $500,000 for “functional development and early design” of a new campus. Sask. Polytech received a total provincial investment of more than $177.5 million for the coming fiscal year, about $1.8 million more than last year.
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