The University of Minnesota on Thursday unveiled a plan to build a $13 million outdoor track and field facility to replace the one displaced by the athletics department’s Athletes Village project, which triggered a federal Title IX investigation in January 2015.

The project, which includes relocation of schoolwide recreation facilities on the site, was presented to a facilities subcommittee of the university’s Board or Regents, which will address the proposal at its October meeting.

“It’s important for us to have an NCAA-level track facility on campus,” athletics director Mark Coyle told members of the Facilities, Planning & Operations Committee.

The facility has officially been added to the school’s Athletes Village project, which was last estimated to cost $166 million and will include new football and men’s and women’s basketball facilities, as well as leadership and learning centers. However, the old track was torn up to make way for a new football indoor facility and office space without a plan to replace it. Track and field athletes train at Hamline University in St. Paul.

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UMN Athletes Village wins final OK from regents That decision, made under former athletics director Norwood Teague, prompted a gender-equity complaint on behalf of the Gophers women’s track and field team, which in turn triggered a monthslong, and still ongoing, federal Title IX investigation by the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights.

The track and field facility will include a nine-lane track, as well as competition space for all field events, including steeplechase. The plan also calls for an additional 5,600 square feet of space for restrooms, a press box, concessions and stands that can accommodate 4,000. It will be built on land currently housing a schoolwide recreation softball field and indoor “bubble” facility.

The track will cost an estimated $13 million, with relocation and reconstruction of the recreation facilities costing an estimated $6 million.

Coyle said it was important to build the track as part of the Athletes Village so that team members can more easily take advantage of amenities such as the learning center and a 24-hour training table.

“Our goal here is to maximize shared amenities,” he said.

The new recreation space will be part of a 2.6-acre parcel near TCF Bank Stadium to be purchased for $1.3 million. Cost to demolish current buildings on the site, including two grain elevators, is estimated at $2.5 million.

According to a presentation made Thursday, the entire project’s $22.8 million cost will be paid for by the school’s debt service. Coyle said that as it applies to the track, “the debt is a fallback plan,” and that the department still plans to raise more private money to pay for the Athletes Village.

The athletics department already is paying off about $180 million debt, most of it from the construction of TCF Bank Stadium, and has been given the go-ahead to borrow as much as $89 million to complete the Athletes Village project.

Completion of the recreation facilities is planned for November 2017. The track’s opening is set for August 2018.