The Minister of Sports, Francisco Camacho, said on Friday that he was feeling with the progress of the remodeling of the Quisqueya Juan Marichal Stadium, home of the 2022 Caribbean Series, in which champion teams from six area leagues will participate.
Camacho led a tour of the emblematic facility accompanied by the person in charge of the remodeling, Garibaldi Bautista. The lighting, the backbone of the remodeling, is on its way to a complete solution for next January 20.
“We are on time, I am satisfied with the work and in the Dominican Republic we will have a special Caribbean Series,” Camacho said during the inspection.
The Quisqueya is being remodeled in several points of its structure, which includes some areas of its external area, but basically the lighting system, with which it is expected to obtain the Major League Baseball certification, a guarantee offered by the company that supplies the towers with led lights.
“I’m leaving very happy,” Camacho said. “I have seen everything we got involved in to renovate the Quisqueya Stadium and I realize that we are on time, that we are going to deliver the works as we have discussed to be enjoyed in the Caribbean Series,” he added.
The Dominican Republic will host the event, to be held from January 28 to February 3. The first game of the Dominican team will be against Mexico.
Camacho said that he observed some details in which it was agreed with Bautista to be corrected, “but in all the works of the world there are always details, that can be sure that we will correct them and that we will enjoy a great Caribbean Series in the Republic Dominican ”.
The fundamental point of the work, the lights, does not concern the Minister of Sports and Recreation either.
“My concern was the towers and we have just seen that there are towers of those that are already armed and they tell me that on Tuesday (next) we will begin to climb the towers,” said the official.
For the remodeling of the work, Camacho said, “a first batch of 87 million pesos and then another of 42 million pesos were invested, which includes the towers and all the work that is being done here. There are no secrets, why we have to have secrets, “he said.
What Bautista Said
The engineering professional established that the main aspect is to comply with the remodeling, in the critical path of the installation of the towers, of the lighting system.
“We are doing well, yesterday (Thursday) we managed to empty the towers’ footings, which was an important point in order to achieve the planning that we have carried out so far,” he explains so that “next Tuesday (11 of January) we are with the heavy equipment, the cranes, lifting the four towers in this process and we understand that in the next week we will begin testing stages “.
“By next Tuesday it is expected to have two towers lit behind the Quisqueya home plate” and in the course of next week, God willing, we will be able to install and turn on the lights behind the gardens, “explained Bautista.
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