The General Director of the Panamanian Institute of Sports, Héctor Brands, together with his work team, toured in the company of journalists from different media, the land where the future Mariano Rivera Stadium and the National Baseball High Performance Center will be located in the district of La Chorrera, province of Panama Oeste.
There will be 11 hectares, 7283.24 square meters where both projects will be built in order to promote development and promote baseball among young talents in Panama and Latin America.
The Mariano Rivera Baseball Stadium will have Major League Baseball specifications with a capacity for 10,000 people, an elevator, ramps, public restrooms, dressing rooms, kiosks, restaurants with bars, VIP boxes and terraces, transmission booths. Exhibition area in honor of the hall of fame member Mariano Rivera, clubhouse, batting cages, meeting room, audiovisual room, warehouses, modern screen system and LED type lights, advertising headbands, among other facilities.
The modern stadium will have an original contract cost of B/30,258,745.78 million.
The National Baseball High Performance Center will have a housing building, classrooms, dining room, gym, audiovisual and administration area.
In the work area, a field for major category baseball, one for Little Leagues and a field only for the infield will be built, it will also have a batting cage, bullpen, agility area and a two-level observation structure.
The investment of this work by the company RigaService SA is B/ 8,891,276.22 million.
In this administration, Law 219 was sanctioned, which creates a development plan for minor baseball categories, allows the establishment of professional baseball academies in Panama, and grants tax incentives to national and international companies and organizations that invest in this sport. This project together with all the adaptations of the different baseball stadiums in the country will generate the inclusion of many more Panamanians in all the elite baseball leagues worldwide.
