Full name | Ciudad Deportiva Millito Navarro |
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Location | Puerto Rico |
Owner | Government of the Autonomous Municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico |
Operator | Ponce, Puerto Rico, Municipal Government |
Field size | 1,000,000 square feet; 25 cuerdas |
Construction | |
Broke ground | 2012 |
Built | Construction started 10 May 2012. |
Opened | Under construction |
Construction cost | $32.3 Million USD |
Project manager | Gutberto Vega (Resident Engineer) |
General contractor | GVG Builders |
Main contractors | Lorraine Construction |
The Ciudad Deportiva Millito Navarro (Millito Navarro Sports City) is a multi-sport complex currently under construction in Ponce, Puerto Rico. The complex is to consist of a soccer stadium, a baseball field, three tennis courts, a track for track and field, a covered basketball court, and a covered gymnasium. It is also planned to have schooling, physical training, and medical facilities on the premises. Its projected cost is 32.3 million USD. The complex is named after Ponce's Millito Navarro, the first Puerto Rican to play baseball in the Negro Leagues and who, living until age 105, was also the oldest living professional baseball player to have played in the Negro Leagues.
Ciudad Deportiva is being built in an area of over 1 million square feet of land, between Urbanizacion Los Caobos and Caminos del Sur. It is to consist of a soccer stadium, a baseball field, three tennis courts, a track for track and field sports, a covered gymnasium, and covered handball courts. In addition it is planned to have a sports academy, the first one of its kind in Puerto Rico. Other facilities are to include a central plaza, a medical sports clinic, and facilities for martial arts. Ciudad Deportiva will be located in Ponce's Barrio Bucana, next to Polideportivo Frankie Colón at Urbanizacion Los Caobos.