Jose Joaquin Puello, president of the Dominican Olympic Committee and the 2003 Santo Domingo Pan American Organizing Committee said that winners of the construction tender for the new Pan Am Games venues will be announced in the first week of May. These new structures will go up in the Mirador del Este Park. He told Hoy newspaper’s sports editor Franklin Mirabal that a new volleyball pavilion would be built next to the one that already exists in the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center. A new Olympic pool would also go up beside the existing one in the Olympic park. He said talks are advancing for the construction of the gymnastics pavilion next to the Boxing Pavilion and the Quisqueya Ball Park. Dominican Baseball Commissioner Jose Daniel Calzada, who says that this would affect the Dominican Baseball League’s plans to expand the stadium into a first class facility in the future, opposes the use of the area adjacent to the Quisqueya Ball Park. Calzada proposed that the gymnastics pavilion go up next to the Francisco Moscoso Puello Hospital.
