Construction of a nine-storey sports complex in Zone A of the Macau New Urban Zone should start in the first quarter of next year, the Public Works Bureau (known by its Portuguese initials DSOP) announced.
Currently dubbed the A9 sports complex, the facility will reportedly house four sports pavilions, a 25-metre swimming pool, six badminton courts, two basketball courts and an area for table tennis. It will also have two underground levels dedicated to car parks. The complex’s total floor area will be about 12,500 square metres, DSOP said.
Twenty-one companies submitted bids for the project’s tender, which was launched in June. According to DSOP, bids ranged from 241 million patacas to 270 million patacas. Each company proposed a construction period of around 880 working days (equating to just under three and a half years).
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While most of Zone A, which runs from Avenida da Ponte de Amizade northern tip to the Outer Harbour Ferry Terminal, has been earmarked for public housing, a 2,000 square metre plot was reserved for the sports complex.
Zone A’s first finished building was a nine-story municipal complex that will contain a wet market completed in October last year. A senior care home, schools, a health centre and other community facilities will eventually be built in the area.
A recent tender for the senior care home facility has also attracted 21 bids, DSOP noted. That project was due to get off the ground in the first quarter of this year.
