The Philippine Sports Commission looks forward to relocating its offices and activities to the Philsports Complex in Pasig.
This will take place this year, once the government sports agency finalizes its budget and continues doing repairs and makeovers on the facilities to be used by national athletes, their coaches and the national sports associations for their grassroots’ programs.
Chairman Richard Bachmann said the main office of the PSC at the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex in Vito Cruz, Manila will be among the facilities undergoing a facelift this year.
Bachmann said the main building has gotten old and has developed cracks from recent earthquakes, with its roofing and elevator now leaking from rainwater.
“We plan to go to Philsports muna, once we start the retrofitting of the PSC building,” said Bachmann.
The agency is prioritizing work to improve the condition of the baseball field at the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex as facilities around the field are steadily getting upgrades in order to meet international standards.
This is the second phase of a project that began in September last year.
Back then, the agency started work on putting up a new seven-story dormitory for boxing and pencak silat.
Crafting a maintenance program for facilities that are under the care of the PSC is also in the planning stages.
The agency’s infrastructure plans will become clearer once its budget for this year is finalized.
“We need a maintenance program to maintain all these facilities. If we need a foreign corporation to teach us (how to do this), so be it,” said Bachmann, hinting on a getting foreign consultants to assist the agency in getting the job done.
The agency is also now involved in a partnership with the Department of Public Works and Highways in its bid to strengthen multiple infrastructures that will provide the best quality for the welfare of national athletes.
