DavNor sets up park and night market for Palaro

A Capitol Park and a Night Market will rise up complete and functional in Davao del Norte Capitol area before the weeklong Palarong Pambansa 2015 begins on May 3, bared Governor Rodolfo del Rosario in an interview.
He also expressed confidence he can well beat to complete also the additional sports facilities inside the 11-hectare provincial sports complex before the Palaro that the province will host for the first time.
The additional facilities currently under construction inside the sprawling sports complex are two more tennis courts, another football field, and the five-bay extension of the grandstand for the swimming pool.
He said “there is still enough time” to complete these including the Capitol Park and the embellishments for the Night Market at Boiser Avenue, the road leading to the direction straight to the Capitol’s old administration building before the four-lane Capitol Road.
The Capitol Park is presently under construction and the governor said that once finished it would be well lighted, landscaped with palm trees and would have a dancing water fountain, lawns, greens and other features of a grand park “for people to go around and enjoy the fresh area of the Capitol.”
It would be an open park lighted at night that would proximately cater to the people living in the western section of the city such as those from Barangays Mankilam, San Miguel, Pagsabangan and neighboring areas, the governor said.
The central portion of the perimeter fence of the Capitol’s compound and the old main gate was demolished to give way for entrance of the park, and a new fence is being set up closer to the main Capitol building to still enclose the Capitol compound.
Due to the park’s construction the gates in north and southeast of the Capitol compound have been opened.
“During the Palaro the Boiser Avenue would be closed to give way for the night, but hopefully the Capitol night market would become permanent and a nightly affair beyond the Palaro as we are concreting the road behind (and the south of) the perimeter fence of the sports complex,” he added. – Cha Monforte, Correspondent