The new national stadium that is set to be built to replace the current stadium as a gift from the Chinese government has already undergone inspection by Chinese designers and they have announced that the original plans will be altered.
The plans were originally sketched out to make the stadium hold 45,000 people however the capacity has now been down graded to 35,000. Despite the 10,000 drop in capacity, this is still 20,000 more people than what the stadium can currently hold at the moment.
This isn’t the only plan to change either as China plan to bring over their own workers to mainly build the stadium rather than use contract work here in Costa Rica. The Chinese construction workers will set up a camp near the stadium and will work on the stadium over 24 hours a day.
Even the finish date of the project has been put back to end in May 2010 rather than the original plans to finish 6 months earlier in November 2009.
As the Chinese are yet to start the project and it is their money that is being used to pay for the stadium, it appears that the Costa Rican government is going to have little say in the plans to build the stadium.
The new national stadium is already experiencing some major changes in its plans and with the Costa Rican government having little influence in the plans, it is possible that the Chinese may still change the plans even more, whether its going to be better or worse for the stadium.
