Baseball complex on Curacao a step closer

The local government of Curacao has signed an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) together with International Baseball Partners LLC. This MoU is nothing more than a document in which both parties delcare their intent of building a baseball facility at the island of Curacao.

Due to this MoU, both parties have put together an official business plan to realize the contstruction of Project 421. According to IBP’s CEO Michael Powers they continue to move closer to realizing Project 421 and the eventual construction of major league quality facilities on the island of Curacao.

The MuO was officially announced in a governmental press conference headed by the island’s Prime Minister, the Minister of Economics and IBP’s CEO (see photo on top of the article).

IBP’s CEO Michael Powers talks about major league quality facilities. No word has been said on the Curacao Summer League that is scheduled to start in 2016. Nowhere in the regular press it is mentioned. I still keep saying that this facility will be built to serve as a home for the new Summer League, to take over the role of the Venezuelan Summer League.

The next step will be a feasibility study and as soon as that has been finished, both parties will discuss the outcome. According to IBP, the time span needed to build the facility will be six months.

Artist impression of the future baseball complex on the island of Curacao