Guyana Football Federation (GFF) president, Wayne Forde, on Tuesday gave local contracting firm, McGregor’s Real Estate Development Inc., a positive review of the land clearing and filling work done at the D’urban Park Football Complex presently under construction.

Forde visited the site to assess progress of Phase One of the works, which covers the clearance, levelling and sand filling of half of the 7.3 acres of land leased to the Federation for 50 years to build a modern football stadium and Technical Centre in the heart of Guyana’s capital city, Georgetown.

“We are very pleased with this phase of the work,” Forde told the media during his site visit. The local contractor won the $23.6M bid to ready the land acquired in 2018 for Phase Two, which covers major construction works over the next few years.
The land on which the multi-million dollar world class D’Urban Park Football Complex is being built was low and prone to flooding. The second half of the land will be levelled and filled over the next few months.

Phase One, which commenced in April, has experienced minor delays due to inclement weather and sand unavailability.
However, Forde explained that the site is now ready to be used by young footballers in the surrounding neighborhood with the first grassroots activity set to kick off this summer in partnership with the Georgetown Football Association (GFA).

The D’urban Park Football Complex, which is being funded by the One Concacaf Fund, is the centerpiece of President Forde’s infrastructural development vision for Guyana.
The entire project is expected to be completed in four years.