The flying saucer-shaped Tien Son Sports Palace has been cleared of trash, weeds removed, paving stones replaced, and some dirty walls repainted.
Over the past two days, the Da Nang Department of Culture and Sports has mobilized staff to clean up and beautify the landscape around the Tien Son Sports Palace on Phan Dang Luu Street, Hai Chau District, after VnExpress reported on the shabby, unsightly condition there.
Trash under the inlets and vents was collected. Weeds were removed from the second floor hallway and lobby. Some graffiti was repainted. Many broken or missing granite drain covers were replaced.
The Da Nang Department of Culture and Sports also ordered the installation of plastic trash baskets and trimming of the grass in the campus. However, many surrounding walls still have ugly drawings. The rotten wooden benches are awaiting treatment.
Explaining the reason for the shabby sports palace, Mr. Nguyen Trong Thao, Deputy Director of the Department of Culture and Sports of Da Nang, said that the outside of the palace is an open space, with internal traffic roads, parking lots, gardens, trees, lawns... Because there are no fences or gates, this place has become a destination for people to exercise and have fun.
Some people lack awareness of protecting property and maintaining environmental hygiene. The Sports Center (the management unit of the palace) has arranged many trash bins around; security guards have promoted and reminded, but there are still cases of littering in the wrong places and arbitrarily stuffing trash into drainage ditches.
In addition, some teenagers choose quiet times to draw pictures, smear glass doors, walls, and decorative aluminum panels at the entrance of the stands; gather to play skateboarding and arbitrarily remove iron frames and granite panels covering the drains to set up barriers to jump over. Some also skateboard on granite seats, slide on aluminum panels, and crash into glass doors, causing damage.
Some employees of the City Parks and Trees Company, after taking care of trees and grass in the garden, arbitrarily left equipment, tools, and watering hoses in the basement ventilation area.
Regarding subjective reasons, Mr. Thao said that the Department is organizing two national tournaments for volleyball and chess, so many people came that many cars were not allowed to enter the parking lot, and parked on the corridors of the sports palace. "Human resources were focused on the tournament, so there were shortcomings in the process of checking and fixing the problems in the outside space," Mr. Thao said.
In the coming time, the Sports Center will increase inspections to promptly handle damage; propagate and remind people, students, and pupils to maintain public hygiene and be aware of protecting property; and place more signs and instructions to create awareness for people to come to play and have fun.
The center also increased the number of cleaning staff (currently two) to collect waste quickly; proposed to remove all rotten wooden chairs; installed more cameras in the garden, walkways, lobby on the first and second floors to manage, monitor and handle restrictions.
Tien Son Sports Palace was built on a land area of 94,000 m2, in which the stadium block consists of one basement and three upper floors, with an area of over 10,400 m2, designed to simulate the shape of a flying saucer. This is a typical project of Da Nang City, started in July 2009, with a cost of 42 million USD (about 750 billion VND according to the exchange rate at the same time). In December 2010, the project came into operation.
On average, each year, the Sports Palace organizes 12-14 city-level sports tournaments; 8-10 national, regional and international sports tournaments; 5-7 sports tournaments and sports festivals of central and local departments and branches; 35-40 sports tournaments, events and activities of various sizes.
This place was the venue for the 2010 National Sports Festival, the Asia Pacific Robocin competition, the final round of the Miss Vietnam contest, the Prime Minister's meeting and dialogue with 4,000 workers in the Central region; the APEC Coe Summit gala dinner within the framework of the APEC Summit in 2007...
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