16Nov 24
The new Meazza? Beyond the stadium there is more…
Ok, the price is right: 73 million for the Meazza stadium and 124 for the areas around which it will be possible to build for 98 thousand square meters which, probably, will be destined for residential and commercial spaces on the model of the City Life which arose at the Fair, canceling the history of the “Campionaria”. The owner funds of Milan and Inter would therefore be willing to build a new stadium for the clubs but evidently the rest is also tempting, which is not a negligible detail. This is the picture of the “business” that revolves around the new stadium in Milan. An operation which in recent days was given a price by the Revenue Agency from which Palazzo Marino had requested a dossier outlining the value of the transfer of the plant and the surrounding areas. It is therefore not just a stadium, but an investment that could generate greater revenues and which has now become an infinite and tangled story. It was September 26, 2109 when, in the great hall of the Bovisa Polytechnic, Milan and Inter with the projects of the two studios Populous And Manica-Sportiumasked to choose whether a new facility built on two Rings or a Cathedral should be built in place of the Meazza. Five years ago, which was actually six because the new stadium had been widely talked about for a year already. Dthat’s when people talk about nothing else in Milan. Feasibility plans, projects, demolitions, renovations, new areas, forward escapes towards Rozzano and San Donato, reverse steps, second thoughts, declarations of interests. And while there is much discussion about stadiums, “minor” sport is floundering with the cry of pain of many sports clubs forced to bend over backwards to find facilities and spaces for their young people to train. The situation of the swimming pools in Milan is critical, starting with Saini, one of the centers most frequented by athletes, Paralympic athletes and swimmers, closed until next summer for renovation. The same goes, even worse, for Lido, Scarioni and Argelati, which are also closed due to management changes and renovations that are more or less ongoing and more or less indefinite. Not only that. Another “school case” of how the sport practiced is not at the top of the thoughts of those who should instead guarantee it is the Agora, the ice palace which, with the Winter Olympics just around the corner, should be the center of attention in the country of common sense has instead been out of use since 2023. Not only that. A month ago it was damaged by a fire and last week occupied by a social center that is fighting against the Olympics in Milan and which made it a bivouac for a few days. But little or no talk about it at all. Because the city’s new stadium has been at the center of the debate for five years. And the surrounding areas which are less talked about…