Public tender for San Siro: the resolution that the majority does not want to discuss

Not even Monday 24 February was the right day to discuss, at Palazzo Marino, the council resolution on the public tender for the redevelopment of the San Siro stadium, keeping it in public hands. Enrico Fedrighini, majority councilor of the mixed group, attempted to recall its advance, but the majority itself rejected the request with 15 votes in favor and 18 against, and then failed to maintain a quorum on the continuation of the debate on the "housing plan".

The resolution had been discussed in commission in January, and had met with opposition from a large part of the Democratic Party. It would in fact, as admitted by the PD representative Bruno Ceccarelli, conflict with the implicit approval of the project by Milan and Inter to purchase the entire area, build a new facility and almost completely demolish the Meazza.

Fedrighini takes the blow, but he speaks of "terror of transparency" and relaunches the need for the call for tenders, "as is used in civilized countries, returning the redevelopment process of a strategic area, today delegated to financial funds, to the institutionally competent offices". The councilor of the mixed group points out that the councilor for urban regeneration Giancarlo Tancredi, speaking of Salva Milano, recently admitted that mistakes had been made in the past, with negative effects on the city.

Stop the financial funds

"Tancredi - Fedrighini emphasizes - also said something else: an excessive delegation of regeneration projects to private operators produces interventions 'aimed at profit' and not at improving Milan". The councilor of the mixed group wants to seize the opportunity: "Let's start with the Meazza project, where two speculative financial funds are privately developing, on a municipal area, an irreversible transformation project for real estate profit purposes". For now, nothing to be done, we will see in the coming weeks if the resolution will be discussed.