An agreement was signed to build a new district in Milan

A little closer is the Olympic arena of Santa Giulia and its new neighborhood. The urban planning agreement for the variation to the integrated intervention plan was signed on Thursday 16 June. The document – signed by Palazzo Marino, the Risanamento group and Esselunga – is preparatory to the start of the works which, as regards the Olympic arena, will begin by the end of the year and the other phases of the construction site will start once completed the first phase of the reclamation, scheduled for the second half of 2023. The plan will lead to the completion of the district on which buildings for 400 thousand square meters will be built, most of them for residential use, in addition to the 250 thousand already built in the station area by Rogoredo.

The signing of the document represents the start of the implementation phase of the variant project and begins the executive design, which will be followed by the construction of the urban and infrastructural works envisaged by the area development project and specifically those related to the Milan Olympics. Cortina 2026.

What will the new part of Milan be like

Once the works are completed, the Santa Giulia district – 1.2 million square meters – will be made up of buildings for over 658 thousand square meters (currently about a third of those completed). Mainly residential buildings (60%, according to the figures of Palazzo Marino). Not only that, there will be a large public park of over 360 thousand square meters and a new Esselunga.

Among the main objectives is that of “giving life to a neighborhood capable of bringing out a new social community, so as to represent a model of development that can be replicated not only in Milan, but also in other cities”, specify from the town hall.

The “new” district of Milan will feature gardens, squares and pedestrian walkways. In this context, the system of green areas will constitute the center of public life, the place of meeting and exchange. “The network of squares, together with the park, pedestrian paths and green areas, constitutes the primary infrastructure of the transformation area that guarantees the livability of the new district and, by connecting to the existing city, allows the diffusion of the desired quality in the context local “, reads a note from Piazza Scala.

The planivolumetric solution is consequently organized on a grid of streets and pedestrian paths, which defines the size of the building blocks that are never too large, and also for the three larger buildings (the arena, the Esselunga area and the commercial-tertiary triangle) important passages of public interest are foreseen to create a widespread pedestrian network.

The size of the building blocks and the construction on the edges with the presence of internal courtyards for private use allows an interchangeability and a wide flexibility between the typical functions of the city – residence, tertiary, commerce, hospitality, services to people, public functions and of public interest. This urban structure includes the network of services offered, those comparable to the category of public service and also the set of functions that enrich the social and economic variety of the city.

These also include the establishment of the new Music Campus of the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory, with the construction of a multifunctional structure dedicated to music, and the Children’s Museum dedicated to the exploration of the theme “My (intelligent) city of the future “.

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