IVREA. The state of decay is reported by the readers. The area is between via Jervis and via Di Vittorio. The staircase next to the former Olivetti Social Services building leads to the parking lot in Via di Vittorio is full of weeds and the effect with the Maam billboards does not represent a nice business card for Ivrea, an industrial city of the twentieth century. The Via di Vittorio car park, which has always been a private area first for public use, then managed by Ivrea parking until the end of 2019 with the termination of the contract as it is little used by users. In the meantime, moreover, the car park had been purchased by Genco, a company that had presented a project to the Municipality for the construction of a Coop-branded hyperstore that should have affected the entire area, including Casa Molinario.
The project, which has been in place since 2015, had been much discussed and was also the subject of proceedings before the administrative courts. The 282-space car park, after the termination of the contract with Ivrea car parks, was then used by Wind workers. With the pandemic, the area has emptied; smart working workers have no longer used the car park and the area is now completely abandoned.
Furthermore, there are no count of vandalism and theft of copper and everything that was possible to raid at Casa Molinario, until May 2016, home of the ASL / To4 collection center, of the single booking center and of the psychology service. Today the building is smashed, dirty and abandoned.
From via Di Vittorio, therefore, considering the Olivetti nursery school closed and subject to redevelopment, to arrive in via Jervis and find yourself in the heart of Ivrea, an industrial city of the twentieth century, walk through the abandoned car park and reach the staircase . “As for the historic staircase that branches off from the even more historic building that housed the Social Services Center in Olivetti’s heyday, now home to the Adriano Olivetti Leadership Institute, as the plaque next to the entrance, in front of which a banner celebrates Ivrea Industrial City of the twentieth century, complete with Welcome – a reader points out – just look at its conditions. And just by observing the conditions of the staircase, which is only a few meters away, the “Welcome” appears at least out of tune ».