The health emergency led to delays in the construction site of three to four months: with bated breath the shops that have already canceled their rental contracts
BELLUNO. A team of workers becomes positive at Covid and the construction site stops. The work is reorganized, the company that should have entered service later is called, in an attempt not to lose precious days. We work in apnea, above the Caffi car park, where Filù srl, the company of Roberto Chemello, is about to complete the redevelopment of the former civil hospital.
The pandemic is making the operation more complex, so much so that Chemello has had to update the commitments it had made with the activities that will move to the new commercial center. “There has been a delay of three to four months compared to the original time schedule”, admits the owner of Filù srl.
“But in May we will make the first deliveries to the tenants.” That is the La Fenice pizzeria, the Metamorphosis beauty and hairdresser, the Sisley clothing store and the Peccolo shoe store. The latter has the windows covered with posters indicating a promotional sale to free the warehouse in view of the transfer from Piazza Mercato to the new center.
The owners of the activities are in a certain hurry: there are those who have the lease contract expiring at the end of April, who had planned to close in May to move. Time is running out but, Chemello assures us, the works are now in the home straight: «In May we will make the first deliveries, in order to give the tenants time to set up the premises», explains the entrepreneur.
«We had delays in the construction site due to the pandemic: last year we had to stand still for 55 days. Now we have to deal with the workers who test positive for Covid. You work with great discomfort. We try to respect the commitments made, but if a team of workers gets sick we can do nothing but wait. By now, however, there should be no more problems ».
These days the workers are finishing the screeds inside the new building. The plant engineering was 90 percent completed. “We are also finishing the external square, let’s say that we are finishing up now,” Chemello continues. The stone staircase that will allow access to the Stimm shop, inside the Bank of Italy, from the back, or from the new commercial center consisting of Palazzo Campedel (this is the name chosen for the new building that will house the four commercial activities and of services, apartments and offices).
Then, in the summer, the Giesse Management Claims offices will move to the first block you come across when you enter the Caffi car park. We are talking about August.
Once the construction site is completed, the pedestrian square is finished and the commercial activities open, an official inauguration will be organized. But only when the health emergency will allow the conclusion of a long journey, which lasted almost twenty years, to be worthily celebrated.
There are only two pieces left to fit together to complete the puzzle. The redevelopment of the former Edison gallery, one of the access points to the complex (the others are in via Caffi, via Loreto and from the gallery near the former Wind shop) and the demolition of the wall that will open an access even in the middle of via Psaro .
The former Edison gallery is private. “I’m working on it,” Chemello concludes, without losing his balance. «On the wall in via Psaro, however, the Municipality must intervene. I think that opening an access in that area would also give added value to via Psaro, but we are waiting ». –