Milan-Cortina, there is an agreement: the 2026 Olympics inaugurated at San Siro

The 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics will have their inauguration where the dossier expected it to be, that is, inside the Meazza stadium in Milan. This “regardless of the timing of construction of the new stadium” which will be built in the same area. This was established by the mayor of Milan Giuseppe Sala who this morning, at Palazzo Marino, met the representatives of Inter and Milan to decide the fate of the new stadium. And the situation seems to have finally unlocked, after two years of back and forth and vitriolic declarations. The Municipality has made three requests, which the two clubs have accepted and therefore now the Board will have to “resolve the public interest quickly”. The first of the three fundamental conditions is that “the new stadium will have to substantially respect the lines and volumes contained in the feasibility study that has already been presented to the Administration”: in essence, therefore, given that the PGT (government plan for the territory of the room) significantly reduced volumes, the teams agreed to this reduction as regards the volumes of hotels, offices and shopping centers which, from the projects presented – that of Populos, the so-called “Cathedral”, and that of Manica-Sportium , the “Two Rings” – instead envisaged large buildings, that is, large land consumption according to what many have denounced in recent years.
The second prerequisite set by the mayor is the “reconversion of the area of ​​the current San Siro in order to develop the project of the sports and entertainment district, in a green context (also in this case as per the dossier already presented)”. And this is precisely where the condition placed on the inauguration of the Olympic Games at Mezza comes in, which will remain standing, therefore. The third, finally, provides “that the concessions of volumetric rights for urban development ancillary to the stadium do not derogate from what is permitted by the current PGT”.
The president of Milan, Paolo Scaroni, and the CEO of Inter, Alessandro Antonello, also attended the summit at Palazzo Marino. For the latter, “there is a roadmap that we will follow and we hope that it is preparatory to speeding up the approval process,” he said, speaking of the path to defining the project for the new stadium. But he replied in the negative to those who asked him if it will be possible to build the new stadium for the 2026 Winter Olympics in time: «No, I think this is very difficult now. After two years of a pandemic, times have slipped. He will certainly not be there for the Olympics and there will be San Siro ».