A fresh protest has been launched against AC Milan’s potential new stadium in the San Donato area of the city, with the potential 70,000-capacity being one of the talking points.
As has been reported by Calcio e Finanza, the thirteen citizens group of San Donato Milanese and Chiaravalle who are supported by the No Stadium in San Donato Milanese Committee have used a pool of lawyers to launch a fresh attack on the new stadium.
They filed an official request on March 22 at the Milan headquarters of the Regional Administrative Court to request the annulment of the acts adopted by the local administration in favour of the stadium being built. It is not the only stadium that Gerry Cardinale wants to build in Italy.
There is a 23-page document which requests that two elements of the original proposal be scrapped:
- The resolution of the Municipal Council of San Donato Milanese no. 15, published on 25 January 2024, concerning the “initial proposal of urban planning variant“ with the annexed favourable assessment of the feasibility for the construction of the stadium
- The Implementation Plan (Integrated Intervention Programme) approved by the Municipal Administration, aimed at allowing the construction of the stadium, which in the club’s intentions should have 70 thousand seats.
A new municipal council meeting has been called for April 11 and the stadium will be one of the main talking points.
Got to love Italian politics.
But it’s not politics, is it? It’s actually people who don’t want this stadium. And you find them everywhere. San Siro, San Donato, in Rome where Pallotta had to give up.
It is even harder when some of the residents might be inter fans.
13 years old? Wait until you’re a grown up person and try to buy an apartment in Milan where the housing market is insane, then suddenly a stadium of 70k with theme park and Hooters open close to your neighborhood.
In general circuimstances i wouldnt disagree with that point of yours but looking at the area where they plan to build it its inbetween highways and a lot of industry in an area that pretty much looks derelict. There was also an article that pointed out that the area currently is used by many drug dealers so if anything this should help rejuvenate the area and maybe even increase the property valuations. It will also give the area better transportation options because if/wehn milan builds the new stadium the railways station will also have to be modernized and increased in size to my understanding.
I’ve seen many banners protesting against a stadium at Fiera when Barbara Berlusconi wanted to build the stadium next to Casa Milan, these protests are not uncommon. I checked on Google Maps and there is a village called Chiaravalle not far, and of course San Donato Milanese. I’m not sure people are ready to live close to a 70k capacity stadium whose purpose would be to host major events almost everyday. Regarding the drug population, it’s mostly media rhetoric, maybe even PR job from Redbird. It’s not Fresno, there is nobody there and anyway it would just move drug addicts somewhere else.
I’m a big fan of the idea to renovate San Siro, not only because it’s iconic but mostly for its location. Italian people don’t have the US mentality to drive around, they mostly come by public transportation (San Donato would be really far), or walking or on a Vespa haha
Im not from italy so i cant say if the storries about drug dealing in the area is correct but regardless of country its normal everywhere that some people will object projects like this, subways, highways etc, and that is also fine with me as its part of people rights to protest in a modern western society. When that is said i have a difficult time to see how this project will affect very many people so in the greater good this stadium project should go forward. In the end though as its privately aquirred land i doubt that any protests will make any difference.
For a long time i was also against us moving away from san siro for the same reasons as you but i really dont think that there is anything else we can do unless the milano municpality gift us san siro and then we renovate it otherwise we will miss out on a lot of cash. 10 Kilometres isnt that far away if you ask me but guess if people wants to walk they can do that then it should solve any milanese potential obesity issues 😛
Damn Jerry might not be able to relocate the club to San Donato. That, and taxpayers won’t fund it and they have a right to speech. Italy is really stuck in middle age. Maybe he can cry again in Forbes or Fortune. Life is so unfair.
Who ask taxpayer to fund it?
Who need tax payer to fund that stadium ? There is bank . Only 30 people protest not the whole san donato . Lets finish that in court and see who win in court ACM need this stadium to compete with rich club in europe , it is more better having stadium rather than have oil kingdom money for ACM .
Jerry is building stadiums in the US with public money, where it’s common practice anyway. Redbird was involved in the project for the new Yankee Stadium, which was financed at more than 50% by public funds. And then he complains in his many business interviews that Italy isn’t modern. Yeah, if we consider modernity as public money being a cash cow for billionaires.
Not sure the guys above caught that but yes stadia in the States are heavily publicly funded but that part never gets mentioned by media except maybe ppl like John Oliver. It’s incredible really . I’m not sure its the same in Italy(someone from there would have to speak about it)
Gerry needs to do it the Arab way and bribe the right people. That is something Italians politicians understand…
Italy understood politics more than any other country and that’s why Governance is not a thing they like….the romanticism of the middle ages and medieval period resonated with them… Governance is synonymous with progressive thoughts and Italy do not want any of that ….
Progressive thoughts such as Reagan, Thatcher or Trump? Thanks, I guess we’re good in middle age with public funded hospitals and universities.
Because apparantly it’s bette to have a vacated area full of drug activity than a cleaned up area with shopping and a modern stadium?
oh Italy… can never quite get out of your own way.
Everywhere in the western world in the big urban areas , people are more on this “progressive” leftist politics orientation with pathological delusional “green” religion of environment , climate change crap lie , neo-marxism hive mentality. They wanna live again like Neanderthal people. I don’t have a problem with that but don’t afect me , let me live in a real progressive world , with development of infrastructure, quality of life,cars, highways, big stadiums, cheap energy. If you wanna “save the planet” or whatever mental illness you have, just leaves us all alone and move in the woods and live like a cave man . Man… I can’t stand leftist lunacy anymore, and this “green” eco-terrorism…
“Change is the law of life”. As long as Italians are not ready to adapt to that, they will be stuck in the old way, and football will not be profitable. Every change has its own inconveniences, but, ultimately, it brings progress, and development.