AC Milan have officially responded to Mayor Giuseppe Sala’s comments regarding his perception that both Milanese clubs cannot build new stadiums.
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Sala spoke at an event to mark Republic Day and he was asked about the idea that Milan and Inter will both construct new homes outside the city limits, in San Donato and Rozzano more specifically.
He fired a warning of sorts to the clubs, because he revealed his belief that it is not feasible for the Rossoneri and the Nerazzurri to each construct new stadiums ‘so close together’.
As MilanNews write, the Milanese edition of the Corriere della Sera is headlined this morning: ‘Stadium in San Donato: Milan attack Sala’ and it contains the response from the club regarding Sala’s comments.
“Regarding what has been reported by the media on the new stadium project in San Donato, AC Milan underlines that the proposal presented insists on a private and buildable area, on which there was already an approved Integrated Intervention Plan, which allows the construction of 108,000m² of GFA.
“As reiterated several times, the area involved in the construction of the Stadium does not fall within the Southern Milan Agricultural Park, it is not a green space, but is currently abandoned and degraded.
“Following the planning of the Municipality of San Donato, which identified it as an Area of Intervention for urban regeneration, Sport Life City (a company controlled by AC Milan, owner of the land) is operating with the State Police and the Municipality of San Donato to reclaim the entire area and make it safe, freeing it from crime and bad habits.
“The sector benefits from infrastructures such as the San Donato station, reachable by the railway link, and the MM3 metro stop, which is only 1.2km away. The nearby Rogoredo station is conveniently connected with high-speed railway lines from Naples, Rome, Florence, Bologna, Turin and Venice.
“The site can also be reached via the A1 motorway, for which new exits and entrances are expected, and from the pre-existing Metanopoli ring road, which already has a junction.
“Furthermore, several studies on traffic flows, also carried out recently, have highlighted the absence of critical issues in accessing the new stadium.
“The project finds no incompatibility with the possible construction of a new Inter stadium in Rozzano. The distance between the two structures would in fact be 13km as the crow flies (18km by car), while for example in the city of London there are eight stadiums built at even much shorter distances.”
In essence, the club have outlined how there are no grounds to half Milan’s San Donato plan because of anything to do with Inter build in Rozzano. It seems Sala is desperate to get the clubs to consider his ‘save San Siro’ project in collaboration with the firm WeBuild.