After weeks without many updates, news is continuing to come out about AC Milan’s plan to build a new stadium somewhere in the city.
According to La Repubblica (via MilanNews), Milan seem to have found the area on which to build their new stadium on their own: the San Francesco area in San Donato Milanese. They have even taken the first formal step with a pre-agreement signed.
The Rossoneri owners have signed a preliminary deal regarding the transfer of urban planning permits with Sport Life City, the current owner of the area, which is certainly a concrete step towards building there.
However, the paper states that it will be 60,000-seat stadium, surrounded by various attractions, such as a new club museum and probably a shop. It will be 180 thousand square metres, as imposed by the Territorial Government Plan.
This means that there won’t be room to move the Milanello sports centre close to the stadium, something that was put forward with the La Maura hypothesis, for example.
As early as next week there could be other meetings between Milan and the Council of San Donato to take more steps forward, and Mayor Francesco Squeri’s words are certainly positive.
“The feeling, for now, is that Milan consider the San Francesco area very interesting. the moment, the procedure does not imply with certainty that the stadium will be built in San Donato. Milan has not yet decided,” he said.
“We are in a preliminary phase, the club are yet to present the project to us. We are moving forward with the bureaucracy to understand if it is feasible.
“Only with the project in hand we could then involve all the bodies in charge: from the Metropolitan City, to the State Railways, to the Region, to the Council of Milan.”
60000 capacity not enough. Minimum 70000 capacity.
Minimum 64k.
Come on, add 10k more…
I’ve been saying this since day 1. The issue is not the location. It’s the proposed designs for the new stadium. If you’re going to replace a stadium as iconic as San Siro, you better design something truly magnificent. Until a new design is presented, I don’t think anything will happen.
Pathetic talking…
80.000 minimum.
We are Milan. Not just financial game.
No. 65-75k is possible but not 80k. Too expensive to build and maintain.
No stadium in Italy is currently above 80k. San Siro capacity has been reduced due to vibration issue at 3rd tier curva forcing some sections to be closed, it is now below 75k. I won’t be surprised if by the time the new stadium is completed, San Siro capacity is already below 70k as the 3rd tier continue to deteriorate.