In the meeting that took place a few days ago, AC Milan and Inter communicated to the mayor of the city – Giuseppe Sala – that they were not interested in the renovation project of San Siro, but other doors opened.
According to La Repubblica (via MilanNews), the leaders of the two clubs expressed a willingness to explore the old hypothesis of a new stadium next to the current San Siro, similar to the plan that was presented five years ago.
The ‘new San Siro’ project, presented in 2019, envisaged the demolition of the current facility, but the constraint on the second tier due to its age had effectively blocked everything. Now, however, the idea of a new stadium near the current one is back in fashion because there is an important new development that has emerged in recent days on the issue of the constraint.
Emanuela Carpani , superintendent of Fine Arts in Milan, explains it: “When a property passes from public to private ownership, the institution of ‘de iure’ protection ceases, which establishes that public properties older than 70 years are automatically subject to protection regulations, until the verification of cultural interest is carried out. If a property becomes private, this protection does not come into force by law.”
So if Milan and Inter were to decide to buy San Siro, the restriction on the second tier would no longer apply , decisively changing the cards on the table and effectively reopening the doors to the old project of a new stadium in the San Siro area.
In the meantime, the Council are continuing to proceed with the steps needed to sell the stadium and the surrounding areas, as Mayor Sala also explained yesterday: ” We are trying to speed up with the Revenue Agency to have certain values, which would be the ones to put out to tender, both the San Siro structure and the surrounding areas.
“Is the double stadium hypothesis viable? Before saying that it is a solid hypothesis, I want to be sure, because I understand that there could be disorientation on the part of citizens due to the many hypotheses that we have put forward.
“At this moment we need to speed up. We are trying to do so, and we will have a meeting with the Revenue Agency in the next few days.”