Italian giants exploring plan B to avoid stadium demolishment

Two leading European clubs – Milan and Inter, are reportedly exploring an alternative new stadium project that’ll see them avoid demolishing the existing Stadio Giuseppe Meazza.

Corriere Milano reported how the two Milanese clubs have been tied up in the constraints of Italian bureaucracy in recent months, unable to make any real progress in their quest for a new stadium due to the public debate over the potential demolishment of the iconic stadium in the San Siro area of Milan.

The two former European club champions, in agreement with the Municipality of Milan, are now working on a parallel project that would see the new stadium built in the area of the former Snai horse-training tracks.

The 75-hectare land is owned by Federico Consolandi’s Fcma group, who have already expressed interest in selling the space for redevelopment.

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Several meetings have occurred between the two Milanese teams, the municipality, mayor Beppe Sala and the Fcma group in recent weeks.

Should the project go ahead, it would see the new stadium built just under 1.5 km away from the existing Stadio Giuseppe Meazza.

However, what is more important, it would be built on private land, avoiding the need for the debate of building on public land.

The Stadio Giuseppe Meazza would therefore remain standing, still owned by the municipality. The risk for the City of Milan is that, without the clubs, the stadium would essentially become a cathedral in a desert, only entailing management costs for the municipality.