A slap in the face for Naples the new tower of the Region: a double in the East area
To evaluate it, a masculine substance is enough: duplication. This is the imaginative new Headquarter of the Region chaired by Governor Vincenzo De Luca which will rise exactly 200 meters away as the crow flies from the Business Center, where the offices of the Authority are already distributed in 4 buildings, without considering the historical site. of via Santa Lucia. At the center of the project for the new headquarters of the Region is a tower that will be at least 82 meters high – Pirellone model of Milan – where all the offices and departments and much more will be moved and from where the governor intends to look out – also having to do the third term – not later than 2028, the final date of delivery of the works. From up there he will be able to dominate at least with a view of Naples, the cross and delight of his days.
Not the Neapolitans, however, who are already wondering about the end of the whole economy that revolves around the offices around the Centro Direzionale, which will make the buildings that will be empty, the towers where they live of families who will no longer even have a bar under the house, the whole service sector that resists in the face of a situation that sees the Headquarters already gasping. Because inside the citadel created by Kenzo Tange and finished by Renzo Piano, things are like this today, even though there are only half of public offices. The Region’s project is a slap in the face for the Neapolitans who instead want a sensible urban regeneration and not other concrete pours softened by the usual green park and with a clear and above all pragmatic vision of the future part of the institutions.
Here is the “Napoli Porta est” project that De Luca likes so much. His pressing on the mayor Gaetano Manfredi is suffocating – he is one of the institutional partners, the third is the FS in their various forms because they own most of the land – so that by the end of the month he gives the green light to the project in the services conference. Body within which the technical and financial feasibility of the project is assessed. In the conference – above all – the green light must be given to an urban variant for two ambitions, 12 and 23 of the Naples Prg. Hence the hesitations of the former rector who in the end leaked that his yes will come. Once this game is closed, it is possible to move on to the program agreement between the bodies concerned and therefore to the opening of construction sites. It is a piece of the city on which – however – Palazzo San Giacomo cannot leave a free hand to the wishes of the Region. But let’s proceed in order because there are things to tell.
De Luca’s idea is worth about a billion in investments, of which 374 million of infrastructure alone, and the Region dal Cipe has already placed 100 million on the table. All public money – it should be emphasized – to photocopy a citadel of services that is 200 meters away. The “implementing body” was identified in the EAV, the participation of the Region that manages the Cumana and the Circumvesuviana which are queens of the news for the disservice. A project that – it must be said – is beautiful and functional in the part that concerns the specificity of the FS. That is to say the rearrangement of the Circumvesuviana track bundle that will be buried, a link connecting the A3 to an underground car park or under the current one at the intersection between Piazza Garibaldi and Corso Lucci also intended for buses, the new Eav station and still other car parks in an area where the FS themselves already have two, one opened last week at Corso Meridionale.
In short, substance, but also lots of sequins. As they say in these cases, however, the baby should not be thrown away with the bath water. Because the point of no return is the citadel the governor wants. The area of land involved is 126,800 square meters. Of which 60 thousand – about 7 football fields – for the Headquarter which would then be the tower which, this transpires, will not be as high as those in the Business Center but certainly will not be lower than that of the FS which is 82 meters high and which it has dominated Piazza Garibaldi for half a century. The remaining 66,800 square meters will have these functions: hospitality, commercial, office and residential, yet another double of the Business Center. In between is the park and the little trees. A project that dialogues with the one that split the Union of Neapolitan Industrialists, to be clearer that of the Est (ra) Moenia Association of the entrepreneur Ambrogio Prezioso who despite being past president of the Union then resigned, together with others , from Palazzo Partanna. At this point it is worth summarizing the ambitions of the Prg where the variant is needed to intervene. Area 12 is Gianturco, here the manufacturability index is 0.8 per square meter.
The main points of the intervention are the recovery of industrial archeology, a new square in correspondence with the arrival of high speed and the creation of the avenue connecting the new square and the Ponticelli district. Area 23 is “Eastern Walls”, we are in the Porta Nolana area, where the reconstruction of via Diomede and via Carmignano is planned. Then the refurbishment of piazza Nolana and piazza Pepe and the redevelopment of the insula adjacent to the Circumvesuviana station and the station.