The Roma stadium in Pietralata is proceeding, but there are also those who say no
ROME – They want a public park instead of a stadium. And to make you feel their voicethat of citizens concerned about the accumulation of cement in the neighborhood and the problems associated with the road network, founded the “Pietralata Stadium Committee, No Thanks”. Yesterday afternoon, the members of this organization called a public meeting (about 70 participants), during which the reasons for the “no” were listed in contrast to those for the “yes” (also supported by the new Minister for Sport, Abodi ), which vice versa demonstrate how much a new plant creates jobs, generates revenues and redevelops the area in which it is located.
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The members of the Committee have defined «absurd» the fact that such a project is «dropped from above without any participatory process of citizens». In fact, the stadium would occupy the only space destined for public greenery in the old SDO (Oriental Management System) project designed in the 1950s to relocate the city’s management infrastructure (offices, Istat headquarters, universities) outside the center. To open the debatestaged at the Circolo Arci in via del Frantoio, it was Emilio Giacomi of Italia Nostra, who complained about the “lack of transparency on the part of the administration given that the feasibility project has not been published”. The former councilor for urban planning Paolo Berdini, one of the best known opponents of the stadium in Tor di Valle (“enough to cost me my job”), also expressed his doubts about Pietralata: «In a neighborhood that has a dramatic hunger for greenery, it is terrible to lose 80 hectares like this». According to Berdini “here there is no “mister no”, but only people who love a city that unfortunately is collapsing». While remaining critical of the issue, the former councilor recognized differences with respect to the ambitions of Bullet: “That area was private, this is public. There he wanted to build a new neighborhood to justify a stadium and I shouldn’t have signed even under torture, in this case at least you only want to build the stadium without offices, hotels and buildings. But this green space shouldn’t be touched: why not be able to dream of Villa Borghese in Pietralata instead of other concrete?». The meeting was also attended by the president of the Urban Planning Commission of the Lazio Region, Marco Cacciatore, and Vittorio Sartogo of the coordination of the associations for alternative mobility.
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Meanwhile, the Preliminary Services Conference is moving towards the conclusion. The second step in the process is the resolution of public interest in the Shareholders’ Meeting, scheduled for the second week of January. In the intentions of the proponents, the foundation stone would be laid by the end of 2024. The CEO of As Roma, Peter Berardiin recent days he spoke of «urban redevelopment, sustainability and modernity» as strengths of the project and imagined the new facility as the flagship of the 2032 European Championship (Italy has applied to host the event). The club is already moving to find who will design the new home and for several days the name of Populous, creator studio of the Emirates and Wembley, has been mentioned.
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