Corriere della sera: Milan regenerated by saving the soil: the map of large urban projects in abandoned areas

Real estate Scenarios report on the expansion of the metropolis: of the 181.8 square kilometers of city area, 106.7 are already urbanised. The new construction sites between former railway yards and peripheral industrial areas.
If you want to build you have to "recycle" what has already been consumed. In Milan it is worth more than elsewhere, given that 106.7 of the 181.8 square kilometers of city area are already urbanised. A fact that emerged from the presentation of the report on urban regeneration in Italy created by Scenari Immobiliare and Unipol. Urban regeneration is precisely that "recycling": operations that take place on still intact soil or which, when they use new soil, recover the ecosystem in an equivalent surface.
Explains the president of Scenari Immobiliare, Mario Breglia. «The past has left us with many voids: abandoned factories, railway areas, office complexes that are no longer adequate. Not only regulations but also ethics require us not to consume green land, except in exceptional cases, but to operate and transform urbanized areas that are no longer used or abandoned".
In Italy the land to be regenerated amounts to 920 square kilometers, five of which are in our city. For Milan and its metropolitan area, the report lists 18 major projects, seven underway and 11 soon to be launched. Those in progress, the two large railway yards Farini and Romana, Mind, Santa Giulia, Milano Sesto, Sei Milano and Symbiosis are well defined. The others are in the starting blocks but appear destined to change the face and real estate values ​​of areas of the former industrial suburbs. Like the recovery of Ex Innocenti. Around the 100 thousand square meters of the Lambretta Park, the Magnifica factory will be built, a 67 thousand m2 project by the Municipality, where the Scala will bring together laboratories, test rooms, tailor's shops and warehouses, as well as multi-purpose and refreshment rooms. There are two projects at Bovisa. The first is Campus Goccia, 320 thousand m2 occupied by student residences, the Civic schools of Milan and an urban forest. Promoters Palazzo Marino and the Polytechnic. The second is MoLeCoLa, a residential, tertiary and commercial functional mix promoted by Hines. In Calvairate, at the former Macello, Aria will be built, promoted by Redo: 150 thousand meters for the international campus of the IED (European Institute of Design), a scientific museum district and affordable homes. It will be the first carbon negative neighborhood in Milan, that is, with a carbon dioxide compensation greater than that deriving from the environmental impact. Unipol promotes two operations. The first is the redevelopment of via Stephenson, at the Certosa airport: 47 thousand meters for tertiary and commercial use. There are 135 thousand meters of the Up Green project in Bruzzano, which in addition to residential and tertiary properties will see the construction of healthcare facilities. Two operations, explains Massimiliano Morrone, CEO of UnipolSai Investimenti sgr, «carried out thanks to the transfer of volumes from building areas located to the south of the city with which we have freed approximately 450 thousand square meters of green areas which will maintain their agricultural vocation». Two operations on the third ring road of small surface area but of great importance. The redevelopment of Piazzale Loreto, covering 9 thousand square metres, envisaged by the Loc project, promoted by Nhood and the Municipality, with the construction of an office building and new green areas in one of the busiest road junctions in Milan and the European Library of Porta Vittoria : 13 thousand square meters with green areas promoted by the Municipality. Finally, in Greater Milan, the completion of the recovery of the former Alfa Romeo area, between Arese, Garbagnate and Lainate. 700 thousand m2 with a mix of residential and non-residential functions. Promoters are the municipalities and the metropolitan city.