San Siro, uphill road for the sale. The municipality sets the stakes for public contribution to reclamation and demolition

A meeting that does not indicate the final choice but takes time. This was the outcome of the discussion on the sale of the San Siro between the deputy mayor of Milan, Anna Scavuzzo, who is also temporarily delegated to Urban Planning (until another councillor is found), and the leaders of the PD.

However, some stakes have been set by the municipality, as reported by the Pd group leader Beatrice Uguccioni, on the public co-participation in any additional costs that the Inter and Milan teams might incur. There is talk of a ceiling of 9 million for reclamation; 12 million for the redevelopment of the Patroclus tunnel and another 12 million for the demolition of the stadium. Evaluations that, however, will be made once the work has been completed by Inter and Milan, or in any case at an advanced stage of construction.

Added to this is the legality committee's request for guarantees on the financial capacity of the buyers (through the use of sureties) and on the continuity of the project (through the earn-out mechanism: if in the first five years the teams sold the area to third parties at higher values than those established, the municipality would collect a capital gain of up to 50 per cent, and then reduce).

Everyone was present at Palazzo Marino yesterday: both the representatives of the PD group in the city council and the leaders of the Milanese party. But a clear position on the sale of San Siro to Inter and Milan, after six years of debate, is still not there. Or rather: perhaps there would have been, but the investigations by the public prosecutor's office on Urban Planning have further complicated the scenario. Generally speaking, the majority of democrats would have supported the resolution of the junta led by Beppe Sala, which at this point would have already started the sale to the football clubs for 197 million, a figure indicated by the Agenzia delle Entrate. However, the Milan prosecutors' investigations have laid bare a possible interest of real estate finance in these areas as well, and so the democrats find themselves faced with a difficult choice: support the Milanese junta or politically mark their distance from urban planning choices that have ended up in the pages of the investigations. In essence: take on a heavy - yet necessary - political responsibility or save face. Not easy.

That is why the PD is taking its time. For now, it seeks the neutral narrative of project assessment. True fact, for sure: there are issues to be thoroughly examined, including precisely the possible additional costs that could be unloaded by the teams on the City Council, such as the reclamation of green areas, the redevelopment of the Patroclus tunnel, the partial demolition of the Meazza stadium (and on which, as said, Palazzo Marino is trying to set a limit).