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EXPO AREA REPORT
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Contemporary cities 2019 The Stadium: An Unfulfilled Project The area chosen for the project is situated is in the north-west sector of Milan and was 90% placed in the municipality of the capital and for the remaining 10% in that of Rho, near the Fiera Milano exhibition center. Various projects have been combined with this area for its redevelopmentafter the Expo ended. One of the first controversies was in the far 2014, even before the start of the international fair. It concerns the two major soccer teams in Milan: F.C. Internazionale and A. C. Milan, along with the municipality. The A. C. Milan company had already proposed a project and a masterplan for the construction of the stadium and an adjacent sport citadel( example in photo ) but the idea was shelved due to too high costs and corporate problems with F. C. Internazionale who disagreed with the idea of moving from the historic stadium Giuseppe Meazza and did not want to reinvest too much money in the redevelopment of the same. The stadium project was soon abandoned and other proposals for the redevelopment of the area arose.
After the fair took place in 2015 all the pavilions were dismantled and remained a million square meters to be transformed in international examples of science parks in three different ways: with part of the areas to be allocated to public centers, others to sell (as for the Galeazzi hospital) and others to rent. Let’s start with this last slice, the one that is attracting more and more companies. In this moment, in fact, to have shown interest to conquer a space are realities, also international, different companies. The bigger one is the Watson Health center of Ibm which negotiated from 2014 with the government to make this place its European reference for computerization in the health field. Same as the stadium, even the Ibm abandoned the idea of centralizing in one place all its offices scattered around Milan and its surroundings due to the cost and the resistance of individual buildings to move away from the present place. Only the Human Technopole is now a reality, but it was accused of inefficient use of the huge funds he was in charge of managing of the 800 million euros of funding allocated in recent years, almost 500 million were not spent. The criticisms at IIT have changed the original plan for entrusting the area to the Human Technopole: since the end of March 2018, with the approval of the Foundation’s statute, the IIT has finished its task.