The motion of the municipal councilor of Lavoriamo per Varese was approved with a unanimous vote by the municipal council of Varese, Guido Bonoldiwhich aims to transform the former Bettole tram station into a space dedicated to social initiatives.
The building, owned by the State and decommissioned since 1955, with a total surface area of approximately 2000 square metres, was considered an ideal candidate for an urban regeneration project, and is part of a broader vision of urban regeneration and environmental, in the logic of the new Territorial Government Plan (PGT), which emphasizes the importance of themes such as social inclusion and building regeneration.
Among the proposals for reusing the property, there are a series of experimental projects carried out by the students of the Politecnico di Milanopresented several years ago to the municipal administration, and the most recent proposal put forward by Gulliver Center which proposes the use of the external area for the cultivation of agricultural products according to the organic method and a laboratory for the transformation of the same products, as well as a school of agriculture and poor cuisine, open to the territory: a sales point in the city with an on-site grow space. Production, sale and job placement for guests of the Therapeutic Communities.
«The motion was born after reading these very concrete proposals for a redevelopment of this site and the aim is to try to provide help as a municipal administration so that the public property can make this property available with a sale that put yourself back in the game for your qualification – he commented after the approval Guido Bonoldi – I am very happy that the entire city council supported this motion.”
The Bettole station when it was in operation
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