Nothing to be done for the large hypermarket planned to be built on the Paullese. The Municipality of Cremona rejected the authorization request which provided for the opening of a Large Sales Structure (GSV) of the Shopping Center type on a sales area of approx. 7,660 (4,750 m² for the food sector and 2,910 m² for the non-food sector) consisting of a hypermarket of 4,500 m² for the food sector and m². 2,500 non-food sector and an average sales structure of 250 m2 in the food sector and 410 m2 in the non-food sector in Cremona in Via Picenengo. The reason for the refusal would be a “quibble” linked to the deadlines for the authorization request linked to the EIA. “The fourth and final session of the Services Conference was recalled on 11 April 2024, convened with note dated 04/05/2024 Pg. n.29296, in which the Regional Decree of the General Directorate for Environment and Climate n. 5591 of 9 April 2024, which established the subjection of the intervention in question to an EIA procedure, declaring pursuant to paragraph 6 of article 6 of Regional Law 2 February 2010 n.6 that the application in question cannot be accepted and which therefore must be rejected since it is not possible to conclude the EIA procedure within the deadline for concluding the authorization procedure.” we read in the document of the Municipality of Cremona. The Cardaminopsis area has been talked about for many years now. An area already foreseen by the Territorial Plan as commercial for which no variation is foreseen. Originally the area was 120 square meters, and the name comes from the flower first studied in Cremona. We talk about the area cyclically again. A shopping center in the area has been discussed for at least thirty years, even before the arrival of the Cremona Po. First there was talk of a mega commercial settlement (the implementation plan dates back to 1998, expired in 2008, extended by the Corada Council to 31 December 2012 ), then of a luxury outlet of the multinational Foruminvest which had already advertised it on its website with the name “Le Ghirlande di Cremona” because the architecture recalled the skyline of our city (the multinational withdrew from the project in October 2009) . The project was sized on the needs of a city of 70,000 inhabitants, but taking into account a catchment area of 250,000 people within a 30-minute journey. The area involved was approximately 120,000 square meters, providing for the commercial development of an area of 27,502 square meters of sales and stock area with a complete product mix, capable of offering the customer a qualified and specialized offer, with an area of parking for approximately 1800 cars. Then everything fell silent until 2013 except for some formal proceedings. Today the procedure seems to have definitively collapsed. At least until a new authorization request.
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