Catania, real estate agencies and developers are gutting the city In Catania, on the occasion of the last electoral campaign for the administrative elections, ASIA USB had made a request to whoever had won the elections to establish the municipal housing department as part of the creation of a Plan for the House.
To date, no Housing Plan, no Housing Department, while we are forced to note that the only ones in Catania who manage a sort of “House Plan” are the 102 real estate agencies active in the city, agencies that proliferate like the Cafs and the Patronati.
Very active real estate agencies in the historic center – the context also includes the “historic” popular neighborhoods – which has fewer and fewer resident inhabitants-tenants evicted due to often innocent arrears or because the lease has expired, or because the inhabitants-owners themselves have not resisted the offer cash from the real estate agency.
Once purchased, most of these homes – single houses and blocks of flats – will have to be extensively renovated and most of them will become holiday homes, B&Bs, luxury offices and “fashionable” sales points.
In particular, the “big” real estate agencies are active in the dismemberment of the historic center, some linked to European and even Israeli multinationals.
Another category that has a “House Plan” is that of the Palazzinari, those with a capital “P”. Here are some examples of Palazzinari in activity. Activity clearly visible to all those who, obviously, want to see:
1) Via Battello 27, under construction in “Torre Flo”, 12 floors, 74
apartments, 120 square meters of solar panels, 400 square meters of vertical garden. Construction company “Nostra Immobiliare”, also active in Poland through “Eolian Park Spolka Akcyjna”.
2) Via Vincenzo Giuffrida, there is the “Torre G.”,
11 floors, 40 meters high, construction company “LA.GI. Construction” of Catania.
3) Via Dalnazia 29, the “Blue Residence”, 7 floors plus parking.
Construction company “Pyramis Costruzioni”.
4) Viale Africa 180, the “Viva Flo” complex will be built, which involves the construction of 18 apartments, 9 offices and 8 spaces for commercial use in two buildings.
5) Via Scammarca, near Via Firenze, a new complex under construction, which involves the construction of a 15-storey building with underground parking spaces.
In this reality, the historic center of Catania is destined to become a mega tourist village, while the city’s bourgeoisie and middle class rise towards the sky by purchasing “homes” in the mega-buildings under construction.
Housing dismemberment of the historic center and tower blocks for the rich, yet another exodus from the city. Towards where?
May 23, 2024 – © Reproduction possible WITH EXPLICIT CONSENT of the CONTROPIANO EDITORIAL TEAM
Last edit: May 23, 2024, 10:46 am
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