After that ofex Velamp agreed with Venegono Superiorethe Municipality of Castiglione Olona brings home another urban regeneration intervention which will change the face of an important area of the country. It’s about‘ex Lombardi, an area of approximately 16 thousand square meters where the Lombardi eyewear industry once stood, closed for years, which is located in the area adjacent to the middle schools and the Mazza sports field. Production area created in the years of widespread and unregulated industrialization, was purchased by a company – the FA Immobiliare of Pogliano Milanese – which will intervene by eliminating the warehouses and transforming it into a residential area.
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In Castiglione Olona the urban regeneration project of the former Lombardi 4 of 7
The mayor presented the project this afternoon in the Municipality Giancarlo Frigeri with the deputy mayor Paolo Guerrathe designer Antonio Lanzo and the person responsible for the municipal technical office Alessandro Limido.
«Here, over time, the warehouses found themselves in a purely residential and service area – explained architect Lanzo – Now that industrial zones have been created with the development of urban planning, companies rightly choose to go to area D and areas like this, if not governed, become detached from the urban fabric, areas destined for degradation.”
Plan, supported by the regional law on urban regeneration and from an agreement with the Municipality, will lead to a complete change of scenario: «They will be there homes and a series of positive interventions also at the service of schools and sports fields – said Frigeri – The company will enjoy the benefits provided by the regional law and provided for in the agreement with the Municipality. To deduct the remaining urbanization costsapproximately 24 thousand euros, works will be carried out to serve the new homes and the community for a value of approximately 500 thousand euros». Among these one cycle/pedestrian connection to the middle school and the gymAnd a car park that will also serve the school and the Mazza stadium. «The value of this operation is not the money – added the mayor – but the recovery of the area and its urban redevelopment, with an improvement also in terms of traffic.
«We are pushing these urban regeneration interventions and the former Lombardi is a great opportunity – said the deputy mayor finally Paolo Guerra – Just like the agreement with the Municipality of Venegono Superiore for the former Velamp, in this case too a problematic situation of abandonment is resolved and, in addition to the redevelopment of the area, the improvements in connections and services for all citizens”.
Shops, apartments and greenery: this is how the former Velamp industrial area of Venegono Superiore is reborn
