Florence, 14 June 2024 – “What will I do if I am mayor? I will suspend work at Franchi”. The promise of Eike Schmidta few days after ballot, arrives with a post on social media. “From this year and for a long time in the stadium there will not be room for all the fans – thus begins Schmidt’s post on the Franchi stadium – The club is at loggerheads with the Municipality which in recent years has prevented the most logical solution: the new stadium!”.
After the suspension of work on the Franchi stadium, the centre-right candidate states that he will begin “immediately the project for the new stadium (there are spaces) which will be built and financed by ACF Fiorentina, together with ACF or with project financing. It can be done quickly, as happened with the Viola Park and it will cost less to adapt the current stadium.”
Then when the team and the fans “finally have a suitable home – continues Schmidt – we will start the redevelopment of the Franchi. It will be the Center Pompidou of the twenty-first century. A cutting-edge structure for architecture, design and technology in collaboration with businesses and universities. The cultural production of Florence will once again be at the center of the world!”.
