MESSINA – A park where there were shacks. We are almost there. The inauguration will take place this week as part of the renovation. Half the park is ready to be returned to the city. The unfinished historic Camaro Sant’Antonio has finally taken shape and color. And the green of the new lawn and the colors of the rainbow break up the grayness of the surrounding buildings. The works that began in February are now in their final stages. A completely redeveloped area, the first to rise from the ashes of the barracks. In several rehabilitation areas of Messina, small houses have been demolished and the rubble removed but in none of them has an urban park yet been built. A regeneration that will soon also see the light on viale Giostra, in the Magnolia park and in the former shantytown of Salita Tremonti.
Points out Matilde Siracusano, Undersecretary for Relations with Parliament and Forza Italia member of Messina: “Next week in Camaro, a suburban district of Messina, the first public work resulting from the redevelopment started in the city of the Strait will be inaugurated, above all thanks to an initiative by Forza Italia. Initiative with which 100 million euros were allocated, following the indications of the law on slums for which I worked for years in Parliament. We are talking about an area that had remained abandoned, after the shacks present in that quadrant were demolished way back in 2002”.
“Messina can be a model for other suburbs”
Siracusano highlights: “After 22 years the commissioner structure for the recovery, upon input from the sub commissioner Marcello Scurria, managed to start the works and complete them: this is the true meaning of the renovation. Not only tear down houses and build new ones, but above all buy housing to hand over to families, thus avoiding land consumption and possible new ghettos. The objective is always to redevelop the suburbs, provide green works, give new life to many neighborhoods. This is the Messina model, a successful model that we want to continue to carry forward in our city and perhaps export to other areas of the country to renovate the degraded and abandoned areas of the suburbs”.
