From the historic wound of the former Police Headquarters to the opportunity to create a new redeveloped neighborhood, with functions, services, public areas, in a central and strategic area of the city. A more concrete prospect today thanks to the draft agreement between the Municipality of Rimini and the Ariminum real estate development company for the implementation of the urban redevelopment and regeneration intervention in the area of the former police headquarters in via Ugo Bassi. A proposal presented this morning in the third councilor commission, which expressed a favorable opinion (no votes against, three councilors abstained) for an agreement that could make it possible to give a decisive turning point to an affair that has been going on for 25 years now, the result of intense months of work and discussion between the Municipal Administration and the private company that owns the area.
The proposal, which will be submitted to the vote of the City Council as early as next week, is in fact based on an important revision of the previous project presented by Asi as part of the request for participation in the program agreement for the redevelopment of the area. In particular, the agreement presents a downsizing and balancing of the planned functions (commercial, residential, public areas for greenery, parking and roads) and the harmonization of the project of the former police headquarters area with the other urban planning and urban redevelopment processes that concern the sector: the Integrated Social Residential Building Program (PIERS), the redevelopment of the Romeo Neri stadium, the construction of the Security Citadel at the former Giulio Cesare Barracks, with a view to redesigning the entire neighborhood through an overall vision.
“With this proposed agreement we are close to healing a wound that the city has been carrying for at least 25 years – comments the councilor Roberta Frisoni – since, that is, in 1999, the agreement was signed between the Municipality and the Dama company, then owner of the area, for the construction of what was to become the new Rimini police headquarters. We are literally talking about another historical era, the last century: in the meantime, everything has happened. And many choices have been made over the heads of the Administration and therefore of the citizens, who have then suffered the consequences. It has been an uphill path from the start: the wait for the signing of an agreement between Dama and the Ministry that has always been announced and just as often delayed, the repeated reminders from the Municipality, the start of litigation against the company for non-fulfilment of the contract, up until the bankruptcy of Dama which has made everything even more complicated, if possible. And in the meantime, the shame of the police headquarters has grown in step with the degradation of the area and the legitimate weariness of the citizens, not only the residents”.
“With the acquisition of the property at auction by Asi three years ago, a new chapter in history opened, this too a complex one – continues Frisoni – which was also nourished by heated exchanges between the parties. Today, however, we are in a position to have arrived at a synthesis that we believe balances together the needs of the private sector with the pursuit of the public interest. For us, the public interest is to ensure that that neighborhood can be increasingly livable, served, accessible and as a priority to achieve the demolition of the ‘monster’ of the former police station. We have arrived at an agreement through close negotiations which provides for a significant reduction in surface area, the company’s commitment to the immediate demolition of the property and the transfer to the Municipality of important public facilities for greenery, parking and roads. Overall we can say that we have started a path that will lead us to the redevelopment of the entire neighbourhood, effectively anticipating the Pug as done with the beach plan, arriving at the definition of a project that harmoniously holds together Ers, Romeo stadium Blacks and the citadel of security”.
The intervention will be divided into two phases: the first phase involves the complete demolition of the former police headquarters and subsequently the implementation of the public intervention consisting of the housing provided for in the PIERS and the construction of the medium-small sales structure. The second phase instead involves the construction of the second private intervention (residential and a small share of neighborhood businesses and public establishments). The demolition of the former police headquarters will take place immediately after the signing of the agreement.
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