Several hours have now passed since the proclamation of the winning project in the international competition for reconstruction of the Franchi and the Campo di Marte district. And now there are also many who have expressed their position on the matter, therefore, rest assured, this will not be yet another article where the proposal presented by the consortium including Arup, Cucinella e Cupelloni.
We are more interested in highlighting other aspects of the stadium event, dispelling a lot of myths and trying to get rid of some information that is circulating, but which does not correspond to the truth. And above all, focus on what the Fiorentina from now on.
“This project prevents Fiorentina from having its own stadium”. First mistake. The purple club, independently of the Franks, had and still has its hands free. Basically, Commissoif he wants, he may decide to leave the facility where the team currently plays and build a proprietary facility. Of course, if you want land where you can build the plant and a commercial area of ’normal’ size, that’s one thing. If, on the other hand, it has the expectation of having 60-70 hectares available (such as Diego Della Valle to understand each other) then it is late at night, because land of this size in Florence and its province is almost impossible to find.
It is true, if the owner of the purple club had had the opportunity to act on the Franchi he would have undoubtedly saved time, because there was already a stadium there, there was no need for particular negotiations for the acquisition, there were no make changes to regulatory plans etc … But, and here we come to another crucial point, on the Franks there are irreconcilable positions that have prevented Commisso from acting. The stadium, whether you like it or not, is a monument, it is bound and whoever wants to act to modify it must comply with certain rules. One of these constraints is that the curves cannot be knocked down while the Fiorentina owner had instead set the demolition of the entire stadium as the key point of his project, except for a couple of elements. (the Tower of Maratona and the displacement of the famous Helical Stairs). Who wants to see a political will to “block Commisso“In all this do so. The reality, however, is another.
Once these specifications have been made, another assumption is void: “There was an entrepreneur who would have done all the work and instead it was decided to spend public money to redo the Franks”. Let’s start from above, therefore, under the conditions in which the Franchi will be redone, Commisso he would never have entered the scene and therefore it is useless to continue to swear at how the story has evolved. There was quite a problem, which was pointed out by many: the stadium in Florence is fragile, it is not in good shape from a structural point of view and needs interventions to prevent it from imploding. Someone had to intervene in the face of all this, and this beyond Fiorentina or not Fiorentina, and this path was followed, namely that of finding funds from the PNRR and the international competition to give new life to the structure designed by the architect Nervi. Let’s not forget that this stadium is still owned by the Municipality and those who administer the city have obligations to respect in front of public goods. All the more so if they are also considered monuments.
