Neighborhoods. 130 million euros from the Government for the urban regeneration of Lorenteggio-Giambellino, San Siro and Niguarda

Neighborhoods. 130 million euros from the Government for the urban regeneration of Lorenteggio-Giambellino, San Siro and Niguarda

All three projects presented by the Municipality were admitted to the PINQua tender ranking 
 
Milan, July 23 2021 - The Municipality of Milan will be able to access financing of up to 130 million euros as part of the tender of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport of the "National Innovative Program for the Quality of Living (PINQua) in which it participated with three proposals for the regeneration of the Lorenteggio-Giambellino, San Siro and Niguarda districts. All three projects presented were in fact admitted to the competition ranking. 
 
"These are extraordinary resources that are concentrated in some of the neighborhoods of the city that most need interventions - declare the councilors Pierfrancesco Maran (Urban Planning), Gabriele Rabaiotti (Social and Housing Policies) and Marco Granelli (Mobility) -. We can strengthen the offer for housing emergencies, building more livable environments with greater opportunities, and also safer intersections, spaces for pedestrians and cyclists. All the interventions for which we have obtained ministerial coverage, in synergy with the other projects already financed by the Administration, they will bring a renewed quality of living for the benefit of residents, services and environmental and social sustainability for the entire Milanese community". 
 
The pilot project concerns a vast area that goes from the center to the Lorenteggio-Giambellino district, stitching the neighborhoods together (total value 135 million euros, of which 100 million financed through the tender), was ranked third in the ranking and concerns the regeneration of the housing fabric of neighborhoods characterized by profiles of housing and socioeconomic hardship, the redevelopment and reorganization of the existing building stock intended for social residential housing, a widespread transformation of the network of public spaces that starts from the forthcoming entry into operation of the new M4 metro line which crosses and innervates the area concerned, the increase in the quality of the natural environment. 
 
Through the tender it will be possible to access funding for the demolition and complete reconstruction of the public residential buildings in via dei Giaggioli 7/9/11 (with the construction of 210 new more efficient, sustainable and architectural barrier-free homes). Also connected to the Giambellino Lorenteggio neighbourhoods, the superficial installations of the new M4 line, West section and Center section, San Cristoforo area; the redevelopment of via Olona and the arrangement of the pedestrian entrance to the Museum of Science and Technology and the Olona-Modestino-Solari cycle path to connect the Cerchia dei Navigli cycle path with Solari-Giambellino; the creation of the preferential route for the circular 90-91 tram line from Piazza Zavattari to Piazza Stuparich and the cycle path connection and the new Lorenteggio Library. The projects are integrated with other interventions already financed with own resources or other state or European sources: the environmental redevelopment of the Lorenteggio district with a new equipped green area in via Giambellino 129, the Piazza Napoli-Giambellino cycle route and the reconstruction of the middle school in via Strozzi 11.  

The 'Move in' projects also entered the ranking, which will allow financing worth 15 million each. Moving properties, integrating services' for Niguarda and San Siro: two projects for two neighborhoods that look beyond the historic center in which to experiment with a single integrated model of housing services, proximity services and actions to support living, enhancing the networks already active territorial ones and introducing spaces where to promote innovative projects for the development of the local community. One is in the Greco-Niguarda area, to the north east, the other concerns the San Siro area, to the west. Both aim at the regeneration of areas and spaces already defined and built, and each identify a public property to be recovered and redesigned - in via Pianell in Niguarda and an Aler building in via Newton in San Siro, to which are added some public housing spread in the neighborhoods to be renovated - allocating it to transitional housing at a sustainable rent as the fulcrum of a broader plan to strengthen the housing system and urban welfare services, which also includes the arrangement of neighboring streets and public spaces, as well as the provision of new services of proximity available to the inhabitants of the neighborhood, in particular young people, such as laboratories, spaces dedicated to micro-enterprise, cultural activities, co-working and being together. The objective is therefore twofold: to increase both quantity and quality the transitional residential possibilities for people in difficulty, as well as for young students and workers, and at the same time contribute to the construction of more liveable neighborhoods, better served and capable of offering greater opportunities for those who live there.  
 
The lot in via Pianell, a total area of ​​approximately one thousand square meters, will include a complex building with five floors above ground, with a gross usable area of ​​approximately 2.900 square meters which will become a hub for temporary residence with various types of rooms/places bed (90, plus 5 mini accommodations). The spaces on the ground floor will be reserved for local services open to the neighbourhood. The project also involves the launch of differentiated support services for the hub's guests and the creation of a micro-entrepreneurial reality that can also offer job opportunities for the hub users themselves.  
 
At San Siro, the building in via Newton (now used as offices which will be moved to the neighboring via Zamagna), with a gross surface area of ​​1.965 m25, will be given on free loan for 104 years to the Administration which will arrange it, also with the optimization of spaces, to transform it into a hub for temporary residence with rooms for short stays and some mini accommodation for longer rentals, for a total of XNUMX beds. The works also include the completion of the first floor and the construction of a second, and the creation of spaces intended for shared services for the inhabitants, including a concierge, common rooms, a laundry room and a kitchen.  
 
Social support measures are also envisaged for this intervention both to support families in socio-economic difficulty leaving the temporary housing service towards other more stable solutions, and to support the micro-entrepreneurial start-up phase through which to create opportunities for professional placement and start-up. of services open to the neighborhood.  

 

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Updated: 22/07/2021