It was the month of April of 2011 and Milan were under the municipal elections that would have seen the extraordinary and unexpected victory of Giuliano Pisapia. A few days earlier, also in April, was approved on PII CERBA of the Biomedical Research Centre located in the heart of South Park, born of a program agreement of the Regional Council of 2006, strong in the support of a bit ‘all the players in the entrepreneurial Milan, right and left, the majority and opposition by environmentalists and property developers, in short, to use a fashionable term, an intervention promoted by a kind of grand coalition without even a shadow of a dispute or disagreement.
During the municipal elections, I had used a bit ‘naive to circulate a document that showed the faces of the different actors , challenging to guess the names of the recipients, a game to stimulate reflection around what seemed and seems always free and useless as an offense to our city. Offended because such a work could and can find a place in places better served, perhaps already compromised as the disused railway yards, without consuming soil, without unnecessary broadening of urban boundaries.
I think it is important still, these days crucial for the fate of the park, list the names of the protagonists and responsible for this each other, to remind all the troubles that crony capitalism is able to produce only a logic of profit as an end in itself.
We come to the characters involved. Leader of the chain good character, Professor Veronesi, useful testimonial for a financial-real estate that had absolute need of a fig leaf medical-scientific. Immediately below the national Stefano, the Boers, the smart-architect able to design and promote a project very much in line with the fashions and slogans of the moment and that would justify the operation (not just this one) at many sanctuaries left government. As the owner of the land, the usual Salvatore (Ligresti) can offer the right location at the right time: six hundred thousand square meters in the heart of Agricul tural Park.
And then the banks, including Unicredit all before with Profumo, the banker who vote in the primaries and then with Caesar Ceroni or Galatateri di Genola representing before Mediobanca and then a bit of everything ‘. The industrial revolution could not slip away, and behold, the stainless Tronchetti Provera and Franco Bernabe, representing Pirelli and Telecom indebitatissima, known to be concerned and competent in the field of biomedical research. The Corriere della Sera could not to miss his support and label media also as a founding member. Finally (I think) as an insurer Fondiaria SAI does not remove anyone. class=”c1″> But the most interesting team, which went through several legislatures, municipal, provincial and regional is that policy, which saw the active presence of both Filippo Penati before, both by Guido Podestà then, aided by the good Bruna Brembilla, environmentalist president of the Park, in turn allied, both by Letizia Moratti with the commissioner and Masseroli the supervision of the good Formigoni. All a bit ‘here and a little’ over there, but always in agreement: the CERBA to be done and to be done right there in via Ripamonti, in full South Park
This photograph, which depicts a virtual and joyous class photos, a sort of war machine able to establish one million cubic meters in an area served badly and precious landscapes, has not seen getting a finger in protest. Some statement of ritual, some formal observation to different opinions but nothing significant and strong.
We radicals, with our adviser to the municipality of Milan, Marco Cappato, we have tried to do so. With a formal query, in February 2012, was asked to give body and the five referendum citizens just voted to both the new widespread sensitivity in terms of containment of land consumption. The request to open a debate to move the CERBA, found nell’assessore De Cesaris the easiest answer: wait, wait events and …. hope. Hope that the agreement was not signed, the money for the guarantees were no longer available. class=”c1″> In fact, the hope was rewarded. Soon Telecom and Mediobanca have backtracked. Something is jammed, the crisis has advised caution to many of the joyful team of founders and some signal has warned. But it was the failure of the group companies Ligresti, owner of the areas but indebted to more than 300 million euro with Unicredit and others, to put an end to the good intentions of Vero nesi and then to reveal the true interests of finance of the brick, which are obviously far from scientific research. class=”c1″> Sure to keep him inside, the professor, expendable and bipartisan, he is won over to give to evoke alternative or mess-ups desperate: City of Health together with the Cerba or the Cerba with the Institute of Cancer. Other imaginative combinations could still surprise, these days, even the most jaded wheeler.
Unicredit, just obliged to rent to itself the fruit of its loans, the tower of Porta Nuova, try to return the debts trying to keep alive the overbuilding ( development rights) of that portion of South Park and to do so, the newspapers tell, the new advisor, (new manner of speaking, the usual Manfredi Catella, CEO of Hines, just heartened by the Emir of piggy banks shift) , calls for the removal constraint health. Instead of laboratories and health-lane proposal seems to be an extraordinary idea of ??where all the Milanese actually feel the need: a nice new, shiny, shopping mall. We are confident that the commissioner De Cesaris will say no to this option but the various Podesta, Maroni and Mantovani are limbering up to defend the now failed attempt to create a center of excellence for biomedical research, to come up with an alternative to be made available to operators ready to tear the ground still available, despite the same, as a whole, fai l to close real estate transactions already initiated and which are over one hundred thousand unsold housing. Perhaps, dear Board Pisapia, it is appropriate to say enough.
Francesco Spadaro
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