Milan Mayor Aiming To Sell San Siro To Inter, AC Milan By Summer

The mayor of Milan announced on Tuesday that he hoped to sell the iconic old ground to the Serie A clubs before the summer, boosting Inter Milan and AC Milan’s bid to build a new stadium on the site of the San Siro.

Giuseppe Sala stated on RTL 102.5 that he wanted to hear from the two clubs a formal feasibility study and an offer to buy them, which he would then forward to Milan’s city council.

By the start of the summer holidays, Sala stated, “the goal is to sell the stadium and the surrounding area.”

Inter and Milan, the Giants of European football, have long wished to build a modern neighborhood in place of the city’s current San Siro, and they recently resurrended a joint project that was turned down in 2023 after slogging its way through the bureaucratic and political corridors.

The project’s original feasibility study, which was originally estimated at 1.3 billion euros, will only be partially modified to include the city’s San Siro, where it would be used for green space as well as a variety of sports and entertainment venues.

A new stadium, which was originally planned to have a capacity of 60, 000 but has since been increased to over 70, 000, would be constructed in the area to the west of the current stadium, which is occupied by car parking and a nearby park.

The main difference is that Inter and Milan would purchase the land instead of rent it, and work will not begin until the upcoming Winter Olympics, for which the current San Siro will host the opening ceremony.

The clubs will renovate the old stadium, which will remain in place until 2030, according to Sala, adding that it will take a few years before the new stadium is ready.

– Political unease

A building protection order preventing the demolition of the second tier of the current stadium will automatically take effect if the San Siro and surrounding land are sold soon, which is important for the clubs and Sala.

However, Milan city councillors of all political parties have expressed unease as a result of Sala’s attempt to force the project through in order to avoid becoming the mayor who made two of the biggest football clubs in the world leave the city.

In 2023, AC Milan purchased 40 million euros worth of land in the nearby town of San Donato Milanese while Inter looked at sites in Rozzano and Assago, both of which were located in the city’s south.

It would cost Sala’s center-left administration money to relocate the clubs, leaving Italy’s economic center with a sizable unused stadium on its outskirts, which would no longer pay the seven million euros in annual rent and would need to be repurposed or destroyed.

Source: Channels TV