The former MiraLanza industrial complex on the edge of the Rivarolo district in Valpolcevera ceased operations in 1999, and since then the vast four-hectare area has not found a functional use. Various town-planning proposals followed one another, which never found concrete implementation, and which envisaged reconverting the complex to residential functions with decidedly large sizes and volumes. The ineffectiveness of these forecasts was due to a misreading of the real vocation of the area, in a barycentric position for the city’s commercial traffic, lapped by the railway and close to the main road links.
In 2020, the municipal administration realised the potential of this area and, with an amendment to the general town planning instrument, envisaged new uses that would confirm the productive identity of the place, but with a green perspective and without renouncing the opening up of spaces to the surrounding neighbourhood, weighed down by a long history of urban decay. Cospe s.r.l., based on a project by Domus Ing.&Arch. s.r.l. and Ferrando Architetti, after knocking down the factory walls, is building a new logistics pole to which it will add a completely renewed road system to decongest the district, public green spaces and fully accessible sports areas, inserted in a new urban fabric, harmoniously combining economic development with urban regeneration.
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