The PEC with the technical-economic feasibility project arrived at the addresses of the Mayor and the urban planning department at 7.20pm. However, it took very little for the news to circulate because the anticipation for Roma’s stadium in Pietralata had become intense. It is “a decisive step”, recalled Gualtieri, but the road to laying the first stone is still long.
The current level of design
What the Giallorossi club sent to the Capitol is a PFTE term which from 2023 has replaced the old “preliminary project”. Compared to the latter, it integrates the general profiles with specialized studies and a more in-depth cost analysis. However, it is a planning level that precedes the executive phase which must be reached with further steps on a technical and political-administrative level. Necessary steps that also involve city institutions.
However, the road to building the future Giallorossi temple marked an important advance. It concretely lays the foundations to create “”one of the most ambitious and modern sports infrastructures in Europe”. And it could become a source of pride for the fans, given the intention to create a “monumental curve, the largest in Europe, designed as the beating heart of the stadium and symbol of Roma passion”.
What is missing to build the stadium
On an operational level, the urban planning councilor Maurizio Veloccia has well summarized what the next steps will be. “Now the departmental offices will have to verify the project’s compliance with the requirements that emerged in the preliminary services conference and those indicated by the Capitoline Assembly with the resolution on the public interest” recalled councilor Veloccia. Only at that point can a resolution be prepared that the Capitoline Assembly will have to approve and with which the mayor, or his representative, will be given a mandate to participate in the final services conference. To date, what has been presented is a project which, as reported by Trigoria, “represents the synthesis of in-depth work, carried out with technical rigor and attention to sustainability”.
It is the concrete translation of that intention that Dan Friedkin had declared in giving up Tor di Valle. A choice made because As Roma needed “a green stadium, sustainable and integrated with the environment”. The feasibility project, which precedes the executive one, meets these criteria for the Giallorossi club. However, not everyone agrees. The Giallorossi club and the Capitol also have to deal with the “no stadium” committees which, after the battle for the recognition of the Pietralata forest, have launched another initiative to try to block the project.
The warning and the criticism
On Monday 22nd, on the eve of the presentation of the technical-economic feasibility project, a warning was sent to all the Capitoline councilors, of which both the Anac and the State Superintendence were made aware. Those elected in the Giulio Cesare Chamber and the technical representatives of the municipality were warned to “follow up on any action of evaluation, certification, confirmation, validation” of the documentation relating to “a possible definitive project” proposed by As Roma since, according to the “Coordinamento Sì Parco No Stadio” which sent the document, it does not comply with the resolution of the Capitoline assembly. In particular, it is contested that the administration “did not verify the compliance of the definitive project with the requirements, conditions and recommendations resulting from the preliminary services conference”. The times for the construction of the new stadium will also have to take into account any legal actions by those who, until now, have opposed the stadium planned in Pietralata.
