Milan to leave San Siro

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Milan released a statement outlining their plans for a new 48,000-seater stadium in the Portello area of the city.

The project has been in the works for some time and today the club confirmed it has made a bid for the land, hoping to open the arena in 2018-19.

The stadium are would include a hotel, a school for the sports academy, restaurants, playground areas and spaces for young artists to showcase their work.

Milan’s staff studied more than 70 stadiums around the world when drawing up the project with Arup, who designed Bayern Munich’s Allianz Arena.

The stadium is meant to fit into the architecture of the city, so would be only 30m above ground compared to San Siro’s 60m.

New technology would prevent the sound seeping out of the stadium and public transport links aimed at minimising traffic congestion.

The plans predict 1,000 jobs created in its construction and 500 full-time employees once the stadium is up and running.

http://football-italia.net/62021/milan-u...dium-plans

Very nice! Arup has a good reputation around the world for their engineering abilities. If we get something that looks as good as or better than the Allianz Arena, I'll be quite pleased . 48k is a bit smaller than we're used to but we can get accustomed to it. Juventus stadium is only 41k.

EDIT: Hey Reza, what do you think about merging it with this thread? http://www.milanmania.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=587

Thanks for the post. This is the Italian version which has a little more detail than the football italia report.

http://www.milannews.it/primo-piano/ac-m...dio-167233

About capacity, one of the milannews articles mentioned that they are looking at 48,000 seats, but with a view of possibly increasing in the future.