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Milan: Porta Nuova broadens its borders

11 September, La Repubblica

Porta Nuova is evolving, and it’s spreading more and more in the surrounding areas. Yesterday Coima Sgr presented a new piece for the requalification of the area. The project is called Corso Como Place, in Via Bonnet, and it’s worth 200 million euro. The investors are Coima Res and the fund Coima Opportunity Fund II.

“If we sum together all the intervention in Porta Nuova – said Manfredi Catella, Coima Res Ceo – we can see how the project is developing in terms of dimensions. We have reached a total surface of 200 Sq m, if we consider the two Unipol buildings, the tower Gioia22, the interests we acquired in Via Melchiorre Gioia 22, the building requalified by Generali in Via della Liberazione, the residential complexes in Via Pirelli and Corso Porta Nuova, the Amazon and Microsoft headquarter, and now Via Bonnet,”.

The requalification of the complex, which will be completed by 2020, aims at recovering a whole block between Via Tocqueville and Via Bonnet for a surface over 22 thousand Sq m. The project will link the public areas around the Feltrinelli Foundation offices and Microsoft House in Corso Como and Piazza Gae Aulenti trough pedestrian and cycling lanes. The block includes the 21-storey building over 70 metres high and the former Unilever headquarters. They’ll be joined soon by a building with a 4 thousand Sq m surface which will be occupied by offices and commercial spaces.

What about the demand? Coima Res hasn’t started the allocation yet, although requests from international and Italian companies have already come.

The office building will be the first in Milan to obtain the Well Building Certificate. Catella said: “We took The Edge in Amsterdam as a benchmark”. The building will have the most advanced communication systems which will allow to access and control remotely the services so that the employees can customise their workplace.

Source: La Repubblica

Translator: Cristina Ambrosi