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Unicredit says goodbye to Pavilion

21 December, Milano Finanza

The project was presented in 2015. After the completion of the headquarters in Piazza Gae Aulenti in Milan, Unicredit unveiled Pavilion, the multifunctional space designed by the architect Michele De Lucchi, with a capacity of 700 seats in its auditorium, exhibition spaces, a lounge area on the roof-top and a creche for 50 children. “The Pavilion will be an innovative centre at disposal of the city, true to the European identity of the company and at the same time rooted in the territory”, declared at the inauguration the then Ceo Federico Ghizzoni. Today, the new course started with Jean Pierre Mustier calls for the rationalization of spaces and it’s not excluded that in the next months Pioneer, bought by Amundi, will leave the five floors it occupies in one of the towers of the bank. The tangible sign of this change is the goodbye to Pavilion. The bank, in fact, has decided to put it for sale for a price comprised between 40 and 50 million. The negotiations are almost concluded. In pole position for the acquisition, there is the group Coima of Manfredi Catella, thanks also to the pre-emption right that the company obtained by Unicredit. Among the objectives of Coima, that has recently inaugurated its new headquarters few steps away from Piazza Gae Aulenti, there is the possible transformation of the Pavilion into a space dedicated to the wine and food industry, one of the most thriving sectors in Italy, as confirmed by the development of the Porta Nuova Food District in Piazza Gae Aulenti.

Source: Milano Finanza

Translator: Cristina Ambrosi