Montelungo, by 2020, the “hall of residence” – The Day

Bergamo, July 21, 2016 – Another piece of Bergamo who returns to life after two decades of neglect. And another space conquered by the University , which expands more in the urban fabric. The former barracks Montelungo and Colleoni will be retrieved. The Montelungo will become a student , such as for students and professors rooms (there will be over 300 seats) and will host the second university sports center after the one in Dalmine. The Colleoni former barracks will house a ppartamenti, shops, and production activities a high technological content. It will also be converted into a parking on two levels, and the courtyard to the two former barracks, demolished the most dilapidated buildings, will be transformed into a park that will in turn connected with Marenzi the park and the park Suardi, in the latter case via a pedestrian underpass.

this is a summary of the news of the agreement that after the former Riuniti, will give a new look to this corner of the city . The whole operation will cost, for the public part (ie the former Montelungo) of about 6 million euro. The lines of the entire urban planning and real estate transaction whose protagonists were the Municipality, Cassa Depositi e owner of the building complex loans (through its property management company) and the University, was outlined yesterday, in ‘ assembly hall of the university, by the Mayor Giorgio Gori, the Councillor for Urban Planning, Francesco Valesini and the rector Remo Morzenti Pellegrini. At the beginning of 2017 it will be demolished the body of the most dilapidated factory and unpresentable. Then the yards to get to the 2020 to total renovation of the complex. The Gori Mayor and Alderman Valesini trust that the Deposits and Loans Fund, which will remain the owner of the buildings Colleoni former barracks, is equally rapid in the works for you both for the public part (the City and University) for both the private part (deposits and loans Fund, or other entity that will implement the building operation), is the simultaneous arrivals at the finish line . The former barracks Montelungo will be transferred free of charge by the CDP to the municipality who then move to university property. Its value has been determined by a survey of the Agency’s revenue in three million and 950 thousand euro.

The deal commits the coffers of the university for about 30 million euro. The project bears the signature of the Barozzi-Veiga study. The rector Morzenti Pellegrini, commented: “It is an important step for the University, the design Montelungo is not only planning, but also Historical , a challenging and forward-looking project that will lead to the birth of a campus spread in the city and for the city . ” The mayor Giorgio Gori – he called the positive method of work and stressed the importance of “animating different places of the city, with revitalizing effects.