Napoli stadium plan scrapped as Zes pulls out, Manfredi wins | OneFootball

The curtain falls, once again, on the project for Napoli’s new stadium in Poggioreale. What for months seemed like a concrete possibility now reveals itself as yet another chapter in an endless saga, made up of announcements, institutional clashes, and illusions destined to fade away.

Napoli Stadium in Poggioreale: definitive stop, the ZES suspends the project and Manfredi claims victory

The ZES (Special Economic Zone) has officially suspended the services conference on the feasibility project, marking a point of no return.

The ZES decision: project frozen

This was reported by Repubblica Napoli, which reconstructed the formal steps of the decision. The suspension was officially communicated yesterday: the sole person responsible for the procedure, engineer Salvatore Puca, responded to the observations raised by the Municipality during the meeting on November 18, clarifying the nature of the services conference, defined as preliminary and not decisive.

The consequence is clear: the procedure is suspended and, as things stand, no further meetings are planned. In the absence of substantial changes to the project presented by Napoli, everything will remain at a standstill.

Structural issues and the Caramanico knot

Beyond the already well-known concerns regarding the management of parking lots, which would remain unused for most of the week, the real decisive factor concerns the Caramanico market area.

The minutes from November 18 reveal a fact that is hard to overcome: in the preliminary project, the presence of about 500 companies operating within the market was not adequately considered. This is a significant planning gap, which weighed decisively on the overall evaluation and makes the operation hardly compatible with the current urban and productive structure of the area.

Manfredi-De Laurentiis: a duel that never really began

From a political-institutional standpoint, the outcome is anything but surprising. In the confrontation between Mayor Gaetano Manfredi and Aurelio De Laurentiis, there was never a real contest. As expected by those familiar with administrative mechanisms and power dynamics, the Municipality’s line prevailed smoothly.

The idea of a Napoli-owned stadium in Poggioreale thus fades away, without any twists, confirming that many of the critical issues were evident from the very beginning.

The future of Napoli still passes through the Maradona

Now, De Laurentiis is left with only one certainty: the Diego Armando Maradona stadium. He will have to make do with it, because the Poggioreale option is now off the table.

So this “little theater” also comes to a close, yet another in the long saga of Napoli’s new stadium. A story that continues to fascinate for its longevity, but which, once again, produces no ending different from the past. The present says stop, and the future, at least for now, remains anchored to the Maradona.

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