Everything has been at a standstill for over a year. And the prospects are not encouraging. Faced with a stalemate situation that has dragged on for too long, the administration has started the procedures to reach the contractual termination. Palazzo San Giorgio “takes back” the Miramare property. It was 2021 when the Municipality entrusted the structure to the company which was then banned. But that of Miramare is a story dotted with sad and complicated events. First the choice of the centre-right administration to put the historic property (covered by restrictions) up for sale, then the decision of the then prefectural commission to have it included among the assets for institutional use, then the announcement to make the Miramare a hotel again. In the midst of the investigation that had overwhelmed the Falcomatà administration. But the fact is that the structure symbolizing the city’s tourist vocation has remained closed for years now while Reggio “finally” intercepts visitor flows. The first step to take is the contractual termination.
An operation which had already taken its first steps in June, now, months later, the determination to proceed in this direction is increasingly motivated. But the technical times on the one hand and the slowness of the bureaucracy on the other have prolonged the paralysis.
The idea of closing the page with the company that won the tender for carrying out the adaptation and management works on the property now seems like something more than a hypothesis. We have been living in a situation of immobility for a long time, too long. The project to reopen the property crystallized after the redevelopment works on the external part. The company that was awarded the management following the interdiction was entrusted to the judicial administration of the Court which, thanks to the opportunity of the bonuses, took steps to carry out the work on the facade. But we also need to proceed with the renovation of the interior. High cost path, which the company did not pursue. And so the Palazzo San Giorgio legal office wrote, without receiving a response (the counterarguments did not arrive in useful terms) to the company to request and ask for explanations regarding the heavy delays.