Hotel Europa in Sanremo, one of the many buildings of historical tourism still without revival.
From the hotel to the shooting range to the Astoria, up to Europe and the Festival. Operations bogged down between bureaucracy and construction sites on stand-by.
Sanremo – In the lighthouse city of tourism in the Riviera dei Fiori sare more and more old hotels, and also new tourism projects, mired in the sands of bureaucracy, of snail-restorations or in the financial shackles. If some operations were completed in record time, such as that of the Miramare bought and restored in a few months between 2017 and 2018, others tend to stagnate. Among these is the new e ambitious hotel, wellness center and restaurant that should be built in the place of the former shooting range.
Bought 9 years ago by the Municipality for 5 million euros from OIT (owner of the Villaggio dei Fiori campsite), still today in its place there is only a chasm with lots of exhumed bunkers after the demolition of the old building and the excavation of the embankment where they once took place shooting competitions. According to the latest information available, the latest variants are being investigated and perhaps finalized.
The city awaits the go-ahead: the operation, which is headed by the same family business group that promoted and awarded the Green Park (camper area with redevelopment of the whole area) could really change the face of the western offshoot of Sanremo coast and create employment opportunities.
Instead, it is a real “black hole” the case ofex Hotel Astoria West End: a luxurious belle époque hotel that became an ugly scar for the La Foce district afterwards the bankruptcy of the company which had acquired it in 2003 (Logam of Turin) and the simultaneous sinking of the restructuring operation that had already started.
The skeleton of thehistory, auctioned by an Intesa Sanpaolo holding company for 7 million, is again on sale. In the park, the excavation of the parking lot fills with stagnant water and does not fail to trigger protests in the neighborhood.
The construction site ofHotel Europa, instead, bought by a company owned by the entrepreneur Walter Lagorio in 2018, it has stopped since the beginning of the pandemic but should start again shortly. Ownership is determined to move forward, despite some bureaucratic obstacle.
“There is already the ok from the reinforced concrete from the Province and for the building permit it should be a matter of days – replies the entrepreneur – since the changes provide for an overturning of the structure “. The height will not change but the building will certainly have another face. Then there is one of the hotels in “stand by” the Festival of via XX Settembre. The renovation was started in 2018 by an entrepreneur from Salerno (known in Sanremo) with the aim of reviving the structure and obtaining the fourth star. But the construction site is still open.
Finally, a real case had erupted around years ago to the former Parco Hotel Corso Mazzini, complete with a dispute that ended in justice between tenants and property, which in the end was right. Since then, however, the hotel has held the shutters closed.
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