The works of New
Mestalla they have been unemployed for eleven years and the mayor of Valencia transmitted this Wednesday to Indigo
Murthy that this situation must end and that it is “urgently necessary for the city to start the construction of the new stadium.”
In fact, he demanded two gestures to confirm that this is the intention of the club. On the one hand, that “they request all the procedures for the construction license of the new stadium” and, on the other, that they begin the works of the sports center that they must build for the city in the neighborhood where the new stadium stands.
In the policy of demand that has accelerated this summer, Ribó was not in favor of the Generalitat extending the terms of the 2015 Strategic Territorial Action, which established that the stadium should be finished in 2021 and the houses in the current Mestalla in 2025.
“His extension is difficult to justify, unless progress is made at the new stadium and at the Benicalap sports center. I am not in favor of perpetuating a situation that is bad for the sports entity but especially for the city of Valencia ”, he stressed.
“In any case, the decision to extend or not the ATE is a regional competence. My opinion is clear: not to make it last forever “, declared Ribó, who said that he must defend” the interests of the city of Valencia “and that” the public land that was allocated at the time for the new stadium has to be amortized “to the just like “the plot that continues to be municipal, where Valencia CF undertook to build a sports center.
The Nuevo Mestalla project has been on hold for more than 10 years