San Siro will be purchased by Milan and Inter for roughly €200M following a dramatic vote by the City Council, which ended with 24 in favor and 20 against. Neither the ruling coalition nor the opposition was compact in their midst, La Repubblica informs.

The Mayor Giuseppe Sala is a big proponent of the plan, but not all his allies are on the same page. The deliberation wouldn’t have passed without some help from across the aisle. Forza Italia, the party founded by former Rossoneri owner Silvio Berlusconi, abstained. So did other members of the local government who were on the fence.

The body approved some ancillary amendments to the project, but nothing drastic. Milan and Inter recently hired architects Norman Foster and David Manica to build the new San Siro. They have contributed to the master plans for the Wembley Stadium area, Apple Park in Cupertino, Beijing’s and Hong Kong’s airports, and the Millennium Bridge in London.

According to Corriere della Sera, the new arena will be initially erected near the current one. It will have 71.5k seats. The whole blueprint will be unveiled at a later date. It’ll comprise office buildings, restaurants, shops, hotels, and parking spaces, as well as an 80k square meter green area that will be returned to the City.

The Giuseppe Meazza will be torn down almost entirely when the new one is ready, with 10 percent of it possibly being part of a museum. The timetable forecasts to complete the construction in 2031, in time for the Euro that Italy and Turkey will host. The project cleared the biggest hurdle, but will likely face some appeals.

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