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MARINA PLANNING & DESIGN Porto di Ventimiglio will have extensive landside facilities. provided a masterplan for urban/ environmental procedures, which was presented to the municipality in April 2021. MDC, advisor to the BDF investment fund managed by Narmia SGR, will deliver €200 million in urban and residential developments around the marina, which was officially inaugurated in July last year. Marina Cala del Forte sits within the Ports de Monaco group (a joint-stock company 100% owned by the state of Monaco) and is owned by the Société Monégasque Internationale Portuaire, created in 2016 to find ways to provide berths close to Monaco’s fully subscribed marinas. The work covers an area of 5.7ha (14 acres) and, like the marina, is directed at creating a high level tourist/ accommodation destination of benefit to the entire city. The main focus will be on the Borgo del Forte area, which will have 70 branded apartments and a 5-star hotel that will manage a further 60. La Roca restaurant, west of the residential complex, and the former Automobile Club Italia (ACI) building, will be transformed into a Club Italia food and beverage outlet. The developers will build a campus known as Borgo del Forte set back behind the Nervia waterway. This will comprise an international school, with space for events, tennis courts, an Olympic sized swimming pool and accommodation for students, athletes and teachers. Founded in 2020, MDC provides consultancy and property management services for destinations related to Mediterranean marinas. Key players involved include the Dutch tycoon Rob Thielen, founder of the Waterland Private Equity Investments Group and special advisor to MDC. MDC is also currently working with the Pisa in Progress property fund on an urban regeneration masterplan for areas around the tourist port. The project aims to create a high-level tourist destination, bring economic growth to the area and take advantage of the city’s global connection via the Galileo Galilei International Airport. The areas of work will cover 16ha (39.5 acres) along the delta of the River Arno and will integrate well with the tourist port. It will enrich the urban fabric of Marina di Pisa with greenery, renovated buildings and new structures. “The Ventimiglia project – in a border city – aims to redefine the positioning of a stretch of coastline that is popular with tourists,” Cavalli explains. He says that the new marina has created opportunities to rethink development of areas not just connected to the marina but in the underdeveloped local urban catchment. “The value generated will thus be redistributed not only for strictly tourist purposes but to serve the collective interests of the city more generally,” he adds. “The project will actually be an economic and social accelerator as the impact on the local economy is expected to be three to five times greater than the investment in addition to generating long term value.” The areas involved and the plans for each are very different but are all guided by three fundamental principles of sustainability: environment, economy and social sphere. Borgo del Forte, built behind the marina, will consolidate the land with the water and boost tourist accommodation. It will increase the service offering to marina users while also boosting the city’s tourism offering. Construction of this new residential/ reception area will be accompanied by the restoration of the former Campasso railway station as well as the education and social functions of the Borgo del Forte campus. All will be achieved by enhancing existing buildings, especially those in disuse, and adding just two new buildings, green public spaces and community sports facilities. MDC’s general programme also provides for other intervention in the existing urban area so as to start a process of general redevelopment of the city’s fabric and facilities. To facilitate the reconciliation and integration of new port infrastructure with the rest of the city, Borgo del Forte will complete regeneration of the urban waterfront to the west. A mechanised walkway will connect the latter and the marina with the old city on the hill behind. The sports and landscaped areas will close the circle of recreational spaces offered in the city’s eastern section, interacting with the Nervia river and with cycle paths beside the waterway and along the coast.” Livorno Porta a Mare and IDG Livorno Porta a Mare in the Porto Mediceo area of Livorno in Tuscany covers an area of 4.5ha (11 acres) and will incorporate residential and hospitality buildings. The project is funded by IGD SiiQ, one of the first Italian groups in the property retail sector to be listed on the Euronext STAR Milan segment of the Italian Stock Exchange. “The proposal for a complete transformation of the Porto Medicco area in Livorno stems from a joint public and private interest and the determination of the project promoter IDG,” Cavalli says. “It is being developed around a stretch of water that will host the Porta a Mare marina.” www.marinaworld.com – January/February 2022 23
