"MILAN - Not far from the new Olympic Village - to be repurposed as student housing after this month's Winter Games - a skyline-altering office tower reminiscent of a futuristic lighthouse is nearing completion. Milanese fashion house Prada is involved in transforming a railway yard eyesore into an urban park with stores, offices and apartment towers. Milan's trendy Porta Romana district is peppered with recently built condominiums and blinged-out palazzos with penthouses costing millions."
"The Olympics may be intended to bring nations together, but advocates in Milan say the Games risk driving the city apart, as Olympic construction and ancillary projects have accelerated the relentless gentrification in Porta Romana, deepening social divisions and widening income disparities. "The legacy of the Olympics will be exclusion," Lorenzo Faggi, an activist and member of the Unsustainable Olympic Committee, a group opposing the Winter Games, said as he surveyed a vast construction site near the Olympic Village."
A skyline-altering office tower near the Olympic Village is nearing completion and the village will be repurposed as student housing after the Winter Games. Prada is transforming a railway yard into an urban park with stores, offices and apartment towers. Porta Romana now features recently built condominiums and expensive palazzos with multimillion-euro penthouses. Olympic construction and ancillary projects have accelerated gentrification in Porta Romana, deepened social divisions and widened income disparities. Prior Games produced evictions, underused venues and environmental controversies. The Milan Cortina Games span an area three times the size of Delaware, with venues in urban highways and distant Alpine slopes.
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