How VDNKh keeps trying to destroy the stadium.
Yesterday again there was a closed meeting of the VDNKh CP leadership with the participation of Sergei Shugorov with a narrow circle of interlocutors.
This time, in addition to Natalia Voronova from the All-Russian Athletics Federation, members of the media were present - former soccer player Dmitry Bolikin and former Duma deputy Maxim Shingerkin, ready to justify the destruction of the field and skating rink for the construction of a commercial facility.
A classic scenario of behind-the-scenes pressure on residents.
Main results of the meeting:
1 VDNKh is trying in every way to grab a plot of land to build a commercial facility.
We have already presented the third version of the "no capital" construction of a commercial cluster with 6 mini soccer fields. The racket center is being moved to the site of a former skatepark.
It is clear that the sports cluster itself is not so important to the officials, as it is necessary to quickly seize by any means the entire plot of land on which the publicly accessible and popular Ostankino Stadium is located.
Seeing the residents' outrage, they decided to change the concept - but it still eliminates the full-size accessible soccer field and outdoor ice rink!
2 Cancellation of a full-fledged athletics area for running and race walking by offering 3 tracks.
Is it really endorsed by the Athletics Federation?
And also the elimination of the existing sports infrastructure for the establishment of a commercial facility on this site, which will "maintain its sporting function", but certainly not for everyone and certainly without a full-sized soccer field, an outdoor ice skating rink, a full track for running and walking in a race.
3 The main result of all this is that the management of VDNKh openly acts in the interests of the investors of this commercial facility, and not of the tax-paying citizens.
VDNKh does not have the task of developing mass sports - they should take the park site for commercial development by any means.