  50
years ago a tried and tested Verona came out of the war. It was time to think about rebuilding the city which, on an artistic and cultural plane, was already well-known throughout the world. The city’s economical engine with its industries, trade, agriculture and craftsmanship needed to be set into motion again. The economic part of the city had to be reorganised. A new city was needed, not unrelated to the old one but integrated to it in terms of specific functions. The
Consorzio ZAI was founded exactly at this point. In 1948 a pool of men from the
Chamber of Commerce, the Council and the Province had the foresight to set up what was to become
the first Agro-Industrial Zone (ZAI) in Italy. The activity began by dispossessing the farmers of their agricultural land in order to assign it to agricultural product processing and commercialisation companies. The consortium organisation then went on to activities of urbanisation, to the building of road and rail links and to the construction of the infrastructure.
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