To identify a new allocation for the area of the ex-railway station Torino-Ceres, in order to combine the commercial attraction of Porta Palazzo with cultural and recreational initiatives, the Progetto Porta Palazzo Committee has promoted a Community Planning where the point of view of citizens and opinions from some economics and cultural operators from the neighbour and the town, could be transformed in a detailed plan of the new allocations.
The project has, afterwards, followed two steps:

1. Mission at London (October 1999) of a group composed by administrators and technicians of The Gate Project, in order to verify, through the analysis of similar experiences achieved in England, the potentiality and the method for the intervention on the area of the ex railway station.
2. Production of a pre-feasibility Study for the ex railway station Torino-Ceres, entrusted to the Methodological Unit of The Gate Project SOFTECH. The Study identified the area specifically functions, following the citizens' requirements and the indications of operators interested in investing in different strategically domains as: Cultural-didactic domain, Gastronomic-entertainment domain, Commerce and sale.

• 12-16th June 1998 Community Planning "Fuori Orario" October 2001 Delivery of the pre-feasibility Study by SOFTECH srl
• Total costs for the functional restoration of the area as estimated by the pre-feasibility Study: €7.298.142
• Comitato Progetto Porta Palazzo (Promoter) SINATECH srl (pre-feasibility Study)