The roots of our family-owned business go back four generations in the Milan area. Our aim is to become a leading private real estate player in Italy by adopting a high–value strategy, capable of combining economic profitability with the best international standards of innovation and sustainability.

We develop and manage multi-sector real estate initiatives with a business model that integrates specific skills and competences into each project stage. We support medium- to long-term development projects, income-based real estate investments, and trade of assets.

“Our approach to creating value involves managing complexity. We directly coordinate in a collaborative way high-level activities, skills, and professionalism for both our investments and assets. We take the time and resources to build long-term relationships of trust with our customers, our business partners, and the communities in which we operate, acting responsibly and aligning ourselves every day with the diverse and new needs of our industry.”

We enhance the potential of the places, developing real estate projects over vast urban areas ex novo or transforming existing assets by converting them to new functions with planning, vision, and the desire to look further afield.

Being a developer means knowing how to coordinate and manage a complex system of operations, necessary to create unique places that can improve the quality of life and the individual work. A business model that is based on values rooted in the company’s family history, linked to the entrepreneurial adventure of the Cabassi group.

1900 - 1920Our founder Giuseppe Cabassi establishes a small company in Cavriago, a small town in the Italian province of Reggio Emilia. The company focuses on demolition, construction, and scrap recovery, and progressively expands its operations in the Emilia area.
1920 - 1940Giovanni, Giuseppe’s son, relocates to Milan, attracted by the city’s rapid urban development. In those years, in addition to expanding the demolition branch – including the demolition of Vecchia Zecca in Piazza San Babila and the the railway circle ramparts – the first excavation activities are started.
1940 - 1950Giovanni Cabassi's interests also extend to the real estate sector: in addition to managing his wife Luisa Farina's land assets, he anticipates the future development of the areas surrounding the city and acquires both agricultural hinterland funds and most of the quarries he uses (later transformed into building lots, following the rapid construction expansion of Milan).
1950 - 1970Luisa Farina and her eldest son Giuseppe assume strategic leadership of the family business. They progressively phase out secondary sector initiatives and acquire other land and properties in exchange.
1970 - 1980The family assets are divided between the brothers Giuseppe and Carlo Cabassi, each embarking on separate career paths. Carlo receives land and buildings in the North-North-West quarter and directs his attention towards the first and second belt municipalities, which offer ample building opportunities. This is where the development process of the real estate group that we now know as SIC begins.
1980 – 1995Carlo Cabassi Group, that would later become SIC, successfully completes several initiatives. These include the construction of the Borsa Merci, the La Viscontina residential project in Buccinasco, and the PL3-PL4 office buildings, designed by Mario Bellini.
1995 - 2000Edoarda Giannini Santa Maria, wife of Carlo Cabassi, assumes leadership of the group following her husband death. Under her guidance, SIC successfully completes the Orsa Maggiore and Minore projects in Assago and develops a substantial office portfolio in the South-West quarter.
2000 - 2010The property at Via Bisceglie 95 is built and fully leased to Dalkia, and Orsa Maggiore is sold.
2010 - 2020Torch and Monolith, office buildings, are built in the Lorenteggio area, in the western quadrant of the city of Milan.
2021 - PRESENTThe company concludes several major projects, including the redevelopment of an industrial and logistics building on Via Mattei in Peschiera Borromeo and the production building/offices Frame Building (2021), now home to the Avalon3 data centre.
1900 - 1920Our founder Giuseppe Cabassi establishes a small company in Cavriago, a small town in the Italian province of Reggio Emilia. The company focuses on demolition, construction, and scrap recovery, and progressively expands its operations in the Emilia area.
1920 - 1940Giovanni, Giuseppe’s son, relocates to Milan, attracted by the city’s rapid urban development. In those years, in addition to expanding the demolition branch – including the demolition of Vecchia Zecca in Piazza San Babila and the the railway circle ramparts – the first excavation activities are started.
1940 - 1950Giovanni Cabassi's interests also extend to the real estate sector: in addition to managing his wife Luisa Farina's land assets, he anticipates the future development of the areas surrounding the city and acquires both agricultural hinterland funds and most of the quarries he uses (later transformed into building lots, following the rapid construction expansion of Milan).
1950 - 1970Luisa Farina and her eldest son Giuseppe assume strategic leadership of the family business. They progressively phase out secondary sector initiatives and acquire other land and properties in exchange.
1970 - 1980The family assets are divided between the brothers Giuseppe and Carlo Cabassi, each embarking on separate career paths. Carlo receives land and buildings in the North-North-West quarter and directs his attention towards the first and second belt municipalities, which offer ample building opportunities. This is where the development process of the real estate group that we now know as SIC begins.
1980 – 1995Carlo Cabassi Group, that would later become SIC, successfully completes several initiatives. These include the construction of the Borsa Merci, the La Viscontina residential project in Buccinasco, and the PL3-PL4 office buildings, designed by Mario Bellini.
1995 - 2000Edoarda Giannini Santa Maria, wife of Carlo Cabassi, assumes leadership of the group following her husband death. Under her guidance, SIC successfully completes the Orsa Maggiore and Minore projects in Assago and develops a substantial office portfolio in the South-West quarter.
2000 - 2010The property at Via Bisceglie 95 is built and fully leased to Dalkia, and Orsa Maggiore is sold.
2010 - 2020Torch and Monolith, office buildings, are built in the Lorenteggio area, in the western quadrant of the city of Milan.
2021 - PRESENTThe company concludes several major projects, including the redevelopment of an industrial and logistics building on Via Mattei in Peschiera Borromeo and the production building/offices Frame Building (2021), now home to the Avalon3 data centre.

With more than a century of activity behind us, our deep-rooted knowledge of the region and nuances of the real estate sector help us to guarantee business partners and customers risk-free, high-quality, and dependable results at all levels. Our consolidated experience allows us to develop projects of various sizes and long-term relationships.