When the administration migrates to a beautiful Art Deco building
The days of the old and gray administrative city of the Compans-Cafarelli district in Toulouse are numbered. The prefect of Haute-Garonne, Etienne Guyot, unveiled this Tuesday the images of what he calls the new “village of state services”. In the fall of 2024, 1,642 civil servants and no less than 12 administrations – environment, labor for example – will take up residence at the foot of the Jolimont hill, in the future Guillaumet district on land vacated for a long time now by the Ministry of Defence.
The building permit for this 89 million euro project must be filed in June. It will include the construction of two new four-storey buildings. But it will above all have the originality of preserving the area’s flagship building: the Art Deco building from the 1930s which once housed the Ensica engineering school. The Le Maresquier building, whose total or partial destruction had been mentioned at the start, will finally be “fully restored” and will house the reception – unique, for all services – of users.
The site should open to the public by the end of 2024. As for the current buildings of Compans, “everything remains open” on their future.