Metro, transfigured halls, “crane district”: 5 clearly visible construction sites are redefining Toulouse
By David Saint-Sernin
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You are students or new residents and you arrive in Toulouse this fall. Welcome to the city of eternal labors. However, some are more important than others. here are the five construction sites, clearly visible, which redraw Toulouse.
The street of Metz
the rue de Metz construction site continue. Since August 29, buses have been diverted from the street where work is continuing on the network.
Here it is the largest avenue in Toulouse still open to traffic which will be transformed by 2025.
Rue de Metz will then be closed to most cars thanks to the installation of two access terminals, at the entrance and exit of this section of the street. Terminals that allow access to the vehicles of local residents and delivery people while only the free shuttles from the city center circulate on this axis, unlike the Tisséo buses.
A gaping hole in the city center
It’s a visible gaping hole in downtown Toulouse. In this new school year, motorists, cyclists and pedestrians who circulate a stone’s throw from Jean-Jaurès, could not miss it.
Started in January 2022, the construction site literally gutted the alignment of buildings located rue Labéda on one side, and boulevard Carnot on the other.
From now on completely virgin, the ground will not remain in the state. Another phase of the project, which will stretch until 2024, will start.
A building of four levels must indeed see the light of day under the aegis of the Toulouse real estate company Heritage case.
The construction site of the 3e underground line
Network work is continuing and civil engineering work should indeed begin at the end of 2022 for the largest construction site in Toulouse and its conurbation: construction of the tunnel and viaduct, underground and aerial stations and ancillary emergency access structures .
According to Tisséo’s timetable, the commissioning of the third metro line will take place at the end of the year 2028.
The “grue district” in the south-east of Toulouse
This is the “grue district” in Toulouse. Several months they are several to rise in a tight perimeter, not far from the ring road.
And beyond the presence of these few cranes, the entire Malepère district is being transformed from top to bottom at the crossroads of three municipalities: Toulouse, Labège and Saint-Orens.
Along the major highways, imposing residences are being built when they have not already been completed. The presence of panels announces other real estate projects to come. A little further on, earthworks are in progress.
The first achievements will now be delivered between 2022 and 2024. Then four other phases will follow one another until 2038-2040.
In total, 6,500 homes will be built over a little over fifteen years, the equivalent of a large town in Haute-Garonne.
New district at the foot of Jolimont
It is a large-scale and long-term project, visible when you take line A of the metro and its viaduct.
At the foot of the Jolimont hill, an entire district is emerging from the ground on the site of the former Toulouse Aeronautical Test Center (CEAT), over ten hectares.
1200 housing units should see the light of day there as well as numerous facilities: third place, urban farm, shops, gym, dojo… The first deliveries were to take place in the fourth quarter of 2022 and then extend until 2025.
A skeleton building
This is one of the biggest projects currently being carried out in the city. The Cartoucherie district in Toulouse, the old industrial halls which remained linked to military armament until 2005, are undergoing a transformation.
The construction site started in 2021. And in 2023, this industrial vestige “will become the largest third place in France” according to one of its instigators, Gilles Jumaire, from the Cosmopolis collective which is carrying out the project.
The construction site will continue for many months if the schedule is kept, the new hybrid place will open in September 2023.
The project will offer a large gourmet hall of 3,000 m² with 1,500 seats and 30 stands named for local restaurateurs, but also a multimedia school, a dance school, an early childhood area, a new kind of green space. baptized “urban jungle”, a climbing pole, a concierge, a bookstore and offices for companies.
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