Ex-Resto U in Toulouse: what happens to the Compagnie de Phalsbourg building permit?
The TFC plans to buy the former Resto U du Ramier, in Toulouse. Despite a building permit granted to the Compagnie de Phalsbourg. What validity for this urban planning document providing for a cultural center on the site and for the promise of sale signed between the Crous and the promoter of the Tour Occitanie?
The TFC recently announced that it had acquired, from the Crous, the former university restaurant Daniel-Faucher on the island of Ramier, closed for 21 years, to make it its performance center, near of the Stadium and its training grounds. The football club says it has won a call for tenders organized by the Crous, which still owns the building labeled “exceptional monument” of the 20th century.e century by the Drac.
Problem: this building, degraded and requiring major restoration, was promised so far to the Compagnie de Phalsbourg, a major property developer, owner of many shopping centers in France, also chosen by the real estate subsidiary of the SNCF for the Tour project Occitanie, on the site of the former sorting center at Matabiau station in Toulouse.
“Promise of sale and valid building permit”
When the announcement of the possible takeover of the site by the TFC, Eric Paillot, associate director in charge of the development of the Cie de Phalsbourg, expressed his astonishment to us: “You are teaching me that! We are all the more surprised that we have signed a promise of sale with the Crous and obtained a valid building permit and purged of all recourse on this site”. The leader of the company founded and paid by Philippe Journo, its sole shareholder, did not specify the possible legal consequences that he could give to this imbroglio.
We were unable to reach the Crous to find out why it had changed its mind about the Compagnie de Phalsbourg. Has the public establishment in charge of university and school works had enough of waiting for the promoter to exercise its option? Did he bring into play a suspensive clause of the sales agreement signed with Cie de Phalsbourg, which theoretically undertakes to be the seller and buyer who are signatories of the said sales agreement?
The building permit for the Tour Occitanie suspended from the judgment of the Council of State
On the side of the Capitol, it is recalled that a merchant or a promoter can request, and obtain, a building permit for a property which he does not yet own, unlike an individual. Thus, the Cie de Phalsbourg obtained a building permit for its project of “cultural and popular foundation” on the island of Ramier, which was to fit into the metropolitan project of Grand Parc Garonne. A license “valid and purged of any legal recourse”, according to Eric Paillot. This is not the case, on the other hand, of the building permit obtained by the same Cie de Phalsbourg for the Tour Occitanie, against which an appeal before the Council of State is still awaiting judgment.