Caserne Miramont
property details
for a Hub House co-operative coliving project

Environment ✧ river valleys, scrub woods, rolling agricultural; paths start 2 mins away

Services ✧ all at door; nice town 15mins scoot/bike +25mins train (last 11:30pm)

Access ✧ station 10mins bus/bike; Toulouse 2h45, Paris 6h30 changing or direct nightrain; Rodez airport (seasonal for UK/Brussels) 30mins drive

Dedicated units for full-time residence.

Area ✧ not an ideal situation as nature is pleasant but not notable, and the town is only adequate with no public spaces, yet potentially balances as a larger very attractive town is close plus there's others and opportunities to get a bit further afield for exploring
✦ alternate route, leave Toulouse 6pm, change Villefranche immediate bus 9pm arrival
✦ several fairly tame walks, including circuits over 3h to the river; good for biking but better with half by train; can climb 400m from door; kayaking/riding 35mins
✦ 10mins walk to a huge public greenspace with lake covering a rehabilitated open pit mine easily gives a 1h30 walk climbing 200m; tennis courts close; several recent town centre improvements, there's also a massive (4,000m2) building hosting events, but no town square(!)
✦ small streetart festival which could potentially be expanded with some support (i.e. hosting artists)
✦ a package free local food shop, several restaurants and an organic microbrewery but not much else otherwise, have to go to the towns, of which theres 3 in 30–40mins including by bus
✦ the very nice local town of Figeac is practically a 45min journey thus most likely by car in 30mins, in this respect properties in Cransac have the train station very close making all the towns much easier (bit smaller with better gardens)
✦ station 10mins bike/scoot which may be required as local bus is not well coordinated without a 30min+ wait, it's a 5min drive so pickups even regularly wouldn't be an issue and a minivan would be essential for exploring; however regional busses to other towns (a little further) are from door
✦ busses to Villefranche (1h; last 7pm, 9pm Sundays) and Rodez (40mins; last 6:30pm) both 40mins drive
✦ Paris nightrain arrives 6am, return 11:30pmom €40;
✦ the climate is subject to a lot of rain, only diminishing somewhat during the summer, on the plus side this means the regions is always green, but does mean the sunny days need to be taken advantage of; seasonality would likely be 3-3-6; streetview (Jan) demonstrates that the garden is pleasant all year with good sunny days though when the sun isn't out is pretty drab (Mar) thus indoor and covered outdoor spaces would play a very important role

Property ✧ private sale
✦ had a small non-destructive fire resulting in electric meters being removed and the building being classed as insalubrious, would apparently only require the wiring to be brought up to standards
✦ actually the old fire station sold ~2017 for 100k (valued 140k) (presumably originally included the engine garages also opposite which if acquired would add 250m2 with an awesome south facing basement having huge open front perfect for community coworking-cafe space plus 200m2 land below; and the office section with 2 more garages at #23 adjacent which has a section of the hill behind and may still be possible to acquire though was sold for 40k in 2022 following a court adjudication)

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south facing with top floors having view over the mine pit park, and there's no building opposite so all south windows face some greenery, as do all rear windows
✦ roof ok and building in generally solid condition
✦ all windows have double-glazed PVC windows with roller blinds thus no expense for refitting
✦ each floor has a small central recessed balcony some of which could be turned into sun rooms with plants

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composed of 8x 2-bed apartments with garages below, would thus require a new layout with better interconnection and space use
✦ for dedicated units, would probably split some into 2 smaller studios
✦ 130m2 at rear (shaded from sun) backing onto hillside, currently split into an alley and storage but could be fully covered over as cinema/storage plus a patio
✦ the ground floor garages could become a public coworking to function as a minihub
✦ includes parcel 471 on opposite side of road giving 4–5 parking space, plus 300m2 of south-facing hillside below leading to a lane where there's also other parcels that could be acquired

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the road the building is on whilst classified as a main road, only carries car traffic (lorries must take a different route) arriving to the town from a few places to the south-east