Two young entrepreneurs of 28 years old have just bought the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament to revive this Castres heritage left abandoned since 2009.
It was impossible for them to miss it. Quentin Doulcier and Steven Veiller, two young 28-year-old neo-Castres, at the head of Get Immobilier, a very successful high-yield rental investment consultancy firm, have just bought the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament located in the back alley from avenue Charles-de-Gaulle in Castres. These entrepreneurs, who turn everything they touch into gold, want to revive this derelict building, desecrated in 2012 (the altar and religious symbols have been removed) after the departure in 2009 of the last sisters of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament which occupied the neighboring convent since transformed into apartments by a promoter. The chapel had also found a buyer in 2012. But the various projects never came to fruition and he put it up for sale a few months ago. “We had already visited it 2 years ago and we repositioned ourselves during the first confinement in March and we signed on January 15”, confide the two friends who met at the high school in Castelnaudary before doing each careers on their side in the building industry, one as a site manager and the other as a works supervisor, and to meet together to set up their company together in 2017 in Revel, which they relocated in 2018 to Castres. City they fell in love with and where they both live today. At the same time as managing Get Immobilier, which employs 10 people and supports more than 5,000 clients throughout France, and managing several e-commerce sites, they themselves invest personally, individually or together, in real estate. “We are looking for beautiful buildings with character, they explain. And now that we live in Castres, we are sensitive to its heritage. And we said to ourselves that we had no choice but to take this chapel so as not to do anything there “. Because the two investors want to keep this 300 m2 neo-Gothic chapel intact, built in 1890. “We hardly touch anything”. Their idea is to make it an event venue more dedicated to companies for seminars, awards or receptions. “We often organize events and it is difficult to find rooms that can accommodate 200 or 300 people here”, explain the two Castres who also evoke the possibility of hosting cultural events such as exhibitions. “We made an appointment with the mayor who validated our project,” confided the two friends who immediately saw the potential of the 15 m high building and its terrace with a breathtaking view of the Mail garden. “We bought on the spur of the moment and then thought about the project. We like to challenge ourselves and have problems to solve”, explain Quentin Doulcier and Steven Veiller, who give themselves a year to open the place while the works. Because the chapel needs refreshment, to be equipped with toilets and a kitchen in one of the adjacent rooms but above all has no electricity or water and is not connected to the network. sanitation. “We are going to take the time to do things well and to enhance the interior of the building with a beautiful decoration and a play of light, they say. In any case, with the current health crisis, we have time.”
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