The downpayment will be used to fund the geotechnical investigations on the land and the expropriation, planning and design works for the future Justice Quarters, a real estate project that will be located on the Esplanada site, on Bucharest’s Unirii Boulevard.
The Justice Quarters is an older project on the government’s agenda, which is supposed to group several spaces intended for courts and prosecutor’s offices attached to courts, headquartered in capital Bucharest.
The Justice Quarters is expected to occupy half of the total surface area of the Esplanada land of over ten hectares. The remaining area will be used for several buildings the Bucharest City Hall plans to build. Half of the land located in the vicinity of the National Library of Romania would go to the Justice Ministry.
The Justice Quarters is expected to host 23 institutions: the Justice Ministry, the Bucharest Court of Appeals, the Bucharest Courthouse, the courthouses of Bucharest’s six districts, The Superior Council of Magistrates, The National School of Court Clerks, the National Institute of Magistracy, the Judicial Inspection, the Public Ministry, the National Anticorruption Department (DNA), the Anti-Terrorism Agency DIICOT, The Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Bucharest Courthouse and the prosecutor’s offices attached to Bucharest’s six district courthouses.