All six district city halls in Bucharest have announced major investments in green spaces over the past few years. Some construction sites are already 70% complete. Others exist, quite literally, only on paper — or worse, stuck in a legal dispute that's dragged on for years. We checked official statements from city halls and specialized local press to see where each project actually stands.

District 6: the undisputed leader

District 6 is, without question, the district with the most advanced green construction site in the city. Lacul Morii Island — the first phase of the future linear park — has reached 70% completion, with finishing estimated for the end of July 2026, according to statements from interim mayor Paul Moldovan. Work began in February 2025 and includes a beach, floating islands, playgrounds, and the planting of nearly 400 new trees.

The second phase, the linear park itself, is already under construction: a 4-kilometer promenade along the lake's northern shore, between Șoseaua Virtuții and the town of Chiajna, covering 14 hectares. Completion is estimated for 2027, and the total cost of the entire project (island + linear park) comes to roughly 45 million euros. Once finished, it will become the largest newly built park in Bucharest since 1989, surpassing Parcul Liniei.

Status: underway, with real timelines.

District 1: a patchwork of different stages

Here things are uneven. For Ocna Sibiului Park — where sports fields are planned — the city hall has already signed an execution contract. For Regina Maria, Brătianu, and Henri Coandă parks, on the other hand, we're still at the procurement stage for design and execution — that is, the phase that precedes any actual construction.

Henri Coandă Park is in fact a brand-new project: over 50,000 square meters, with three thematic zones (sports, relaxation, a pet area), promised following a public consultation. For Bazilescu Park, only a technical documentation procurement is underway, and for Kiseleff Park, the city hall is running — together with the Order of Architects — an international design competition, meaning there isn't yet a concrete execution project at all.

Status: one project with a signed contract; the rest still in early-stage public procurement.

District 2: contracts awarded long ago, sites worth a follow-up visit

District 2 has cleared the bureaucratic hurdles for Plumbuita Park, the largest green space in the district at over 20 hectares. The renovation contract, worth more than 30 million lei including VAT (nearly 6.2 million euros), was awarded back in March 2024, with a 17-month execution deadline. The city hall also separately managed to buy back 4 hectares of privately owned land to make the park whole again.

The project includes new playgrounds, a chess area, sports fields, a calisthenics zone, a skate park, and an ecological beach on the shore of Lake Plumbuita.

Status: contract awarded back in 2024, but with no recent official confirmation of physical progress on site in 2026 — a good candidate for an on-the-ground revisit.

District 4: the only project already delivered and expanded

Tudor Arghezi Park, on Bulevardul Metalurgiei, is the clearest success story in the entire city: opened in 2023, it received a 4-hectare expansion starting in the fall of 2025, doubling its size (from 4 to 8 hectares). The work, estimated at 10 million euros, includes over 1,000 new trees, three playgrounds (over 6,000 square meters), and pedestrian paths. According to statements from mayor Daniel Băluță, the estimated duration is 18-24 months from the start of work.

Status: the only project with a delivered phase and an officially confirmed expansion actually on the ground.

District 5: small parks delivered quickly, plus one big project just starting out

District 5 has bet on two speeds. On one hand, quick, targeted renovations: Ioniță Cegan and Ion Urdăreanu parks in the Panduri area got new rubberized flooring, modern play equipment, and renovated green areas, while Mișcă Petre Park entered renovation in May 2026, just months after residents' complaints.

On the other hand, the district's flagship project is Parcul Șinei, a linear park built on a former railway lot abandoned for over 35 years, between the Cotroceni and Progresul stations, modeled after Parcul Liniei in District 6. Site clean-up work began in April 2025, and the feasibility study was put to a vote in the Local Council in February 2026 — an administrative milestone, not completion.

Status: small projects already delivered or underway; the big project (Parcul Șinei) is still at the feasibility-study stage.

District 3: the most questionable case — the Calea Vitan lot

This is where things become "paper-only" in the worst sense. A 4.2-hectare lot on Calea Vitan was, at one point, designated for a park through a Bucharest General Council (CGMB) decision from 2021-2023. District 3's city hall recently (May 2026) requested that the land be returned to its own administration, after initially losing a lawsuit over it. The Local Council approved the move at the end of May 2026, with a USR-proposed amendment: if the park isn't built within 15 months of the handover, the land automatically reverts to the Bucharest City Hall.

In practice, there's no construction site yet, no execution contract — just a political promise tied to a lot with a contentious legal history. It's exactly the kind of project that deserves ongoing monitoring, not a victory lap.

Status: paper-only, with a deadline imposed via amendment — worth watching whether it holds.

So what's the takeaway? Bucharest is currently promising dozens of hectares of new green space — but the gap between "announced project" and "actual construction site" remains, as usual, a matter of which district you're in.