According tot the latest plans, this place should look like this:
instead, it looks like this:
Brief history:
In 80’s the plans for this site inclulded a mamouth cultural centre and the new Bucharest Opera. But after the foundation has been laid, the construction was halted.
The site was abandoned, until 2005 a large real estate developer came with a new project to convert the site.
Info from their web-site:
“The Esplanada Project aims the functional conversion of the site bordered by Unirii Avenue, Nerva Traian Street, Octavian Goga Avenue and Mircea Voda Avenue, on a surface of 107,140 m2 and with a direct investment of 1 billion Euro and with a related investment of 2 to 3 billion Euro. Esplanada will provide shopping, living, working and leisure functions integrated into a mixed-use urban community envisaged within a city environment of streets, plazas and gardens. Esplanada City Center will offer a unique cultural centre in Romania involving a national concert hall and a multifunctional cultural space. For this project implementation, the public private partnership seemed as the ideal financing option. The project will create thousands of construction jobs and thousands of full time employment opportunities. The Esplanada will be the new symbol of Bucharest and Romania’s future as a new city center, a place of life, 24 hours per day.”
For various reasons (financial crisis, owners reclaiming the land, etc.) the project has been halted.
Nowadays, you can see lots of garbage, poor people hammering at the old foundations in order to get the rebars and sell them as scrap iron, homeless people, and shady characters doing their business.
Now to our “puzzle”:
Nice and easy - you don’t need to visit the site :)
The cache is hidden at 138 m from the initial coordinates. Bearing 330°.
Side note:
This cache is part of the mystery "PM5-The Grand Design".
The logbook contains a part of the password needed to decrypt the text.