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Constanța

Constanța has no register of empty buildings. Its empty buildings are the heritage landmarks that public bodies and private owners have left to decay: the Great Synagogue (walls only, held by a State company), the History and Archaeology Museum (closed in 2024, collection still inside), the Mamaia summer theatre (abandoned since 2012) and the nursery Creșa 6 (unused for over 15 years, to be demolished). The council surtaxes neglected buildings by up to 500%, and ISU Dobrogea's seismic list counts 148 buildings in the municipality, most in the old centre.
Vacant office spaceNot yet measured
Empty buildings on record1536 confirmed
On the map402buildings and sites from 5 open sources
Homes potential—not in the economic model’s office data yet

Office figures: No office market figures for Constanța are published by the brokers we read (Cushman & Wakefield Echinox and iO Partners cover Bucharest and four regional cities, not Constanța). Map built 2026-10-09.

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The map

Every building a record says stands empty, one point per building: filter by type, size and how sure the evidence is, and open one to see who says so. “Opportunities” switches to the co-op lens: public land, conversion potential and projects already under way, every source as its own layer.

No register of empty buildings, no open list of the City's, the county's or the State's vacant buildings; the city's open-data presence is empty.

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0 empty buildings · colour = type, dark ring = confirmed

Check any building in Constanța: could it become homes, and could the EHC model work there?

Where to look first

Buildings with evidence that they stand empty — a second source agrees, a public record names them, or we have checked them — ranked by a score you can read: co-op scale, daylight depth, a station nearby, a zone that allows homes, affordable land and an open route in. Checked buildings carry their result; nobody has visited them on site yet. Leerstandsmelder reports join the list when they sit in a large non-residential building and a second source agrees.

PriorityBuildingFloor areaDepthStationConversion checkActions
33History and Archaeology Museum, Piața Ovidiu
Distressed or stranded (named)
7,076 m²36.5 m2,188 mC fit only
33Summer Theatre, Mamaia
Distressed or stranded (named)
3,430 m²52.9 m—C fit only

Districts where conversion makes sense

Where empty offices, the right zoning and a working neighbourhood come together — and what could go wrong.

A hand outlining a neighbourhood on a city map, with small houses drawn inside

Old town (the peninsula)

The old centre holds most of the municipality's 148 buildings in seismic classes, the Great Synagogue and the closed History and Archaeology Museum.

  • 148 of the county's 175 buildings in seismic classes are in the municipality (ISU Dobrogea, February 2023)
  • Great Synagogue: walls only, ten failed tenders in nine years
  • Museum building closed since 2024: five failed repair tenders

Risk: Heritage rules, a cliff-edge site and State owners whose tenders have repeatedly failed.

3 sources

Mamaia (north)

The seaside strip holds an abandoned theatre and a heritage hotel on sale by foreclosure.

  • Summer theatre abandoned since 2012
  • Grand Hotel Rex: €10.23 million starting price, county council waived pre-emption (March 2026)

Risk: Seasonal land values and monument protection make reuse costly.

2 sources

Owners and routes in

Who controls the space, and what a housing cooperative can actually do with them.

A door key on a doorstep with a drawn path leading to an open door
City agency

Primăria Constanța — Creșa 6 and the neglected-building tax

The City says Creșa 6 cannot be rehabilitated and will demolish it for parking; a co-op could ask instead for the 2,037 m² plot on a long lease. The council's yearly decisions on neglected buildings name the addresses, and owners under 400–500% are likeliest to sell.

2 sources

Signals to watch

Decisions, auctions and closures that change what becomes available, and when.

  1. 2026-03-05
    Rex Hotel foreclosure

    County council waives pre-emption; starting price €10.23 million.

    1 source
  2. 2025-02-07
    History and Archaeology Museum closed

    Closed since 2024, collection left inside; five tenders without success.

    1 source
  3. 2024-03-23
    City to demolish Creșa 6

    Unused for over 15 years; plot of 2,037 m² to become parking.

    1 source
  4. 2023-12-28
    Synagogue and summer theatre

    The Great Synagogue is walls only; the summer theatre has been abandoned since 2012.

    1 source
  5. 2023-02-11
    Seismic list

    148 of the county's 175 buildings in seismic classes are in the municipality.

    1 source

Sources and freshness

13 sources connected, 1 waiting for access. We only use data we may lawfully reuse; where a publisher blocks automated access we do not work around it — a person downloads it, or we ask for permission.

Show every source, its licence and when we last read it
SourceAccessRecordsStatusLicence
OpenStreetMap disused/abandoned tags and brownfields
OpenStreetMap contributors
Open API158Live
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
Rail, S-Bahn and U-Bahn stations (OpenStreetMap)
OpenStreetMap contributors
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
Building heights: GlobalBuildingAtlas (TU Munich)
Zhu, X. X., Chen, S., Zhang, F., Shi, Y., Wang, Y. (2025), Technical University of Munich
GlobalBuildingAtlas: an open global and complete dataset of building polygons, heights and LoD1 3D models. Earth System Science Data 17(12), 6647–6668, doi:10.5194/essd-17-6647-2025. Read from the Parquet copy on Source Cooperative. Satellite-derived heights (typically 1.5–3 m error in Europe), turned into storeys with storey heights fitted on Berlin; used only where no register or official 3D model sizes the building.
Open download204 buildings sizedLive
2026-10-09
CC BY-NC 4.0 (heights); footprints from OpenStreetMap and Microsoft: ODbL
Road noise (EU Environmental Noise Directive, Lden)
European Environment Agency
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-09
EEA standard re-use policy (attribution)
Leerstandsmelder.de — public reports of empty buildings
Leerstandsmelder (Gängeviertel e.V., Hamburg)
Shown while we ask Leerstandsmelder for permission. Reports since 2016 only, with the address, the month reported and a link to each entry; not checked by EHC. Each point says when a report has since been marked demolished, lived in, in interim use or rebuilt on Leerstandsmelder, and the owner type the reporter gave (private owners are never named).
Asking for permission0Pending
2026-10-09
Credited to Leerstandsmelder.de; asking for permission
Open-ended property funds: buildings they report partly empty
Open-ended real-estate funds (each point names its fund and report)
German and Austrian open-ended public property funds must list every property with its vacancy (or letting) rate in their annual and half-year reports. scripts/reuse/import-fund-reports.ts reads those lists; properties at 10 % vacancy or more are shown, those at 25 % or more count as evidence.
Open download0Live
2026-10-09
Published fund report (KAGB / KARBV property list), cited per point
Co-working spaces, department stores, banks, hotels and cinemas listed as permanently closed
Overture Maps Foundation (closure data: BrightQuery company records)
Places with operating_status "permanently_closed" in the monthly Overture release, read by scripts/reuse/import-overture-closures.ts and matched to the building they sit in. A closed business is usually one unit; names are shown only for companies, never for sole traders.
Open download0Live
2026-10-09
CDLA Permissive 2.0 (Overture Maps Foundation)
Land without current use and stalled construction, mapped from satellite imagery (Copernicus Urban Atlas 2006–2018)
European Environment Agency — Copernicus Land Monitoring Service
Urban Atlas class 13400 (brownfields, demolition sites and gaps in the built-up area, 0.25 ha and up) compared across the 2006, 2012 and 2018 editions, so each plot says how long it has stood unused; plus construction sites (13300) already under way in 2012, and 2012 construction sites left unused by 2018. Read from the EEA's open ArcGIS services, the same way in every radar city. The 2021 edition (Copernicus Data Space) drops plots built on since 2018 where scripts/reuse/import-urban-atlas-2021.ts has been run. Points are context, never evidence of vacancy.
Open API70Live
2026-10-09
Copernicus open data (© European Union, Copernicus Land Monitoring Service 2006–2021, EEA)
Stalled construction and buildings held by insolvent developers
EHC research (dated press and court sources per point)
Signa, Adler/Consus and other developer insolvencies since 2022 and stalled sites, each with its latest dated status (src/scripts/data/reuse/stalled-projects.json; news leads from scripts/reuse/mine-news.ts are reviewed before they join).
EHC research0Live
2026-10-09
Cited publisher per point
Church buildings the dioceses and regional churches plan to give up
Catholic dioceses and Protestant regional churches (their building plans), via EHC research
Buildings a church body’s published building plan or recent reporting names as to be given up, without church funding, for sale or lease, or profaned (src/scripts/data/reuse/church-plans.json and brussels-churches.json).
EHC research0Live
2026-10-09
Cited publisher per point
Named buildings and sites from EHC research (each with its own source)
European Housing Coop research
EHC research7Live
2026-10-09
Facts cited to their publishers
Year built and listing: OpenStreetMap building tags
OpenStreetMap contributors
start_date / construction_date and heritage / listed_status of the OpenStreetMap outline a record is matched to, where no register answers. Read with the outline match, not a separate query.
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
Neglected buildings on which Constanța council raised the building tax by up to 500% (decisions of 2023–2025)
Constanța council (council decisions), read from the Index normativ local (hcl.usr.ro)
Open download14Live
2026-10-09
Official council decisions (public acts, outside copyright under Law 8/1996 art. 9); the index states no licence — shown with credit to the council and hcl.usr.ro
Office buildings mapped on OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap contributors (via overpass.openstreetmap.fr)
Open API153Live
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0

What this radar cannot see yet

  • No register of empty buildings, no open list of the City's, the county's or the State's vacant buildings; the city's open-data presence is empty.
  • The neglected-building decisions say a building is neglected, not empty; only 14 of 25 addresses could be placed on OpenStreetMap.
  • ISU Dobrogea's list of expertised buildings (a PDF) was not read: its host serves a certificate for another domain, which we did not bypass.
  • No office-market figures and no open cadastre of buildings (floor areas from the Global Building Atlas); aerial photos come from the 2017–2020 national orthophoto at 1.5 m resolution.

Know an empty building we have missed?

Open data cannot see everything. Tell us about a building in Constanța that stands empty or barely used; once we have checked it, it joins the map under “Reported by visitors (checked)”.

A phone held up to photograph an empty shopfront, with a map pin drawn above it

We publish the address, the kind of building and your description once we have checked it — never your email. Please do not name the people who own or live in a building.

Radars nearby

The other radars in the same country and the nearest beyond. All 134 cities in the atlas

The figure on each card: empty buildings on record.

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