Pipera

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This old map of northern Bucharest shows the former Pipera Airport slightly left of center. Băneasa Airport is at upper left.

Pipera is a district of Voluntari city, situated in the north part of Bucharest, Romania. Until 1995, it was an ordinary village. After that, an "el dorado" of land transactions began. Plots of land that were 1 USD/m² reached in 2005 the amount of 250 USD/m². In this time, more than 1400 houses were built here, transforming Pipera in one of the most expensive residential areas.

And because the inhabitants needed places to shop or to spend their free time, a shopping park was built also. So what initially started as a Carrefour and Bricostore, quickly developed into a Metro, a Selgross Cash & Carry, an IKEA and most importantly the biggest mall of today's Bucharest: Baneasa Shopping City.

Pipera could easily organize itself as a city, due to the important number of population, the police station, the church, shopping places and a large number of offices for the big companies. The only one missing would be the City Hall.

Unfortunately its massive increase isn't very good for the transportation. It seems that there is a number of cars which exceeds the limit of comfort in traveling from Pipera to the city and back. Some complain that they make even 1 hour and a half, trying to exit/enter Pipera. For this, the City Hall of Voluntari has started building a bridge on one of the two roads connecting it to the city. The works started in the first part of 2007 and don't seem to end very soon. For that they blocked one main road connecting the city to this suburb and the traffic got even worse.

The district is served by Pipera metro station, the northern terminus of Bucharest Metro Line 2.

The Pipera industrial center (Romanian: platforma industrială ) is on the site of a former airport (Aeroportul Pipera) from the interwar period.

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Coordinates: 44°30′N 26°08′E / 44.5°N 26.133°E / 44.5; 26.133

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