Landmark or blight on the face of Pattaya? - video mock-up as PM asks the question

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Landmark or blight on the face of Pattaya? - video mock-up as PM asks the question

 

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A video purporting to be a conversation between the Thai prime minister and the Pattaya mayor regarding an unfinished building project has appeared on Facebook.

 

The video - on the We Love Pattaya page - claims to have originated from a question posed by Prayut Chan-ocha to mayor Anan.

 

It claims the PM spots the huge building on a visit to the international boat show at Bali Hai and asks the mayor:

 

"What is that doing there? Are they building it or is it old?"

 

Anan then supposedly explains that it's an old unfinished building tied up in a legal wrangle.

 

It is in fact the Waterfront Suites and Residences Pattaya development.

 

Pictures are shown of how the view used to look in 1965 and 2012.

 

And now....as an Ultraman boot seems to suggest what Pattaya people would like to do to it.

 

The video calls the building a blight on Pattaya rather than claims that it is a landmark property.

 

Text cites the history of the development that is mired in illegality over size both upwards and in the use of land space for car parking.

 

They said it is going ahead one way or another.

 

Source: We Love Pattaya

 

 

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[champers]

Satire Thai style.

[LennyW]

Blight.

[marginline]

Satire. Pattaya's Sagrada Família.

[pumpjack]

glad i didnt buy into a pre plan contract with a large deposit !!

[phantomfiddler]

An awful eyesore on the general view of Pattaya Beach, should never have been allowed to be built !

[newnative]

Landmark.  Finish it already.

[mikebell]

There's one blighting the beach at Bang Saray.  They would never get built if people didn't put down a deposit.

[Peterw42]

2 minutes ago, mikebell said:

There's one blighting the beach at Bang Saray.  They would never get built if people didn't put down a deposit.

Have you seen the huge tract of land at Bangsaray that's marked for the mega mall, it will get worse.

[topt]

1 hour ago, Peterw42 said:

Have you seen the huge tract of land at Bangsaray that's marked for the mega mall, it will get worse.

Where exactly?

[KittenKong]

1 hour ago, mikebell said:

There's one blighting the beach at Bang Saray. 

 

At least the Del Mare actually got built and isnt just an abandoned shell, though there is another abandoned shell right next to the poshest hotel/condo in Na Jomtien.

[newnative]

8 minutes ago, KittenKong said:

 

At least the Del Mare actually got built and isnt just an abandoned shell, though there is another abandoned shell right next to the poshest hotel/condo in Na Jomtien.

Yes, why hasn't that abandoned shell been torn down?  They got just tall enough to be an ugly eyesore and then ran out of money.

[Peterw42]

2 hours ago, topt said:

Where exactly?

Right in the middle of the beach, from the beach through to Sukumvit rd. I was looking at a condo just near Le Beach House and admiring the beach views etc, until the real estate agent said the new mall is going in front.

 

https://www.google.co.th/maps/place/Le+Beach+Home/@12.7669849,100.9005852,1535m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m8!1m2!2m1!1sbang+saray!3m4!1s0x0:0x7dac96d872f0da05!8m2!3d12.7688863!4d100.9014362

 

Edited November 25, 2017 by Peterw42

[KittenKong]

2 hours ago, newnative said:

Yes, why hasn't that abandoned shell been torn down?  They got just tall enough to be an ugly eyesore and then ran out of money.

 

I suspect that a lot of these abandoned/derelict places have been foreclosed on by banks. They probably have a very overvalued book price for them and so cannot sell them. They certainly arent interested in developing them themselves. So they just sit and rot. Look at Jomtien beach road for several examples.

 

Property taxes on commercial land would encourage the speedy unblocking of such places, though the banks would still have to take a hit on the asset values, and that might open another big can of worms.

[KittenKong]

31 minutes ago, Peterw42 said:

I was looking at a condo just near Le Beach House and admiring the beach views etc, until the real estate agent said the new mall is going in front.

 

I looked at Del Mare a few times, but always wrote it off due to the empty plots all around. This being Thailand absolutely anything could be built there: factories, high-rise condos, shopping malls, pig farms, discos, open-air music venues ...... all equally undesirable as far as I can see. Not to mention the "boom-boom" vehicles parked on the beach most days.