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Jomtien's New Building Boom (and the Old Ocean 1 site)

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@Guderian  I found Satellite map from 2008 A nice big bit of land

 

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then 2009 the steel girders appear but never gets completed.

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a photo not mine

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2020 plot cleared again ?

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1 hour ago, Guderian said:

 

I don't have a photo but I noticed on the weekend that they've demolished the unfinished building on the sizeable plot of land just north of Siam Commercial on Jomtien Beach Road by Soi Wat Bun. That old thing, which was just a few stories of cement and steel, has been there for ages, since before I first came to Jomtien in 2003, anyway. I guess that it was also a leftover from the 1997 crash? I wonder if it's just a general clean-up, or are they going to build something there too?

 

This is the old building I'm rambling on about, from Google Street View:

 

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And what it looks like now....

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