Neo Pattaya: Project to transform resort into state the art metropolis begins - starting with Walking Street

[VBF]

1 hour ago, nomadinuk said:

You only have to look at what they did to sinoukville in cambodia. Search for youtube video sinoukville 2016-2020. 

Having SEEN the differences in "Snooky" over the last decade I can only agree. 

[Alidiver]

In preparation for casinos and Chinese invasion. 

[D M G]

OK.

- Completion date?

- Lot's of money, lot's of corruption

- Pre-Walking Street moves to another area

- Nothing wrong with dreaming, but you will need experienced managers to make this happen

- Putting up a new sign...........

[KiiGiam]

Maybe I am among the wrong group, but why all the haste even on this page to slam Pattaya's reputation?  The place is a bit much for me, but it is my personal decision whether I go there or not.  What -makes- Pattaya Pattaya -is- the sex.   Why shy away from this?  All I see in these kinds of plans are an effort by carpetbaggers from China to swoop in and buy up Koh Samui, Pattaya and Patong and turn everything into the same type of boring cities found in the rest of the world.  This is my prediction... if the takeover of walking street is successful, people will vote with their feet and their dollars and they will follow the fun wherever it can gain a foothold and Walking Street will become no more than the boring part of town where girls go with their customers for some shopping or an expensive meal.

[aussienam]

I truly hope that any casino ideas do not materialize. Look at Cambodia and other developing nations who have succumbed to them. Chinese will move in, cartels and increased crime, regular people are pushed away and only wealthy, money launderers and gambling addicts need apply.

[lumply]

Embrace change. I for one is looking forward to it

[mrfill]

4 hours ago, sweatalot said:

So they should fix just that and not touch what gave the city its special athmosphere

Is that from the piles of durian at the roadsides?

[Simons3]

the monorail could be good, the one in Las Vegas works very nicely and drops you inside the Casino's, never have to go out into the heat! going to be interesting what they plan to charge for a ticket, bet it won't be 10 baht ????. 

[Jiggo]

12 hours ago, Spellforce said:

It is quite possible that Chinese investors will buy a lot of bankrupt businesses on WS. Everything could then go very quickly.
Let's not forget that covid has had almost no economic impact on China.

Not yet  don't think the world will forget. 

[Jiggo]

2 hours ago, lumply said:

Embrace change. I for one is looking forward to it

To what, be careful what you wish for....

[mrfill]

7 hours ago, Skallywag said:

Neo.  A dystopian future in which we are all trapped inside a simulated reality know as Pattaya.

We are living in the Matrix of Pattaya, the future's so bright we gotta wear shades.

If it feels good, just do it.  Enjoy it all while you can.  ????

 

Hardly. Its just the Greek word for new.

Should have used some French to make it Pattaya Nouveau or Latin perhaps to become Novus Pattaya. Oooh they sound so exotic...

[Pro1Expat]

14 hours ago, spiekerjozef said:

Ready in the year 2138.

Sewer system 5 years later.

 

 

You are optimistic

[Soikhaonoiken]

What a crazy idea,  Another idea to put off tourist from visiting Pattaya / Thailand, thousands upon thousands of tourists visit Pattaya for its entertainment in what ever form that may be... 

Sometimes things like this don't work, I remember a bar owner on Soi 7 modernising his bar to a high standard, as he wanted his bar to be the best on the Soi,  when finished it looked really smart,  but a big mistake as very few customers went in, he admitted his big mistake, as customers thought it must be expensive, ( can't remember the name of bar) 

[Soikhaonoiken]

Certainly the wrong time to be spending 80bn Baht to spruce Walking St, at this present time money would be better spent on the people whom have lost there business due to  covid, and the unemployed, instead they have to rely on food hand outs. 

[daveAustin]

Vain attempt to make Pattaya all prissy goodie two shoes to entice the 'nice' people and forget the shadowy past that made the place rich 

[jacko45k]

15 hours ago, abrahamzvi said:

can you please make the pavements everywhere more easily and safely walkable

And put some pavements in where pedestrians can actually be pedestrians. 

[kiwikeith]

18 hours ago, crobe said:

"Walking Street is set to become a “modern entertainment area” with walking areas, recreation, shops and restaurants."

 

So none of the existing entertainment businesses then?

Possibly a future for the Avenue after all

 

Walking street will simply relocate as did the famous red light district in Singapore, as did Pratunam become Sukhumvit, Pratunam used to be the red light area during the Vietnam war and slowly moved a few blocks to Nana ect.

If walking street is transformed it will be full of Chinese guest houses and restaurants, gold shops and money exchanges.

 

Parking provision will be made for tour busses which will arrive by the dozen full of Chinese tourists ready to feed money into Chinese Thai coffers.

All the street vendors and bars and the girls and boys will easily relocate a few blocks away and eventually no one will no the difference except for a few old boys reminiscing of the good old days over a bottle of Leo or other brand. 

[davidcraig]

With 5,000 to 10,000 stray dogs invading many of Pattaya's streets, it's going to be rather difficult to attract families of tourists. Just wait till a few more children get attacked by packs of stray dogs and the media reports this then families will avoid the place and the stray dogs can take over the city.

[jacko45k]

2 minutes ago, davidcraig said:

With 5,000 to 10,000 stray dogs invading many of Pattaya's streets, it's going to be rather difficult to attract families of tourists. Just wait till a few more children get attacked by packs of stray dogs and the media reports this then families will avoid the place and the stray dogs can take over the city.

Where are all these stray dogs.... ? Didn't see any packs of 5000 or so snarling their way down Pattaya Klang, when I was in town yesterday shopping. 

[Gandtee]

So, the old Pattaya that millions of tourists came to see will finally be destroyed. Much the same as other things unique to Thailand. How many tourists will come to experience something much the same as they have in their own country? Thailand seems to enjoy shooting itself in the foot. I'm glad I arrived and saw it thirty odd years ago. And no. I didn't come to partake in the delights of the flesh that Pattaya is famous for. It was because it was so different, vibrant and exciting. R.I.P.

[kcpattaya]

Wishful thinking.
His brother K Tik announced similar plans more than a decade ago.
And here we are.

 

[cyril sneer]

12 hours ago, Mike Teavee said:

Do you have a link to support that statement only AFAIK everybody (including returning Thais) have to quarantine 

it was a little joke x

[Tonypandy]

16 hours ago, jingjai9 said:

It is time for a change in Pattaya. If the old entertainment places still have a demand, they will find a place. Hopefully in an area where young children do not have to walk in the middle of adult nightlife. The worst thing they can do is ban the nightlife and make it go underground.  It is interesting here in Thailand how things reinvent themselves.

They like things going underdround, corruption is popular here

[johnarth]

for years the Chinese government used companies to buy overseas wealth for them, it used to be common knowledge in Aussie years ago when they were buying Aust. out

[bluesea]

At this present time you have no money to give to the Poor & Homeless so where is all the money comming from?? Pattaya is currently under a big Infrastruction project as well as the super highway on Sukhuvit road , More money spent on a dream for more tourisim please understand it is over!! for about 5 years..

 

[Stoker58]

If they could put all the electric cables underground and provide a public bus service it would be a great start.

[NoshowJones]

20 hours ago, ginjag said:

Will they choose this moment to bulldoze down ALL the illegal businesses built over the beach in Walking Street ???

What illegal businesses would that be?

[newnative]

13 hours ago, Showtime said:

So when exactly are they going to clean the water and clean up the beach?  This plan is probably not going anywhere anyway, but if it does a clean beach and clean water will make or break it.  Not to mention high end tourists won't deal with scumbag taxis, dirty hotels, or poor restaurants..

    Can't vouch for the water but Pattaya Beach, even pre-covid with tourists, has been kept clean and has been since it was widened.  I walk the north Pattaya Beach area about every day--did again this morning--and it is clean.  This area also has some very nice big hotels--Mytt, Holiday Inn, Dusit, Amari, Ozo, Palazzo, Brighton, Siam@Siam, Centara, D Beach, Hard Rock, Mercure, A-01, and lots of smaller nice boutique hotels.  Two big new ones are under construction.  I wouldn't describe any of these as 'dirty'.  Can you find a fleabag hotel in Pattaya?  Sure--and probably in any other city in Thailand, as well.   Doesn't mean you have to stay there.  If you're finding the restaurants are 'poor' you're not eating at the right places.  

[Rimmer]

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[mikebell]

A perfect neo-Pattaya would have a police force; no dogs; no haze; working taximeters; sidewalks; drains; AND '80 billion baht in public funds,' would be spent on the public.