By Goong Nang(GN)

 

Pattaya – Pattaya City leadership is planning to renovate the Pattaya City sign on the hill overlooking Bali Hai Pier with a viewpoint tower, sky garden, and skywalk over the next several years. The renovation is one of several plans in the ‘Neo Pattaya’ project, designed to boost the image of the city and improve natural attractions when tourism, both foreign and domestic, can return.

 

TPN media notes we have previously covered this plan several times over the past year or so and that the plan is a “long-term” plan designed for “after Covid-19″ to help the city recover for the future.

 

Pattaya City Deputy Mayor Pattana Boonsawat inspected the Pattaya City sign and surrounding area over the past weekend.

 

Pattana told The Pattaya News, “The Pattaya Hill will be developed as a new signature and tourism landmark of Pattaya with wonderful scenery and major improvements.”

 

Full story: https://thepattayanews.com/2021/07/19/pattaya-still-planning-to-renovate-pattaya-city-sign-on-hill-overlooking-bali-hai-pier-with-view-point-tower-skylift-sky-garden-and-glass-skywalk/

 

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Why don't they just power wash the walkway and stairs?  Paint over a bit of rust spots on the sign and call it good.

Lipstick. Pig.

 

Pattaya's real problems need to be dealt with first - it still has tremendous tourism potential.

Plenty of time to do so before the tourists will arrive .

Walking Street is a mess, they need to fix that first, sign is no big deal

The beauty of Thailand to me was the local nature of the city.  Easy to walk around in. Easy for a tourist or expat or anybody else to hop on a baht bus for a modest amount of money and hop off where needed.  So convenient.  As were moto taxis for special destination hops.  My first visit was in 2004 and  I hated over the years watching big malls go up, so many high rise condos.  If I want concrete and steel, then I could go to a big city.  Of course some changes are OK.  I mean as much as I would love to have gone there in like 1982, the city's capacity begrudgingly had to expand.  But gosh you can't even swim in the gulf because the sea water is so dirty. 

What about the "Waterfront"

skyscraper    will it ever be completed or demolished ?

 the idiom, “Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic,” comes to mind...

 

This area is in dire need of some ornamental lamp posts

i am sure that company which installed revolutionary street lights is available to take on this contract

Is that to get a better view of the rusting, abandonded condo next door?

1 hour ago, johng said:

What about the "Waterfront"

skyscraper    will it ever be completed or demolished ?

For sure it will be left to deteriorate for many years followed by completion. They will never pull it down. No money in that.

3 hours ago, Damrongsak said:

Why don't they just power wash the walkway and stairs?  Paint over a bit of rust spots on the sign and call it good.

LOL. The reason, which some of us know, is IMO not to renovate the sign. That's just the excuse, IMO.

11 minutes ago, Henryford said:

Is that to get a better view of the rusting, abandonded condo next door?

Given the result of past projects, such as the marina, it will be another derelict rusting, abandoned structure to add to the present disaster.

Perhaps they can call the them "The buildings of catastrophe" and sell tickets to look though them. The big one in Bkk had a ghost movie made in it.

2 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

Walking Street is a mess, they need to fix that first, sign is no big deal

Not enough money in that.

I agree that waterfront condo should be taken down.

On the other hand, it is always a talking point mention it on here and usually lots of responses.

It is surprising what people think is interesting or want to talk about.  It will probably end up being part of a tour guides presentation escorting tourists on the Skywalk..  Explaining the history of it, why it was stopped, the crane being taken down, etc. 

1 hour ago, bkk6060 said:

I agree that waterfront condo should be taken down.

On the other hand, it is always a talking point mention it on here and usually lots of responses.

It is surprising what people think is interesting or want to talk about.  It will probably end up being part of a tour guides presentation escorting tourists on the Skywalk..  Explaining the history of it, why it was stopped, the crane being taken down, etc. 

What is the history behind the waterfront condo?

5 hours ago, Damrongsak said:

Why don't they just power wash the walkway and stairs?  Paint over a bit of rust spots on the sign and call it good.

That's probably what they will do, but keep the new budget.

1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Perhaps they can call the them "The buildings of catastrophe" and sell tickets to look though them. The big one in Bkk had a ghost movie made in it.

The same developer built condos in Pattaya, two are in Wong Amat; Silver Beach and Park Beach. 

 

Interesting story about the developer, threatening judges, '97 financial crisis etc. 

3 hours ago, johng said:

What about the "Waterfront"

skyscraper    will it ever be completed or demolished ?

I guess they first might decide what to do with all the illegal buildings in the Walking Street before they deal with the Waterfront building...

I walk up there a lot. The thing is, very few people go up there. A few joggers - there's a very delapidated outdoor gym further along - and Thai sightseers. But there's a new cafe, where the old cop post was. AC, good coffee and stunning view as you sip. I always feel privileged walking along the paved, leafy, swept clean paths between Pratumnak Hill and the Bali Hai lookout point, or Pattaya sign. No cars, just dogs, squirrels and feathered birds. Peace!

Don't forget little red, rotating, beacons so everyone overflying Pattaya can see, where all that money has been disappearing in the name of "tourism promotion" - pathetic, to say the least! 
Fix roads and walkways, get all cables underground and put in proper drainage first; if there is anything left after that, then renovate previous installations by not entrusting the same geeks who did the first job! 

How about you take the money for your stupid sign and use it to feed the poor people you're starving out

4 minutes ago, skorp13 said:

How about you take the money for your stupid sign and use it to feed the poor people you're starving out

But it's Pattaya's Hollywood Hills!

Oh yes, the Pattaya City mayor loves the money for these projects...but it never gets spent on the projects it seems. 

October 2020 he lauded the beginning of the 170 million baht Beach Road improvement.  So now it is 10 months later and no work begun yet. 

One new bench has been installed near 13/2, maybe that is it LOL

????

https://thepattayanews.com/2020/10/02/pattaya-city-planning-to-add-another-traffic-parking-lane-to-beach-road-as-part-of-170-million-baht-beach-remodel/?fbclid=IwAR06uwNNHrCnN2UMN4BOCbhufGDDTe3HMy6X2f_zO9U4UFj2UMdomk8XPig

Peace

 

 

 

The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled;

The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead.

22 hours ago, Almer said:

What is the history behind the waterfront condo?

To my recollection, they built a skyscraper that obstructed the view from the much loved lookout ( I think there is a memorial there as well but not sure ); the LOCALS protested, and it was eventually stopped. Unfortunately they didn't get it removed by the company that should never have been allowed to build it there in the first place.

My only hope now is that anyone that invested in that antisocial horror will have lost every satang they spent.

IMO the monstrosity will still be there in 20 years, but more decrepit.

20 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

To my recollection, they built a skyscraper that obstructed the view from the much loved lookout ( I think there is a memorial there as well but not sure ); the LOCALS protested, and it was eventually stopped. Unfortunately they didn't get it removed by the company that should never have been allowed to build it there in the first place.

My only hope now is that anyone that invested in that antisocial horror will have lost every satang they spent.

IMO the monstrosity will still be there in 20 years, but more decrepit.

Thaibeachlovers, hence the reason for having planning regs, ha ha not here.

On 7/19/2021 at 8:12 AM, Card said:

For sure it will be left to deteriorate for many years followed by completion. They will never pull it down. No money in that.

If The General or, especially, The German were to decide the building must go down, it would happen within a week. Does the owner of the Waterfront really have any legal right to sue the powers-that-be over that ruin? Nahh...