Wall Street or Disneyland? HCMC mulls financial center themes

A bird-eye's view of HCMC's District 1. Photo by VnExpress/Quynh Tran

Two different main themes have been presented for an international financial center in HCMC: one a traditional Wall-Street-like concept; and the other, a Disneyland.

There are investors who are ready to invest at least $6 billion in the new financial center and they want a Disneyland there, Jonathan Hanh Nguyen, chairman of the Imex Pan Pacific Group (IPPG) said at a forum last week.

The center should be "non-traditional", which means it should include all the business features of the financial centers like New York and Hong Kong as well as the entertainment services of Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands, he added.

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