MBK Mall, Chiang Mai

[hillside4guy]

I've heard the old Amari Rincome site is being redeveloped into another Mall/Cinema complex. I'm curious as to what the final site will look like and how traffic and pedestrians will flow around it - is anything public about this site yet? Artist's impressions, model plans, expected completion dates, that sort of thing?

[CMKiwi]

not seen anything on this one...your avatar of the HS4 swimming pool looks nice tho.

[Chicog]

This is going back a bit but it was their stated intention at the time...

The current hotel site will be integrated into a larger redevelopment project which will house a lifestyle community mall featuring landscaped plaza, retail areas, cinemas and restaurants.

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The Amari hotel isn’t going away though, a new smaller hotel is going to be built on the spot with only 85 rooms and will feature a more modern look (the old one looked more Thai in nature) and be surrounded by retail shops and that whole modern lifestyle that guests love. An all-day dining restaurant, meeting room and gymnasium. It has yet to be revealed if a nightclub will also be added which would be a great addition to the area making Nimmanheiman the place to go not only for Thai’s but for Tourists as well.

[northernjohn]

This is going back a bit but it was their stated intention at the time...

The current hotel site will be integrated into a larger redevelopment project which will house a lifestyle community mall featuring landscaped plaza, retail areas, cinemas and restaurants.

<snip>

The Amari hotel isn’t going away though, a new smaller hotel is going to be built on the spot with only 85 rooms and will feature a more modern look (the old one looked more Thai in nature) and be surrounded by retail shops and that whole modern lifestyle that guests love. An all-day dining restaurant, meeting room and gymnasium. It has yet to be revealed if a nightclub will also be added which would be a great addition to the area making Nimmanheiman the place to go not only for Thai’s but for Tourists as well.

Sounds like an expansion for farongvile.

[roger1999]

Work is proceeding well on that site. Plans were to open the hotel by the end of this year, and they seem on track to do that. Nimmen is no longer "Farongville." By day it's Chinese and Thai with some westerners, and by night it's mostly young Thais and some Chinese tourists.

[Sparkles]

Work is proceeding well on that site. Plans were to open the hotel by the end of this year, and they seem on track to do that. Nimmen is no longer "Farongville." By day it's Chinese and Thai with some westerners, and by night it's mostly young Thais and some Chinese tourists.

Chinese,I'm told by someone, who works in a coffee shop there, are apparently buying into busineses's.Hardly a surprise,natural progression.

[CMKiwi]

And if you thought the Thais arent willing to learn/speak English, just you wait till the Chinese are in charge of everything.

Things will not improve in that aspect...but perhaps the chinese takeaways will!

[Rancid]

Work is proceeding well on that site. Plans were to open the hotel by the end of this year, and they seem on track to do that. Nimmen is no longer "Farongville." By day it's Chinese and Thai with some westerners, and by night it's mostly young Thais and some Chinese tourists.

Chinese,I'm told by someone, who works in a coffee shop there, are apparently buying into busineses's.Hardly a surprise,natural progression.

My taxi driver says there is a Chinese moobaan in Nonghoy near the police station. Suspect like in so many countries Chinese money is flowing into local real estate as a safety hedge.

And as another poster showed they have their own ways of circumnavigating land ownership laws that is not buying in a wife's name. No doubt helping the real estate market along.

[LawrenceChee]

In China this is common practice ...they start small sending the mums here with kids to study the land and English and intl school

One thing you have to give to them is how fast they turned from ignorant to setting up their bases ...they understand the land well soon enough and they have an appetite for risks

Then the man arrive and then start to snap up the deals ...in China there are strict laws against marriages of convenience to enjoy the subsidies for married couples for housing

The Chinese were having a good go at this earning money on the side till they stopped it a few years ago

In Thailand there re lots of proxy woman to be "wives" available for such deals to go ahead

[Asiantravel]

the time to start worrying will be when Chinese have got as much influence in Thailand as they have in Cambodia where they even managed to get permission to develop inside a national park

Chinese take a slice of Cambodia

Phnom Penh Post reported the resort is already under construction on 3,300 hectares inside Ream National Park, and is set to include villas, five-star hotels, an exhibition centre, duty-free shopping and health facilities

No explanation was given on how a major tourism project could be approved on national park land.

The development will cover 28 km of pristine coastline on the Ream Peninsula and western half of Koh Thmei island.

http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2016/03/chinese-take-a-slice-of-cambodia/