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PussyLover 69
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Report from The Nation dated Friday 23 February 2007 :-
Central Pattana awarded 30-year lease
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Crown Property Bureau approves plan for shops, offices, hotel
The Crown Property Bureau has awarded Central Pattana (CPN) a 30-year lease to develop a 6.4-hectare section of the former Pre-Cadet School, near Lumpini Park, which is currently occupied by the Suan Lum Night Bazaar.
According to the statement released by the bureau yesterday, CPN's proposal for developing the site met its design and concept criteria for creating a landmark and a true centerpiece attraction for Bangkok. The plan maps out a complex, including world-class shopping facilities, offices and a hotel.
The former lease agreement between the Crown Property Bureau and P Con Development (Thai) for the entire Pre-Cadet School site of 20.3 hectares expired in March last year.
At that time, the Crown Property Bureau gave a grace period of one year to allow small retailers in the Suan Lum Night Bazaar to find new locations. That grace period expires on April 30 this year, the bureau said.
Aviruth Wongbuddhapitak, assistant director-general of the Crown Property Bureau and director of CPBP - the bureau's property development arm - said the 20.3-hectare plot of the former Pre-Cadet School had been divided into three sections. These are the development zone allocated to CPN, an Embassy Row, and an additional sector reserved for "near-term development".
The 6.4-hectare site to be leased by CPN faces Rama IV Road.
CPN's proposal introduces a number of interesting and fresh architectural concepts that will upgrade the appearance and value of both the site and adjacent areas, Aviruth said. Extensive studies have been carried out to ensure a smooth traffic flow around the site and its surrounding area.
The multipurpose development will provide a range of services and products that the bureau considers attractive and beneficial to the community.
CPN's executive vice president for marketing, Nattakit Tangpoonsinthanee, said the company was notified of the lease award only yesterday. Because a memorandum of understanding has yet to be signed, CPN is unable to disclose details of the project.
"However, the location is quite perfect - in the heart of the capital and surrounded by great facilities such as the Skytrain and Suan Lum park. We are quite confident of developing a landmark to promote the good image of Bangkok," Nattakit said.
CPN president and chief executive Kobchai Chirathivat said during an interview with The Nation in November that the company wanted to turn the Suan Lum plot into a high-rise development complex surrounded by the park.
"There are a lot of tall trees. We would keep them all. To maximise value from the land, we would then have to erect high-rise buildings. In a way, this premises could be called 'Central in the Park'," he said.
The Crown Property Bureau said the plans for the site were the result of extensive study and reviews carried out over nearly four years. It hopes the development will become a model for other developments around Bangkok and its environs.
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 7:12 pm on Feb. 22, 2007
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Ballsburstin
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Wow, just what we need, more world class shopping in BKK.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 9:59 pm on Feb. 22, 2007
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ringthebells
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aren't they gonna reopen at the old tobacco factory ground??
rtb
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 1:46 am on Feb. 23, 2007
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PussyLover 69
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Report from Bangkok Post dated Sunday 29 April 2007 :-
Vendors refuse to leave night bazaar
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Shopowners at Bangkok's Suan Lum Night Bazaar plan to defy a Monday deadline to pack up and leave while a court decides the fate of one of the city's most popular tourist destinations.
"We will stay. We will not leave," a giftshop owner Wanwisakha Chansorn told Reuters outside her tiny stall in the sprawling market of 3,000 shops, a handful of restaurants and a Thai puppet theatre.
"Nobody plans to leave and we will go along with the majority," she said of her fellow vendors who sell everything from flip flops, fake watches and other tourist trinkets to handmade furniture and silk art.
Shopkeepers like Wanwisakha can generate sales of 10,000-20,000 baht per day while paying a monthly rent of 5,000-8,000 baht.
"Most of our customers are foreigners. Nobody wants to leave at a time when they are making money," she said of a major stop on Bangkok's tourist map with busloads of foreign visitors, mostly Asian, visiting the night market each day.
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Posted on: 10:27 am on April 29, 2007
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madfrog
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Once they have closed every single market the tourist like and replace them with some "world class shopping malls", then maybe they will realise their "world class shopping malls" are empty...
Tourists do NOT come to Thailand to see more supermarkets like back home.
But Thailand does not need tourists...right...errr???
Madfrog
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Posted on: 1:25 pm on May 2, 2007
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LocalYokul
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so there will be guys paying $10 for socks in Emporium-like joints and 500 for BJs at SoL
great, 555
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Posted on: 10:48 pm on May 2, 2007
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Cat Woods
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Hi pals
I will be visiting BKK next weekend. The cheap hotel that I book does not have the EPL football channel. As I do not want to miss Liverpool Chelsea game next Sunday and I remember Suan Lum used to have 2 giant screens for sports channel.
Does anyone know if Suan Lum is still open nowadays?
Many thanks in advance.
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Posted on: 7:27 am on Aug. 9, 2007
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seajohn
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I think it is still open. Am I wrong?
It's too bad if I am... I spent many a pleasant evening there.
But I don't know about sports games on the screens. My eyes were too busy ogling the Tiger Beer Cheer girls... Excellent uniforms... And the Singha girls... And the Sapporo... And the Heinekin, yes... And even the less made-up but very personable Chang girls... And the dancers on stage too if I was lucky enough to be sitting so close to the sonic hurricane that my eyes could actually see them while trembling with high decibels.
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 8:01 am on Aug. 9, 2007
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dfp
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The pub at Landmark Hotel has football channels.
Also the pub Hanrahans at soi 4 (Nana) shows epl matches.
I think you will have plenty of choices.
Hope Liverpool wins.
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Posted on: 8:10 am on Aug. 9, 2007
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