OCEAN ONE TOWER, 01

"I can announce that the jomtium Beach Road you know today, will be no longer be the unkept fishing village style resort, you once knew, as Developers from UK< USA, Dubai to Australia and Hong Kong, are now eyeing it up, to turn Jomtium into a Luxury Classy 5 Star Miami Dubai, Sky Scraper Resort, you will not believe"

With developments like La Royale, The Sails, Northshore, Northpoint, and now Majestic Tower all under construction, Pattaya is poised to join the big leagues.


I find this to be a very interesting issue because there are so many things involved here. First of all why Pattaya? What is the draw here ? Does Pattaya have the nicest beaches in all of Thailand? I don't think so. Is it the night life? maybe. Is there that many sex tourist that would spend that kind of money to own a second home?Lets face it sex is the # 1 draw to that area. Are there really that many people who want to retire in Pattata and could afford to do so in such an expensive development? I would guess most that buy are not retired.There are so many issues here I wounder how this would really work out. With developers trying to draw the Ellette upper class to this area would they really be happy here? The beaches are nice but are also small and are not from what I can see maintained them very well. They have spent money to fix them up but then they just leave them to fall apart. (open or broken storm drain lids that many can fall in for example). Can it handle such a population boom? Traffic is bad enough now what will it be like once all these building are done? From what I see crime is on a rise and the police are being accused of corruption and seem to not be doing a antiquate job. Does Pattaya have a construction inspector?Seems to me so many construction jobs are being started and allot fail to be finished all over the place (side walks, building, parks etc.) To me Pattaya falls short in ares like city services like garbage collection, street cleaning, wild dogs and beach and park maintenance to name a few. Is all this a Rodeo Dr like they say in the article or will it just be confined to that building.With Pattaya being they way it is now will all these upper class farangs want to buy there and be satisfied with they way Pattaya is. The good news is this will open up allot of jobs for the Thai people with plenty of money to be maid and allot of business opportunity there also.To me this is a make or break type of project if all goes well you can forget the cheap days of living in Pattaya because the prices for everything will be going up dramatically and those on a fixed budget for retirement will be hard pressed. This also could be a huge flop like the Jontiem complex was 10 yrs ago (but just now is recovering). I don't know to me this is a very interesting issue and will surly change Pattaya as we know it for better or worse. With all this said I love Pattaya and in no way am I trying to downgrade it I'm just wondering how this will change it and if the upper class will love it for what is it as well.

Putting this "Majestic" monstrosity in Jomtien is obscene. There is no way the infrastructure can support this kind of development. Hua Hin is looking better and better.

Putting this "Majestic" monstrosity in Jomtien is obscene. There is no way the infrastructure can support this kind of development. Hua Hin is looking better and better.

You are correct.
It is obscene. This is Pattaya.

Time Magazine Asia said it quite well:
Which kind will Pattaya get? It doesn't actually matter. Pattaya has no historical buildings to preserve, no culture to erode. An invented place is free to reinvent itself, although Pattaya will probably always be a tabloid town with broadsheet pretensions.

http://www.time.com/time/asia/2005/journey/pattaya.html

My god what if there was a fire there. I have never seen a ambulance let alone a large enough fire ladder truck.

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Called Majestic Tower, it will soar more than half a mile up into the clouds.

Help me out with the math here, fellows. The building is advertised as 91 floors. There are 2,640 feet in a half-mile. So.... each floor averages 29 feet (8.8 meters) in height??

And, that is assuming that the hype meant from the ground. If they meant from the bottom of the cloud layer, it's even more amazing.

[Bob]

Tallest building in the world is Taipei 101 in Taipei, Taiwan (of course) and it's 1676 feet tall. That's considerably less than half a mile (2640 feet).
Most of the high rises are approximately 10 feet per story (usually first few stories are taller) so I'd guess it would be about
950 feet high if it's 91 stories. Still, of course, way too tall for the neighborhood......

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[Monty-old]

I don't believe it can be finished in that time, that 2.14 floors per month,
there is a 5 floor hotel being built across the road from Monty's B&B , they have 40 to 80 people working on it 7 days a week, it might be open in 18 months.
I think it is back to the drawing boards,
I am all for this New Condo, But put out the right facts, if you want people to invest in it.
If it is OPEN in Dec 2009. I will buy you all a drink.
I hope I live long enough to see it finished.

[AMARETTO-old]