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Originally Posted by ATMwalking
Thanks for the laugh  Would be nice if the government did anything that was even remotely helpful for anything.
If we are pretending, then what the government should be doing to help is:
* finish the patong bypass road - make it easier to get there.
* clear the tuk tuk army in front and side of the mall
* clear the rift raft of vendors in behind the mall that are now using the street as part of their selling area.
* put in lights or traffic signs at the T intersections behind the mall that joins to the market road. many near collisions whenever I am there.
* give incentives for the mall parking to stay open 24 hours.
* get bangla boxing to stop blasting their audio "tonight...tonight" commercial at the mall's front courtyard |
Agre. And for the "tonight ... tonight": It's a joke, and the main reason for not to go!!
Opening a high end hotell will help. A good cinema will be poular an draw people.
High end resturangs and bars/pubs together in one part of the mall will be good. (så a report here that traffic in the bar and pup was up)
I would dropp/have very low leases for 1 - 2 years for atrective buisnesses (brand name) to open inside the mall. When people start comeing it will be easyer to rent the other locations.
The market would be tourist form Kata to Kamala. (Think Thais from Phuket town will go Central) The tailors and tshirt salsmenn are for most people a negativ expirience. But there are a market for shopping, and Patong don't have enough to offer today. JC could/should have have help Patong/Phuket attract av more upscale clintel, and therefore good for development of Phuket as an international holliday destination.
Think Jungceylon is a little bit " If you build it they will come" type of prodject.
But there is market and potensial.