"Walking Street" Soon To be a MEMORY ?

[jacko]

Sometime when you are dining at the Pattaya Beer Garden, cast your eyes to the north and look at the high rises. Never mind who stays there and why, just recognize there is a market that supported that construction. Do you think that if the "smart money" decides there is enough of a market to justify building a lot more high rise, high rent properties on south Pattaya beach, that Walking Street will not be knocked down in a big hurry?

Well they haven't knocked PIH down yet!

[Gary]

That old rumor has been circulating for many years already. Allegedly the businesses on the sea side of Walking Street are all illegally built and must be torn down. If there is a statute of limitations regarding that construction, and there probably is, I'd guess that it has long ago expired.

 

View Talay 7 in Jomtien is obviously built too near the beach and is clearly illegally built. I don't see it being torn down despite the legal objections and lawsuits from Jomtien Complex.

[spacecadet]

Does anybody remember the beer bar complex on what is now Chewit Park in BKK? On Sukhumvit across from what used to be Clinton Plaza(another story). One night the bulldozers came in and leveled dozens of fully operational beer bars (beer and all) and any other businesses in between. Chewit pissed somebody off big time. Point is - it can happen overnight in an instant.

[waverider64]

walking street will be taken by mother nature the ocean

[Raisuli]

Soi 6,7 & 8 seem like better candidates for redevelopment than WS.

[tomcat76]

Sort of off-topic, but have they opened those new bars at the Avenue complex yet? Just bar beers or are there some go-gos?