by Orichá » Tue Mar 17, 2020 1:16 am
Lucky Lucan wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 12:37 am
..........some rich people are beginning to construct a very VERY huge and tall apartment block, looks to be up to 30 or 40 storeys. How sad. Instead, this big empty lot should have been made into a quaint, tree-filled park along the lines of old Carré Saint-Louis in Montreal, Canada.
I think we all had these dreams at one time of how the old rustic and ravaged Cambodia of old might develop. Unfortunately there isn't much return on parks which need constant maintenance and security. People would be fighting and chopping each other up, what will you do about that?
Well,
mmmm, I think it is okay to build a tall building,
but not in that particular location adjacent to the old town and bridge... They could place the condo a kilometer or two up river, just out of town... It is going to be SO BIG -- it is really really in the wrong place... (And a park costs little to maintain. Security in Kampot? Well, that is not really an issue right now.)
My main point is: since in that particular spot, the whole surrounding area consists of the quaint low-rise "old town", then therefore, the only sensible thing to place in that lot is a nice green park with fountain, flowers and big trees ...Then, Kampot would remain lovely. But the local rich are evil and stupid: obviously, infected by Chinese greed, the local Oknhas have not the slightest notion about intelligent urban design. They cannot seem to conceive of an aesthetic or pragmatic plan for even the briefest instant, I regret to observe. Why not place that edifice a couple kilometers up or down the river? You can still have a nice view, and surround the building with a parkland, too... This place is going to be way too big, you would agree with me if you saw it, I am pretty sure: there is a painting of the finished condo on the wall outside... It's very VERY tall, taller than Trump... But of course, the scurvy-ridden officials took a big piece of change to lease that prime land to whichever greedy but stupid hoodlum came up with enough dough for them...
Shhhhhh, they won't announce who they are, or where they live... Same thing as happened in Sihanoukville: police proxies bought and sold most of the land to the idiotic Chinese gangsters who built many small casinos or unfinished hulks, and as you know, most not having proper inside connections have fled a year later... The ex-police chief built a gigantic mansion on the new avenue down to the beach, using the money he got from his nephew's take on large-scale drug importation kick-backs...
A lot of bad stuff happens in government here: when an important council minister wants to fly to Europe on "official" business, his requisition form for the price of the first class ticket is $7,000 dollars. That is a fact: I met a man who used to work in the Ministry of Justice and he quit in disgust at all the graft and nepotism: uneducated nephews and nieces get jobs they have no education to perform in all the ministries, which is one big reason nothing gets done here in Cambodia. Did you know that?
(BTW, you should see, ironically, Prek Treng (Hun Sen) Beach and how lovely it is... It's located near Sihanoukville, after the port about 7 kms northeast of town. There are always three or four ladies raking the evergreen needles off the sand and bundling them up. The water is clean and swimmable, and best of all -- there is nobody there except a few locals now and then, and only a few more on weekends... The back-packers never discovered it, so nobody knows it exists... The ironies of Cambodia are many...)
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[quote]..........some rich people are beginning to construct a very VERY huge and tall apartment block, looks to be up to 30 or 40 storeys. How sad. Instead, this big empty lot should have been made into a quaint, tree-filled park along the lines of old Carré Saint-Louis in Montreal, Canada.[/quote]
I think we all had these dreams at one time of how the old rustic and ravaged Cambodia of old might develop. Unfortunately there isn't much return on parks which need constant maintenance and security. People would be fighting and chopping each other up, what will you do about that?
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Well, [i]mmmm[/i], I think it is okay to build a tall building, [i]but not in that particular location adjacent to the old town and bridge[/i]... They could place the condo a kilometer or two up river, just out of town... It is going to be SO BIG -- it is really really in the wrong place... (And a park costs little to maintain. Security in Kampot? Well, that is not really an issue right now.)
My main point is: since in that particular spot, the whole surrounding area consists of the quaint low-rise "old town", then therefore, the only sensible thing to place in that lot is a nice green park with fountain, flowers and big trees ...Then, Kampot would remain lovely. But the local rich are evil and stupid: obviously, infected by Chinese greed, the local Oknhas have not the slightest notion about intelligent urban design. They cannot seem to conceive of an aesthetic or pragmatic plan for even the briefest instant, I regret to observe. Why not place that edifice a couple kilometers up or down the river? You can still have a nice view, and surround the building with a parkland, too... This place is going to be way too big, you would agree with me if you saw it, I am pretty sure: there is a painting of the finished condo on the wall outside... It's very VERY tall, taller than Trump... But of course, the scurvy-ridden officials took a big piece of change to lease that prime land to whichever greedy but stupid hoodlum came up with enough dough for them...
[i]Shhhhhh[/i], they won't announce who they are, or where they live... Same thing as happened in Sihanoukville: police proxies bought and sold most of the land to the idiotic Chinese gangsters who built many small casinos or unfinished hulks, and as you know, most not having proper inside connections have fled a year later... The ex-police chief built a gigantic mansion on the new avenue down to the beach, using the money he got from his nephew's take on large-scale drug importation kick-backs...
A lot of bad stuff happens in government here: when an important council minister wants to fly to Europe on "official" business, his requisition form for the price of the first class ticket is $7,000 dollars. That is a fact: I met a man who used to work in the Ministry of Justice and he quit in disgust at all the graft and nepotism: uneducated nephews and nieces get jobs they have no education to perform in all the ministries, which is one big reason nothing gets done here in Cambodia. Did you know that?
(BTW, you should see, ironically, Prek Treng (Hun Sen) Beach and how lovely it is... It's located near Sihanoukville, after the port about 7 kms northeast of town. There are always three or four ladies raking the evergreen needles off the sand and bundling them up. The water is clean and swimmable, and best of all -- there is nobody there except a few locals now and then, and only a few more on weekends... The back-packers never discovered it, so nobody knows it exists... The ironies of Cambodia are many...)