Olympic Stadium to be Gutted?
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Re: Olympic Stadium to be Gutted?
Such a shame, it's a great venue used by so many in a city where open space to exercise is already limited. Already underfunded and under equipped Cambodia National athletes will now train (and live, in some cases) where?
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That was predicted on here when they started developing the edges, and totally sucks if it's true. Somehow it won't surprise me. They've just got to figure out a way of developing all those pagodas and national schools next, maybe they can relocate them out to the provinces so we can have more banks and shopping centers in town.
That's a bit of a stretch, they've done damn all restoration on that complex since it was built. It's just been given the odd lick of paint.Following years of neglect, the complex has now been restored.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
I knew that it wouldnt survive.
So many people exercise there and it is the HQ for many minor sports.
Phnom penh will be ruined pretty soon by the greedy elite.
No much happening with the boeung kak land,who was ever going to buy all those shophouses?
So many people exercise there and it is the HQ for many minor sports.
Phnom penh will be ruined pretty soon by the greedy elite.
No much happening with the boeung kak land,who was ever going to buy all those shophouses?
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Likewise Day Krahom and the land around it. What is so galling is the land isn't even being developed so people are being evicted for no good reason. Disgusting. The "rich people" who clear this land for development are fucking muppets with not an ounce of actual smarts about how to develop residential land. They also seem to have forgotten that the 2006/7 land boom is over. Morons. Luckily all these revolting robber barons will be reincarnated as cockroaches...ken svay wrote:I knew that it wouldnt survive.
So many people exercise there and it is the HQ for many minor sports.
Phnom penh will be ruined pretty soon by the greedy elite.
No much happening with the boeung kak land,who was ever going to buy all those shophouses?
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True. I was driving down Norodom last night and was astonished at the number of ugly empty lots where grand colonial villas once stood having been knocked down seemingly for fun.
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Only one positive thing will come out of this, less traffic on the road past Lucky (Monireth?)
Wasn't the land near the stadium a designated site for the Olympic Committee? Kind of ironic, but very logical move. Glad to see the poor youthare being considered.
Wasn't the land near the stadium a designated site for the Olympic Committee? Kind of ironic, but very logical move. Glad to see the poor youthare being considered.
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I don't think there's any "in conjunction" about it, the high(est) level in government is one and the same as OCIC.Canadia’s Bank Overseas Cambodian Investment Corporation. (OCIC). It appears the bank, in conjunction with someone at a high level within the Cambodian government,
If Canadia is involved, I am sure that it will be great.
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They are currently building the Olympic Committee HQ on the site, as well as a load of apartments and a shopping center that were only announced much later. Good to know that this committee will have a nice modern HQ, while the athletes have nowhere to train, and get almost zero funding to compete internationally. Any international competitions that Cambodia enters end up having about 40 sports officials and a handful of athletes who have no chance of winning anything as they are too impoverished to eat properly or afford decent equipment.vladimir wrote: Wasn't the land near the stadium a designated site for the Olympic Committee?
The plan seems to be for a new sports stadium out on Chruoy Changva, obviously completely useless for most of the city's population who live far from there.
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Any chance of Phnom Penh's civil society organising any significant opposition to this? The place is a major landmark and is used by thousands of Khmers for everyday exercise as well as hosting major events.
There are plans to build a large complex on Chroy Changva. Perhaps once they have this replacement they go ahead with "redevelopment"?
There are plans to build a large complex on Chroy Changva. Perhaps once they have this replacement they go ahead with "redevelopment"?
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wtf have you been smoking? Civil society? The most selfish bastards itfw, maybe.ali baba wrote:Any chance of Phnom Penh's civil society
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BS, they will knock down the old one, then never build the new one as they'll eventually figure out that it will cost too much.ali baba wrote: There are plans to build a large complex on Chroy Changva. Perhaps once they have this replacement they go ahead with "redevelopment"?
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There is a master plan.
1) Demolish the Olympic Stadium.
2) Build lots of banks and tall buildings.
3) Bid for the Olympics.
1) Demolish the Olympic Stadium.
2) Build lots of banks and tall buildings.
3) Bid for the Olympics.
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