PP is ready for 133 storey twin towers - tallest building in SEA.

mammothboy2 · Post by **mammothboy2** » Sun Sep 11, 2016 10:48 am

One's immediate reaction is vicarious fury - "How dare they build this when lots of people don't have clean water / places to live / medical coverage" but then a little sense emerges ... think of how many quite poor rural people
will come to build this and how much in wages they will be paid - and other people will sell them rice and noodles
and so on.

Certainly hundreds, and possibly thousands, of jobs will be created for the poor, plus lots of people will learn
better-paying skills like tiling, electricity and plumbing.

bolueeleh · Post by **bolueeleh** » Sun Sep 11, 2016 11:47 am

timmydownawell wrote:How ridiculous. Can't they build it in Singapore or Hong Kong where it wouldn't be a total white elephant?

even in singapore there is downward pressure on office space rentals n residential prices, not trying to be an arse but khmer need to learn a hard lesson on property bubbles

Bertros · Post by **Bertros** » Sun Sep 11, 2016 12:11 pm

believe it when I see it. there's 4 really big buildings going up just north of the Oly. stadium.
In fact, from my condo windows I can see 6+ big buildings going up.

quite a building boom to be sure.

Can't figure they'll be able to fill them all up

cheers

Bertros

timmydownawell · Post by **timmydownawell** » Sun Sep 11, 2016 12:20 pm

bolueeleh wrote:not trying to be an arse but khmer need to learn a hard lesson on property bubbles

They'll be getting that in spades, with or without this project.

Anchor Moy · Post by **Anchor Moy** » Sun Sep 11, 2016 2:26 pm

Previous thread about this from Feb 2016 :
https://cambodiaexpatsonline.com/newswor ... t7791.html

timmydownawell · Post by **timmydownawell** » Sun Sep 11, 2016 2:33 pm

Anchor Moy wrote:Previous thread about this from Feb 2016 :
https://cambodiaexpatsonline.com/newswor ... t7791.html

BKL was right in that thread, this is one incredibly ugly building. If you want to make a statement with a tall building, at least make it slender and sexy. This one looks like it was designed by a 6yo with some lego blocks.

vladimir · Post by **vladimir** » Sun Sep 11, 2016 3:00 pm

mammothboy2 wrote:One's immediate reaction is vicarious fury - "How dare they build this when lots of people don't have clean water / places to live / medical coverage" but then a little sense emerges ... think of how many quite poor rural people
will come to build this and how much in wages they will be paid - and other people will sell them rice and noodles
and so on.

Certainly hundreds, and possibly thousands, of jobs will be created for the poor, plus lots of people will learn
better-paying skills like tiling, electricity and plumbing.

Oh, yes, the favourite response of dodgy developers, trickle-down economics, aka piss on the poor economics. How's that working out for the poor in America and Europe? Joke.

People will learn better-paying skills? Yeah, right. They will bring in fully-competent workmen, most of whom will be Vietnamese immigrants and they will pay local apprentices/hired labour minimum wage to work in extremely dangerous conditions.

You forgot to mention how rents/services/etc will rise in the surrounding area, which will mostly benefit the rich.

And when the building is finished - if it is ever finished (witness fool's Gold Tower), they will simply be told to bugger off.

Let's call a spade a spade, right, or in this case a trowel.

frank lee bent · Post by **frank lee bent** » Sun Sep 11, 2016 3:14 pm

all the big projects use builders from China. i think the locals do not have the skills.
plus, the money and engineering comes from China, so how could they communicate with local workers?

Anchor Moy · Post by **Anchor Moy** » Sun Sep 11, 2016 3:38 pm

frank lee bent wrote:all the big projects use builders from China. i think the locals do not have the skills.
plus, the money and engineering comes from China, so how could they communicate with local workers?

Imagine how many workers they will need to bring in for a project that size .

mammothboy2 · Post by **mammothboy2** » Sun Sep 11, 2016 5:48 pm

Yes, AM

And their wages will boost the incomes of the local poor

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