Development Update Feb 2010

A few little notes from around, a few updates.

Paragon, Feb 2007:



Paragon, 2010:



Saigon Pearl, Feb 2008:



Saigon Pearl, August 2009



Pearl is a real blot on the landscape, an ugly concrete monster. Manor 2 is rising next to it, and this is the site of the first underpass in the city (that I can think of).

Riverside, Nguyen Luong Bang, August 2009:



Riverside, Feb 2010



Sunrise City, Feb 2010:





February 2008:



Now this whole area is turing into a new urban development, on the road out to Phu My Hung from District 4 (Nguyen Huu Tho):





As this article in Thanh Nien tells us:

The Novaland Real Estate Investment Joint Stock Co. has also claimed that a 400-squaremeter apartment at its Sunrise City project has been sold to popular pop singer Cam Ly at more than $1 million and a penthouse for around $5 million to singer Dam Vinh Hung.

The company advertises its apartments in District 7 as “the best constructions in HCMC.

I have yet to visit the location of 'Diamond Island', but it is one of the most talked about projects in the city. Thanh Nien says:

Around 25 percent of 700 apartments in the project are priced at more than US$1 million and around 15 of them are between $2-3 million.

Son said all the six $3 million apartments in the project on the banks of the Saigon River in District 2 have been sold, and that in fact there were more than six people wanting to buy them.

Son said his project has sold 40 percent of apartments worth $1-2 million.

Pictures from Diamond Island construction as soon as I have them, and after we move in of course.

Finally, another project in the Phu My Hung urban area, Dragon City. This one slighty south of the main area.