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It was recently renamed again to the original name, the six storey building is now a 5 star hotel overlooking the Bạch Đằng Quay and Saigon River. It is owned by the state-owned Saigon Tourist. Saigon Tourist announced a 1.9 trillion VND expansion project of the Majestic Hotel in July 2011. It plans to construct two towers of 24 and 27 ...
The Saigon River (Vietnamese: Sông Sài Gòn) is a river located in southern Vietnam that rises near Phum Daung in southeastern Cambodia, flows south and southeast for about 230 km (140 mi) and empties into the Nhà Bè River, which in its turn empties into the South China Sea some 20 km (12 mi) northeast of the Mekong Delta.
Landmark 81 is a supertall skyscraper in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. [1] It is primarily invested and developed by Vinhomes, the largest Vietnamese real-estate developer.. Landmark 81 holds the position of the tallest building in Vietnam, the second tallest building in Southeast Asia, as well as the seventeenth tallest building in the world o
The park stretches along the right bank of Saigon River from the Saigon River Tunnel to Ba Son Bridge, opposite to Bạch Đằng Quay park on the left bank. [2] There are plans to extend the park from the Ba Son Bridge to the Thu Thiem Bridge, the extend section is called Creative Park (Công viên Sáng Tạo). [3] [4] [5]
Following the Fall of Saigon in April 1975 ownership of the hotel was taken over by the Ho Chi Minh City Government and Tự Do Street was renamed Đồng Khởi Street. The hotel was closed in 1976 [1] and reopened again in 1986. The hotel was completely restored from 1988-9 [1] and reopened in 1989 as the Hotel Continental.
Saigon Centre provides over 46,000 m 2 (500,000 sq ft) of office space across 10 floors (from 5 to 14) in Tower 1 and 18 floors in Tower 2 (from 8 to 25). [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Some of notable tenants here are AIG , Deutsche Bank , Mitsubishi Corporation (Reprsentative Office in HCMC), Yuanta Securities in Tower 1 and AIA Group , Lazada , Sanyo , Shopee ...
The project is funded by Saigon M&C and Dong A Bank, with a budget of approximately $228 million USD. The tower covers 6,800 square metres (1.7 acres; 0.68 ha) of land on the bank of the Saigon River. The tower's construction started in 2007 and was expected to be completed in 2012.
According to scholar Pétrus Ký, the waterfront area at the end of rue Catinat was once called Bến Ngự (translating to "royal wharf"), the royal landing stage. He also revealed that it was known in Khmer as Compong-luong, [3] which suggests that its history may date back to the 17th century, when Saigon was still the Cambodian settlement of Prey Nokor.