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New hotel zone to increase capacity for Games
(Volume 26, No. 513)
NAY Pyi Taw is set to get a new Hotel Zone to provide extra room capacity in anticipation of Myanmar hosting the 2013 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, officials and developers have told The Myanmar Times.
“The new Hotel Zone is going to be implemented in Oattadathiri township, in the northern part of Nay Pyi Taw, near Mount Pleasant Hotel. The first stage will see 19 hotels constructed in the new Hotel Zone,” U Than Oo, director of Nay Pyi Taw City Development Committee’s Building Department, said last month.
A further eight hotels are under construction in or around the city’s present Hotel Zone and Nay Pyi Taw should have at least 35 hotels by 2013, the deadline set by the government, he said.
‘The first stage will see 19 hotels constructed in the new Hotel Zone.’
It is likely more projects will be completed before the SEA Games and the committee is inviting developers to submit proposals for projects in the new zone.
He said interest has so far been strong with several confirmed projects and the committee will speed up the approval process so construction can begin as soon as possible to give developers the best chance of meeting the SEA Games deadline. Developers will be allocated 10 acres of land in the new zone for each approved project.
There are also several projects underway in Nay Pyi Taw’s original Hotel Zone, on Yazathingaha Road in Detkinathiri township, in the southern part of the city. Two new hotels – Tawwin Nay Pyi Taw and Nanwati – should be completed before the end of the year, taking the total in the original zone to 10.
Hotel and shopping mall projects have also been approved on the other side of Yazathingaha Road, next to the original Hotel Zone. Construction work on most of these began last month and they should be finished sometime in 2011, U Than Oo said.
“There are nine new plots along Yazathingaha Road near the old Hotel Zone. Hotels and shopping malls in this area have been allocated 15.88 acres per project,” he said.
This was confirmed by a construction director from one of the projects on Yazathingaha Road.
“We are instructed to finish our construction projects in 2011,” he said.
“So, we have only about 18 months to finish the projects. The new hotels are part of the preparations for Nay Pyi Taw to host the 2013 SEA Games. For this event, many new hotels will be needed in the city.”
The first project in this area, Junction Center Nay Pyi Taw, opened on plot one last year. Capital Hypermarket Nay Pyi Taw will be constructed on plot two, under a joint venture project between army-owned Myanmar Economic Corporation and Pac Link Trading, the company that produces Premier coffee and Tomo instant noodles.
Manpyitakun Construc-tion is developing Flight Café and Sky Blue Hotel on plot three. Part of the development will see a former Myanma Airways jet that crashed at Sittwe last year converted into a café.
Myint Family is undertaking a shopping mall and hotel development in plot four, while G4 Group is building a six-storey, “five-star” hotel on both plots five and six.
Plot seven and eight will see six-storey hotels built by developers Myanmar and Asia Express respectively, while Naungton is building the Tongapuri Hotel on plot nine.
