Suan Lum bazaar to close?
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A Bangkok court has officially ordered the popular Suan Lum Night Bazaar closed, Bangkok Post reported.
The next step would be to force out the hundreds of tenants to clear the land for what appears to be the building of a mall and hotel complex, the report said.
Any tenants who refuse to leave the hugely popular night market next to Lumpini Park could face “seizure, arrest or imprisonment,” the Crown Property Bureau said in an advertisement notice printed in several Thai-language newspapers.
When the Crown Property Bureau signed a long-term lease on a large chunk of the site with mall developer Central Pattana last year, many newspapers reported that Central proposed to build Thailand’s tallest building, a hotel and a shopping mall on the site, a former military academy.
There are reportedly 3,000 shops, restaurants and snack bars in the complex, and the Joe Louis Puppet Theatre, a unique attraction.
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