OK, I've split up my existing thread about building a couple of mini-resorts in Phuket into two separate threads. This thread follows the build of what I will call The City Resort, because the location of the project is suburban and only about 250 metres from Phuket International Airport.
If you want to follow the progress of my other project, (which is owned by my ex), check out the thread 'Building a mini-resort in Phuket - The Country Resort'
To recap from the previous, combined thread about these projects, here's a photo of the City Resort location:
The land is bordered on 2 sides by a small road, and the building in the background is accomodation for airport workers. As can be seen, my land is quite flat, and already cleared and ready to build on.
The timeline for the City Resort project is lagging that of my ex by about 1 month. This is because the funding for both projects comes from the sale of our joint ownership of Phuket Airport Hotel. My ex sold out a few months ago and I sold out only about 5 weeks ago.
For the City Project, the land lease contract is now signed and registered with the land office. The electricity authority have been asked to install the 3 phase supply and meter on the land, and this should start to take place in a week or two. The well (for supplying water to guest showers and toilets) will be dug in the 1st week of October, since the well-diggers have just completed construction of the well at the Country Resort project.
The first task is to build a boundary wall around the land, and the workers will start this task next week, after they finish building of a similar wall at the other project.
The plans for this project have been given to the OrBorTor and payment made - and formal approval of the plans is expected in about 2 weeks.
After wall and well construction starts next week, I'll take some more photos.
Simon