~ Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui. ~
The Vietnam News

[Year 1997]
[Year 1998]
[Year 1999]
[Year 2000]
[Year 2001]
[Year 2002]

Saigon South new city

After nine years of construction, the details of the blueprint for the Saigon South New City as a satellite of HCM City are being developed. The Saigon South New City will provide ideal accommodations for Saigonese and expatriates.

The 409-hectare center of Phu My Hung (Section A) in the Saigon South New City is designed to be home to between 100,000 and 120,000 residents. According to Phu My Hung Joint Venture Company, the developer of the Saigon South residential project, if nonresident people-such as students, workers and tourists-are taken into account, the total population of this city in the future may reach 500,000. Customers can sign installment contracts to buy land or houses in this urban area.

However, up to 70% of the customers have chosen the one-off payment method. Estate prices in Phu My Hung are rather high compared with average rates of land in Vietnam, but this new residential area has attracted the interest of many. The city has been carefully zoned and designed with sound infrastructure. Customers are provided with legal documents for land-use rights and house ownership. Possible increases in estate prices is also a factor which has urged customers to buy land and houses in Phu My Hung. According to Phu My Hung sales experts, better economic life prompts people's needs for better things. "This is a modern residential area which has been designed to provide residents with a comfortable life in a green and clean space supported by many other conveniences," they say. Public services and works in the Saigon South New City are really attractive to customers. The Saigon South semi-public school is located on a 2-hectare plot of land in the heart of the city.

Currently, 428 pupils and students there are attending classes of kindergarten, elementary and junior high school. The school was officially transferred to the management of the HCM City Service of Education and Training. Some 100 foreign students of different nationalities are attending the Saigon South International School, which has been operational since 1997. Other schools for some foreign communities are also available in the Saigon South New City such as the Korean and Japanese schools. Besides existing infrastructure such as a nine-hole golf course, driving range, tennis courts, swimming pools, and a football stadium, other service facilities in the Saigon South New City are under construction. The 4,647-square meter Saigon South Coop Mart, for instance, will come into operation by the end of this year. The construction of the Franco-Vietnamese Hospital with 200 beds was started in September last year and will be serviceable by 2003. The Saigon South New City is the first large-scale urban project to be realized by Central Trading & Development Corporation of Taiwan in partnership with the Tan Thuan Industrial Promotion Corporation (IPC).

Information on projects in the Saigon South New City

Phu My Hung JV Company has completed the construction of:
Apartments: My Canh (200 apartments), My An (200), Hung Vuong I (354)
Detached houses and terraced houses: My Hung (65) and My Hoang (47)
Plots of land (for customers to build houses): Nam Thien I, Nam Long, Hung Gia I, Hung Phuoc, My Toan and My Phuoc.

Works under construction:
My Hao: 46 detached and semi-detached houses (area ranging from 279 to 369 square meters).
My Phuoc Apartment Bloc: 94 apartments (98-204 square meters).
My Khanh I High-rise: two 13-story towers with 76 apartments.
My Toan I & II terraced houses: 3 or 4 story-houses.

By Ngoc Huong - The Saigon Times Weekly - September 07, 2002.