Jodds Market ordered to close down after big blaze

[reader]

From Coconuts Bangkok

A popular market fair is ordered to close down after a fire had completely destroyed over 120 shops.

The Huai Khwang district office has ordered the shutdown of the Jodd Fairs market behind Central Plaza Rama IX until renovations are completed when a fire broke out on Wednesday afternoon.

Investigators are still trying to find out the cause of the fire, which destroyed over four blocks of the market. Police believe the fire was caused by an electrical short circuit.

The Jodds Market fair is a popular tourist night market, home to over 700 shops full of food, drinks, and fashion boutique stores. A second Jodds Fair market opened in May of this year at the former Dan Neramit amusement park, offering similar food items and clothing, with lots of bean bags for customers to rest in the open green field and numerous photo spots for social media.

[macaroni21]

59 minutes ago, reader said:

The Jodds Market fair is a popular tourist night market

I had never even heard of it. But a quick check with Google Maps shows that it is quite accessible, being a skip and hop from Rama IX MRT station. Oh well, too late, now.

[reader]

2 minutes ago, macaroni21 said:

 Oh well, too late, now.

Good news, Mac.

An updated article reports that the market should be reopening in less than a month!

[fedssocr]

that whole area looks quite interesting. Apparently there are many new highrise apartments there that are not too expensive.

[PeterRS]

9 hours ago, fedssocr said:

that whole area looks quite interesting. Apparently there are many new highrise apartments there that are not too expensive.

Would these be some of the many apartment blocks built by local developers pre-covid particularly to attract Chinese buyers - and some from Hong Kong and Singapore as well? Very small by farang standards - probably around 30 sq. meters or thereabouts? (There is a thread about this somewhere!)

[fedssocr]

I think most of the new high rises in Bangkok have fairly small apartments. Certainly the studios and 1 bedrooms are on the small side. The Airbnb I stayed in at Ashton Chula was a small studio. But they provide lots of nice public areas - big gyms, co-working spaces, party rooms, etc.