The city Department of Planning and Architecture has unveiled plans to renovate the Saigon's bank on the Thu Duc City side of the river.
It will be done along a 50-m-wide section on the 830 m stretch between the Ba Son Bridge and the Thu Thiem Tunnel.
To lie across the river from the Bach Dang Wharf Park in District 1, the site that will get a facelift now lacks roads and is overrun by weeds.
A small road there will be upgraded into one 28 m wide and three kilometers long.
The pier in the photo above will be upgraded to serve both cargo transport and tourism.
The department plans to solicit private investment for the work, which it hopes to finish this year so that there will be a new-look peninsula before New Year 2024.
A park next to the riverbank on Thu Thiem Peninsula.
The renovation will add more items to this park to beautify it and also offer more entertainment options for locals.
The Congregation of the Holy Cross Lovers built in 1840 and Thu Thiem Church built in 1859. Sprawling over some four hectares, they have French-style architecture.
In 1840 nuns of the congregation, while fleeing invaders, came to the Thu Thiem area. They set up a monastery here in a makeshift house.
The Ho Chi Minh City Planning Exhibition Center, which has remained half-built since 2013, is 500 m away from An Khanh Temple, which has existed since the 17th century and undergone several restorations.
The exhibition center was supposed to open in 2015 and become an icon of the Thu Thiem New Urban Area in the heart of the newly-established Thu Duc City, a "city within a city."
But since 2019 its construction has remained "80% complete" following disagreements between the city and the contractor.
