The Jigsaw Condominium slot in “the piece that fulfils your life”

Standing on four conjoined plots totalling close to one rai of land, The Jigsaw rests in the centre of the “live-work-play ecosystem” that is the Chiang Mai Business Park. Having more in common with an urban village and little touched by motorised or foot traffic, the CBP offers condo residents a good mix of commercial, leisure and retail affairs on their doorstep. Outside of 24/7 7-Elevens, bank branches, coffee shops (a few of which -like the StartUp Café- are open all day and all night), dental clinics, independent pharmacies, sundry dining spots, serviced wash shops, coin laundries and dry cleaners, the Business Park’s convenient for the home décor, furniture and household appliances store, Index Living Mall and, to top it all off, the biggest and the cheapest hypermarket in town, Big C Extra; carrying a profuse choice of everyday and imported provisions, personal care items, clothing and footwear, electrical and electronic devices not to mention a spacious and sensibly priced food court, bill payment facilities and, in the parking lot at the back on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, an awesome open-air night market with stalls shifting an assortment of trendy threads not to mention garden-fresh produce, takeaway domestic dishes, Asian bites and western eats.It is also close to My Hip condo, Hillside Payap condo, The Treasure condo, V Resident and One Plus Business.

Because the CBP’s framed on three sides by major roads, travel from The Jigsaw to destinations downtown or else further afield is easy as pie! No more than a quarter of an hour on foot is the Chiang Mai-Doi Saket Road and 10 minutes onward, the fab Kad Sam Yaek wet market in neighbouring San Sai district; similarly distant is the Somphot Chiang Mai 700 Pi Road by way of Payap University’s Mae Khao campus with its secluded streamside setting and Sirindhorn Learning Resource Centre for arguably the best Thai language course in Chiang Mai; most accessibly of all, mere seconds drive away from the condo lies the southbound carriageway of the Chiang Mai-Lampang Frontage Road (Super Highway) so residents can reach the likes of Bangkok Hospital and the wholesale marvel, Makro inside of a few minutes before turning down Charoen Muang Road for the train station and across the Ping River straight to Tha Phae Gate.

On the subject of conveyance, Chiang Mai’s Provincial Arcade transport station is too but a 15 minute saunter from The Jigsaw condo; for getting around the municipality, residents can prevail upon the waiting blue and yellow licensed cabs, motorbike taxis, white city buses, red songthaew and tuk tuk whereas to cover more ground, single- and double-decker coaches ply destinations elsewhere in Northern Thailand plus Isaan and Central regions, Bangkok, Hua Hin, down to the island of Phuket and even internationally across to Laos! And to pass the time before embarking on their ride, passengers can chow down at any of the many nearby mom and pop holes in the wall or, right next to bus terminal 3, at Star Avenue Lifestyle Mall.

But for the definitive shopping experience in the North, CentralFestival can be walked from The Jigsaw condo in roughly 20 minutes. Stretching to half a dozen floors, the technologically advanced but effortlessly navigable retail complex accommodates over 300 shops and eateries and anchors a Central Department Store, the “World Class” Central Food Hall supermarket, a high-tech multiplex cinema [movie theatre] with IMAX and Ultra screen-equipped auditoria, Chiang Mai’s sole ice-skating rink [Sub-Zero], a Virgin Active fitness club and, properly useful for folks without their own vehicle, complimentary minivans and songthaew which run daily to selected hotels throughout each of Nimman, the ‘Old City’, the Night Bazaar and Chiang Mai Airport.