The Spring Festival falls relatively late this year, on February 20th. It is now the end of January, and Sun Dahai estimates that the investment matters will not be formally discussed until after the Spring Festival.
So he stopped caring about them and concentrated on discussing something that would cost a lot of money with Qiao Hongwei, who had just arrived in the capital.
When Sun Dahai was in Xiangjiang the year before last, he discovered that the staff of the two companies had expanded and the office area was very crowded. The two-story office building of Huanyu Trading Company was already overcrowded.
Because land prices in Xiangjiang are high, people in Xiangjiang are accustomed to small office and living environments. But Sun Dahai, an upstart, is no longer willing.
It happened that Zhou Haibing took advantage of the exchange rate changes to earn a small amount of money for the company. So when Sun Dahai left Xiangjiang, he asked Qiao Hongwei to find a better office building and improve the company's office conditions.
Qiao Hongwei also knew that the company now had a lot of money, and Sun Dahai was not a stingy person. Since he specifically said it, he would do it himself.
Qiao Hongwei not only arranged for the company's administrative staff to go out to look at houses, but also greeted his partner Antai Real Estate and asked them to help find suitable houses.
Antai Real Estate is indeed a leader in the real estate industry. It quickly introduced several office buildings to build the future, including Antai Real Estate's own projects and projects of their partners.
In the end, Qiao Hongwei settled on a project of Antai Real Estate in Queen's Road East in Central, where he could rent out the entire floor. The usable area is about 17,000 square feet, or about 1,500 square meters.
Half of the floor is used by the two companies building the future, and the other half is used by Huanyu Trading Company.
Because of the joining of Michael Benson, Huanyu Trading Company has opened up its business in the American continent, so now the number of employees has reached more than 150 people.
The company's original office building area was adjusted according to the time difference between America and Asia, and two people took turns using each workstation. Now we can finally work normally.
Huanyu Trading Company's own two-story building is temporarily used by the trading team. The building has a total area of 4,000 square feet, and the floor area is approximately 15 square meters.
After renovation, the second floor is a rest area and six bedrooms, and the first floor is a work area to accommodate the closed trading of the trading team after the increase in personnel.
The trading team used to work on the sixth floor of Ba Fu Garden, but due to the increase in staff, it was no longer suitable for their work requirements. Now that Huanyu Trading Company has moved to a new office building, the trading team took the opportunity to change the site.
The office space originally rented by Erection Future has been withdrawn. Several short-selling companies registered in Xiangjiang have all moved to the sixth floor of Bafu Garden.
Lawyer Yu Kaihao finally had his own independent office. I wonder if he shed tears of happiness after moving to the new location.
After the New Year, Mr. Huo, the general manager of Antai Real Estate, came to Qiao Hongwei and told him a message.
Antai Real Estate currently has a project in hand, and the customer's capital chain has been broken. In order to prevent losses, several banks that provide loans have frozen all the customer's projects through n.
Now the client intends to sell the project under construction to ensure that other projects in his hands will not be greatly affected.
The project is located on Queensway on Hong Kong Island, which is considered the core area of Xiangjiang. This was originally the location of Britten's barracks stationed in Xiangjiang. Now the barracks have been moved out and all the land has been auctioned off.
Because most of the land in this area has been purchased by Antai Real Estate's rival, the veteran real estate developer Swire Real Estate in Britten, and has been unified planned. According to common practice, Antai Real Estate will not open its own projects here.
Mr. Fok, the general manager of Antai Real Estate, is a member of the Fok family in Hong Kong. Through the Lan Kwai Fong development project, he became a partner with Erection Future.
He knew that before setting up the future, he was looking for office buildings to rent, and that the company was not weak and had huge cash flow, so he came to persuade the future setting up to acquire this project.
The acquisition of this project by Erection Future has many benefits for Antai Real Estate. First of all, the relationship between the two parties is very good. If Erection Future's project acquisition is successful, the contractor will most likely still be Antai Real Estate, and there will be no change.
Secondly, although Antai Properties will no longer open its own projects here in accordance with the unspoken rules of the industry, it is still necessary to cause some trouble to its rival Swire Properties. This will prevent this land from being taken over by Swire Properties and enlarging their portfolio.
project.
Qiao Hongwei figured out Sun Dahai's thoughts and expected that he would be interested in this project, so he called Sun Dahai in time to report the situation.
Sun Dahai was indeed moved. After hearing Qiao Hongwei's introduction, he estimated that this place was next to Pacific Place on Queensway in his previous life. To put it bluntly, this place could make money by buying it and building toilets. Of course he would not let it go.
Pass.
Sun Dahai asked Qiao Hongwei to personally take charge of this matter, obtain relevant information about the project as soon as possible, clarify the seller's conditions, and then go to the capital for interviews.
Now, Qiao Hongwei brought the project information to the capital, and Sun Dahai put aside other things and started studying with Qiao Hongwei seriously.
Sun Dahai read the information, and as expected, this project is adjacent to the future Pacific Place.
The land area is more than 70,000 square feet, which will exceed ten acres. According to the original plan, the entire project is an office building with 33 floors above ground and three floors underground.
Main building: The floor area is 19,000 square feet, and the usable area is about 1,400 square meters. The underground part is a two-story underground garage and an equipment floor.
In the above-ground part, the first floor is the lobby, and the second floor is the property area. The third floor is the public meeting floor, and the fourth floor is not called the fourth floor, but the rest floor. It is also the refuge floor of this ultra-tall building.
Further up, the 13th and 23rd floors are also equipment floors, and the 14th and 24th floors are also rest areas and serve as refuge floors.
On both sides of the main building, four-story auxiliary buildings extend out, which are built in a twisting and turning manner. They are combined with the greening on the ground to make full use of every area of the land.
The annex building will be where the ground floor businesses are located. The target customers are banks, clubs, restaurants, bars, and even a new multiplex cinema is designed.
The design drawing was designed by a well-known foreign architect. Every detail was carefully considered and the rendering was very avant-garde. Sun Dahai was very satisfied with it.
The total project investment is US$200 million, of which the land price is US$1.5 billion, and the rest is design fees and construction engineering costs.
At present, the foundation part of the project has been completed, but due to the n restriction order, the project is in a state of suspension. Antai Real Estate has no better way and can only wait for the project to be lifted.
Qiao Hongwei held several negotiations with the other party and the bank, and everyone has accepted the bidding process for future participation in this project.
Currently, companies interested in acquiring this project include Swire Properties and another real estate company, in addition to Building Future.
Among them, Erection Future has the most advantage because they do not need to overhaul the project design, and they are mainly for self-use and rental. They do not have much competition with Swire Properties and are also highly recommended by Antai Properties. 11
