Chapter 334: Hudson Yards Project
For the next period of time, nothing happened.
While coordinating the handling work, Ye Dongqing traveled around the San Francisco Bay Area, and even went to the Pebble Beach Golf Course in central California to accompany several celebrities in Silicon Valley on vacation.
After running on both sides of New York and Silicon Valley, he helped Zhao Liuli sign up for a Boy Scout activity, and accompanied his classmates to participate in a half-month field life training near Camp David.
After showing his fist a little, no one has been forcing him to share the cake for a while, and the warning to the KKR Group has long been spread in the circle, so that no one does that kind of thankless thing anymore, if he succeeds in forcing Ye Dongqing to a desperate situation, but he is kicked out of the financing list in the end, wouldn't it be a wedding dress for others?
In addition, Facebook's overseas expansion has encountered some resistance, the European Union is investigating its information security, and people feel that the valuation of 15 billion US dollars has little profit prospects.
Affected by the crisis in previous years, investors are more cautious, Facebook is quite profitable, but in their minds it is almost the same as Google, and after this valuation, it is no longer worth using tricks in their minds, and their enthusiasm has decreased a lot.
After a period of growth for more than a year, the Nasdaq market has recently returned to calm, and the only small climax is Google's listing, which did not rise much that year, rushing to more than $26 billion, and almost fell below the issue price in the next few days, and Tamsui Investment Group got four percent of the shares in the IPO stage, because there was no better investment target.
Coffee stocks, medical stocks, plus a few Internet companies, Freshwater Investment Group has recently invested a large part of the cash in its hands, and has made a new round of investment in Facebook and Whatsapp, giving them money to advertise to expand the market, and also injected a billion dollars into the Huaxia branch to find potential stocks worth investing in.
At this time in the second half of 2004, Huaxia was just a large factory in the minds of American investors, the kind that could make itself profitable, and under such a large environmental impact, Washington was also paralyzed, naively thinking that with the impact of foreign capital, it could lead to changes in the social form of that country, and only Ye Dongqing knew that it was impossible for the time being.
It is difficult to find high-return targets in the United States, so he has once again set his sights on China, mainly focusing on the Internet industry.
According to Ye Dongqing's meaning, the big head is in the United States, the small head is in China, and some are also arranged in Europe, basically he is stable in his life, he mainly spent time in New York in September, and then he was bored at home, and went to Brazil and Argentina in South America to go shopping, and waited until mid-October, when he unexpectedly learned that in the financial district west of Manhattan, there was a piece of land being sold, quoted at 1.29 billion US dollars, which immediately made him interested.
October 16th.
He flew in a helicopter to inspect the land for sale, where the state of New York tried to compete with London for the 2012 Summer Olympics and planned to build a large stadium, but the super-rich mayor seemed to be wavering recently due to opposition from New Yorkers, and since he called him to say that it could be sold, it almost meant that the city hall had decided to withdraw from the Olympic bid.
According to the trajectory of previous generations, London did get the right to host the 2012 Summer Olympics, and now it seems that the plan has changed, and Mayor Bloomberg intends to use the land to create a "city of the future", which is also the largest urban renewal development in New York City since Rockefeller Center, bringing together entertainment, leisure and commerce.
A piece of land half the size of Manhattan Park, of course, cannot be sold to Ye Dongqing, with a total area of 10.5 hectares, in the planning will be built a large shopping plaza, a cultural center, six skyscrapers, benchmarking the new high-rise planning of the core area of London, the requirement is that the building is advanced enough, cool enough, to re-establish New York's status as a global financial core area.
According to the super-rich mayor, Manhattan has become old, London has redeveloped more than 40 percent of the stock of property since 1985, while New York is only 7 percent, so New York will no longer be the first choice for multinational headquarters, so there is this Far West redevelopment plan, as the last piece of land in Midtown Manhattan that can be developed on a large scale, Hudson Yards is positioned very high, near the Hudson River west of Manhattan, next to several piers.
As a "person of the future", Ye Dongqing knows that this commercial complex has a high probability of development, and it is very good-looking, it is all new buildings, it will not be as crowded as other places, and the heart is certain, and he can already imagine what his building will look like after it is built, and he can overlook the entire Manhattan Island, and even see Brooklyn and Queens all the way.
It's only been a few months, and his mind is alive again, the project design drawings have been completed, and he can start construction at any time, as for the funds, he doesn't need to worry too much, he can take out a loan first.
After looking around in the air several times, the more I looked at it, the more I felt that it was very good, and it was the land of New York City Hall, which meant that it could reduce taxes, or reduce the transaction price, and maybe even negotiate the terms of installment payment, which was much better than the last time I talked about the land, which was both large and empty.
At this moment, he told the driver through the microphone: "Okay, fly down town, I'm going to the city hall to talk to the mayor in person." ”
The driver made an OK gesture and arrived at his destination a few minutes later and began to land in the park.
Went for a walk around the southern hemisphere.
Ye Dongqing was a little tanned, and he shaved a lot, and now he can see some stubble, which has become rough and hard.
Just this year, the net worth first exceeded 10 billion US dollars, and now it has exceeded 20 billion US dollars, and has successively invested in more than 30 companies.
It is indeed on the right track, and he only needs to talk to Mr. McCord about which company he likes, and after negotiating the price, he decides whether to buy or not, so that the cash on the books of Freshwater Investment is almost used up, leaving only some to keep the company running, otherwise the cash is lying on the account, and he has to pay interest to investors, which is not cost-effective by any means.
As early as the beginning of the year, he felt that this year was a more important year, and at that time he had already thought about investing a lot of money, which made the entire Wall Street dumbfounded, they didn't believe that Ye Dongqing could cross multiple industries and find so many potential stocks at the same time, many people were waiting to see the joke......