Chapter 1502: The Wish of the Whole City
Yin Jun's design is certainly more than just a convention and exhibition center and a hotel.
He also designed five office buildings and high-end serviced apartments around the perimeter.
It's just that the hotel stands out the most, and it's the highest.
Unlike Singapore's 55-storey buildings, Hong Kong will have a 118-storey International Commerce Centre (ICC) with a height of nearly 500 meters in the future.
The tallest hotel in Hong Kong is on the 103-118th floors of the International Commerce Centre.
It's The Ritz-Carlton.
Although it doesn't occupy a single building, the gimmick of the tallest hotel, as well as the invincible view, are the selling points of the Ritz-Carlton.
In this case, the 55-storey hotel, in the Marina Bay area of Wan Chai, is nothing at all, and may be hidden by the surrounding high-rise buildings in the future.
But building too high, with too many floors, would also be a waste.
Behind the original convention and exhibition center, the New World Seaview Hotel is 31 floors and the Grand Hyatt Hotel is 25 floors.
As a five-star hotel, the configuration of 852 rooms and 575 suites is completely sufficient.
However, Yin Jun felt that it would be no problem to double the height of his hotel to 60 or even 70 floors.
The reason is simple.
Grand Hyatt Hotel and Seaview Hotel are just some of the dozens of five-star hotels in Xiangjiang.
Yin Jun, a high-end hotel that imitates Jinsha Hotel, is destined to be the only one in Xiangjiang.
As long as you do it to the extreme, then you don't have to worry about occupancy, don't worry about whether it's vacant.
Because people who are high-end consumers will definitely choose you, you will have the most and best high-end customers.
It is a little secret that the industry knows that high-end hotels are the most profitable.
For example, the most famous Peninsula Hotel and Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Hong Kong, even after 2012, after the sharp decline in mainland tourists in Hong Kong, the occupancy rate exceeded 90%, and they made a lot of money every year.
They rely on their own super high reputation, and they don't have to worry about no customers coming to stay and spend.
Yin Jun's hotel is even more unique than these two, so there is plenty of confidence.
And Yin Jun will definitely not engage in the practice of "the twenty or thirty floors below are office buildings, and the upper ones are hotels", which is too low-end.
It is necessary to have three hotel buildings full of hotel facilities, which is magnificent enough and worthy of the title of the first in Xiangjiang.
"Sister, you are very familiar with Deng Lianru, the director of the Trade Development Bureau, right?" waited until Le Yiling digested the information brought by these drawings, and the young man asked.
"Not bad. Le Yiling was so smart that she immediately understood, "You are the idea of hitting the land of the Trade Development Bureau? You are showing these drawings to Deng Lianru?"
"Yes!"
Yin Jun smiled.
The full name of the HKTDC is called the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, which is a semi-official organization.
Its main function is to take the merchants of Xiangjiang to participate in this and that exhibition, to promote various products of Xiangjiang, and to expand contacts......
Many factories and companies in Heung Kong have appeared overseas through this means, and the results have been very good.
They are non-profit quasi-government organizations, so they only rely on holding various events and charging small commissions to manufacturers to maintain their operations and small profits.
The current HKTDC secretary, Tang Lianru, is only 43 years old this year and was originally a director of Swire & Co.
She sat in this position, but it was very stressful.
Because the director of the HKTDC in front of her, Jian Yueqiang, is a well-known big man, not only the British knight, but also has a very good relationship with the former Governor MacLehose, and is MacLehose's think tank - the Independent Commission Against Corruption back then, which was finalized by the two in a villa in Scotland.
In the position of director of the HKTDC, Jian Yueqiang has achieved remarkable results, and the economic development of Hong Kong in the past ten years, all kinds of small electronic commodities, plastic products and other products are sold all over the world, and he has a contribution to the HKTDC.
Therefore, Deng Lianru, who took over his position, must have been compared by others.
Originally, Xiangjiang's economy was not very good now, and trade was plummeting, so Deng Lianru was even more stressed.
Therefore, Deng Lianru came to visit Le Yiling before taking office, and after officially taking office in April, she asked Le Yiling to go out for dinner several times in a row.
The reason why Deng Lianru wooed Le Yiling is very simple.
The largest conglomerate in Hong Kong is the Kirin Group.
The cultural industry created by Qilin Culture has long been the signboard of Xiangjiang.
At every trade exhibition, the brand of Qilin culture is always the loudest, and the exhibits and achievements are also the most, and it also brings the most honor to Xiangjiang.
When people look at the brand of Qilin Culture, they will excitedly say, "Oh, it turns out that the comics (toys) I like are from them!"
Not to mention Yin Jun's three branches in the mainland, which have now gradually come to the forefront.
For example, in several exhibitions this year, Kirin Electronics Company brought out the tape recorder, although the quality is not as good as that of Japan and South Korea, but the price is cheap, the design is novel, and it still has some orders from underdeveloped countries.
The various music tapes produced by the Kirin Record Factory are also known for their cheap prices and qualified sound effects, and now Kylin Records no longer makes music tapes in Japan and South Korea, but all of them are made in the mainland.
And then the production line in the mainland, in addition to supplying the mainland market, they are also doing it in the whole Asian market, because the cost is reduced, and the circulation is very large, so the profit is very high.
The instant noodles of the Kirin instant noodle factory and the braised beef noodles produced by the factory, although they have only been put into the market in the past two months, but they have been highly evaluated at various exhibitions, and they are known as better than those in Japan, and the taste is very in line with the taste of the people - the thousands of packs of samples cooked each time are all eaten, which is a clear proof.
Now it has only been two months, and orders for braised beef noodles have been pouring in, at least Deng Lianru knows that Xiangjiang's 7-11, Parknshop Supermarket and Wellcome Supermarket have placed tens of millions of orders.
These can be regarded as the enterprises of Xiangjiang and the pride of Xiangjiang.
If Deng Lianru and the Kirin Group don't have a good relationship, people don't go to these exhibitions and can do one by themselves.
With the overall advantages of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, the publicity of the Kirin Group can save a lot of heart, and it can also be backed by a big tree to enjoy the shade.
Moreover, the new director of the HKTDC is decisive and concise, and Le Yiling is also optimistic about her future.
Therefore, the two of them, who are both strong women, have not yet reached an agreement on public affairs, but their relationship is not bad in private.
However, Le Yiling never had the idea of the land in the hands of the HKTDC.
That's a long story.
As the economy of Hong Kong flourishes, there is a need for many symbols that can represent a city, as well as some buildings that stand out.
The former Director of the HKTDC, Kan Yuet-keung, strongly suggested that Hong Kong should have a permanent landmark exhibition venue, which could not only meet the needs of Hong Kong's foreign trade, but also become a kind of landmark for Hong Kong.
Jian Yueqiang is MacLehose's best friend, and what he said is very reasonable, so MacLehose has always cared about this matter, and before leaving, he even deliberately greeted the people below, which can be regarded as confirming this place.
It is not common for people to go to tea and cool in Xiangjiang, not to mention that MacLehose still has so much prestige.
Therefore, even after a year or two, and this matter has not been written into the government's constitution, the political department and the land management department have all admitted it.
As long as the HKTDC has a good and tangible development plan, then the land can be acquired.
And this land is not ordinary island land, but on the seaside, to be precise, in the newly reclaimed area of Wan Chai, which belongs to the prime location of the prime location.
Last year, a lot of people approached the HKTDC and wanted to work with them to develop the land.
But none of their plans satisfied Jian Yueqiang, coupled with the sudden downturn in the economy of Xiangjiang, the number of people asking about it decreased sharply, so until Jian Yueqiang left, the land was not applied for by the HKTDC.
Deng Lianru has been in office for about half a year, and there are still people who ask about this land, but the really powerful real estate developers are waiting.
After all, this land area is very large, and if you want to make a landmark building, then the investment must be very large, at least 1500 million or 600 million yuan.
If one is not careful, maybe all the net worth will fall into it.
No matter how good a project is, as long as it is too dangerous, it is not suitable for investment.
Le Yiling has little interest in real estate, even if Yin Jun bought a 200-hectare house in Tin Shui Wai this year, he has to wait two years before starting development, and there is no rush at all.
Now that the Kirin Group has made great achievements in entertainment, it has time to develop more comic peripheral products of "Kylin Weekly", and it has made an unknown number of hundreds of millions of dollars, which is much less risky than real estate.
So in this treasure land in Wan Chai, Le Yiling did not think about the Kirin Group to fight for it.
She didn't expect that Yin Jun had already set her sights on this.
If it is simply to compete for the project of the exhibition hall, Le Yiling is not very willing, but seeing this hotel full of beauty, Le Yiling is tempted at once.
A large group must always have its own landmark buildings in order to be considered famous.
In the past, Le Yiling felt that the headquarters of Kirin Group at the foot of Liufu Mountain was enough in terms of area and practical functions, but it was not grand enough.
The practicality of the headquarters of the Kirin Group is greater than the ornamentality, which does not reflect the momentum of the entire group and cannot highlight the status of the top three group companies in Hong Kong.
If the Kirin Group built this super beautiful hotel in Victoria Harbour, it would feel completely different.
Maybe you can move your headquarters there, with the hotel, overlooking Victoria Bay.
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