Chapter 584 [Central's second team! 】

  Wu Guangyao’s motorcade came to the Hutchison Building, his mouth was slightly tilted, and his smile was clear;

  Because I was in the heart of Central, I gained the second building chain.

  Taking Snow Factory Street as the north-south boundary, the Wu family has two chains of buildings in the east and west in the heart of Central;

The first building chain (west): It consists of six buildings located on Queen’s Road, Des Voeux Road, and Connaught Road, the Everbright Building, Chinese Building, Yangtze River Building on Queen’s Road, Lane Crawford Building on Des Voeux Road, and Connaught Road Huanqiu Building and Cheung Kong Building on the road;

  The six existing buildings are not the ultimate form of the first building chain. There is also one high-altitude development right on the Central Subway Station (not yet tendered), and the future Exchange Square three buildings (not yet tendered);

  After all these ten buildings are in the bag, it is the first chain of buildings in the heart of Central.

  Second Building Chain (East): The chain of buildings east of Ice Factory Street is a chain of buildings that have been connected unknowingly in recent years;

First of all, the Hilton Hotel acquired by Hutchison Whampoa (the US-owned company Yonggao). The location of the Hilton Hotel is very mysterious, because it is sandwiched between the previous HSBC Building and the Bank of China Building, which is the previous Cheung Kong Headquarters. Mansion (Li Chaoren's lair);

Secondly, the Hutchison Building (Harcourt Road) located to the north of the Bank of China Tower (just in front of the sea). The Hutchison Building was delivered to use in 1975 and is 22 stories high. Excellent, but the height is only 22 floors, while the Bank of China Building has 70 floors. So from the Victoria Harbour, the Hutchison Building looks like a dwarf.

  Finally, the Hong Kong Club Building located diagonally in front of HSBC, Cheung Kong Holdings owns 48% of the equity.

  The second building chain in the heart of Central has only three buildings at present, which is also not the final form;

  If the high-altitude development right above the Metro Admiralty Station does not participate in the bidding (let it to the Chinese Five Tigers, and vote for the Central Station.)

  The second section of Admiralty Station, Wu Guangyao must be able to obtain it as the savior;

It turned out that the second section of Admiralty was originally invested by a consortium consisting of Zheng Yutong (New Development Real Estate), Chen Zengxi (Hang Lung Real Estate), Liao Chongxing, etc., but the land premium was 1.8 billion Hong Kong dollars; however, because of its prime location, the approval procedures were cumbersome. Procrastination and procrastination stubbornly dragged on to the Sino-British negotiations;

  During the Sino-British negotiations, the land market and stock market on Hong Kong Island experienced large and very rare declines (larger declines than in 1967);

  As a result, the bank refused to lend money, and the government refused to reduce the price (to make up for the land price). A business of ‘earning the Geng’ (earning a certain amount) just went wrong;

  The new consortium could not get out the money, and the Hong Kong government had to take it back. After the Sino-British negotiations, it was acquired by a consortium composed of Japanese capital, Nanyang, and Xinhe;

  The two buildings of the famous Benda Center (renamed Lippo Center in the 21st century) are part of the rights and interests of this tender section.

  Some people say that Chen Zengxi, Zheng Yutong and others “caught the deer but don’t know how to shed their horns.” This consortium was probably the only one who gave up after winning the bid.

  While Wu Guangyao has already thought about it, it is better to take the bid from several people by then than to return it to the Hong Kong government!

  According to this calculation, the Wu family’s second building chain in the heart of Central has at least five Grade A office buildings;

  Respectively, two buildings in the second section of the Hilton Hotel (the former headquarter of Cheung Kong Industrial), Hutchison Building, Hong Kong Club Building, and Admiralty (two buildings in the former Benda Center);

  Among the five buildings, the Hong Kong Club Building is currently under construction and will be a 41-story building after completion;

  Although Cheung Kong Holdings has only 48% equity, Hong Kong will be a loose organization and the building will still be managed by Cheung Kong Holdings.

  And if the two buildings of Hilton Hotel and Hutchison Building are rebuilt, we have to talk about the famous ‘Feng Shui War’ in Hong Kong in the past life;

  The protagonists of this Hong Kong feng shui war in the previous life are: Bank of China Tower, HSBC Tower, Cheung Kong Industrial Building (Li Chaoren’s Lair)

   Among the three protagonists, HSBC is the first to take root in Central, and it has carefully created a powerful Feng Shui bureau by using the beast lion, the hollow in the lobby, etc., and the company has achieved stable development for many years;

  In 1978, HSBC pushed the HSBC Building to rebuild. The fourth-generation HSBC Building was completed in 1985, which is the oil rig building;

  But with the arrival of the "spoiler" Bank of China Tower, HSBC couldn't laugh anymore.

  In 1982, the Bank of China invited the top Chinese architect I.M.Pei to design and then build the Bank of China Tower.

From the outside, the architectural style of the Bank of China Building is unique. It is composed of several huge triangles. From a distance, it looks like a sword with three blades rising from the ground, and these three are shining brightly. The blade points to the British Army Garrison camp, the Governor's House and the HSBC Bank respectively.

  It’s nothing more than the military camp, but it is rumored that after the completion of the Bank of China Building, the then Governor Youde died of a heart attack (the only one who died in office) at the point where the blade was pointed, and the two following Governors were in poor health;

  On the other hand, HSBC’s performance suddenly declined, and its stock price plummeted, and its headquarters in the United Kingdom were greatly affected.

  So, HSBC, facing the blade of the Bank of China Tower, is not calm.

  In the second year, two huge steel cannons were erected on the roof of the HSBC Bank, taking the meaning of "fire to counter gold" in the five elements to deal with the blade of the Bank of China Tower;

  It’s amazing that HSBC’s stock price has stabilized and its performance has continued to rise again.

At the end of the 1990s, the Yangtze River Group Center was located between the Bank of China Tower and the "swords and guns" of the HSBC Bank. Finally, at the suggestion of a Feng Shui master, the building resembled a shield on all sides. It avoided the relative position of the "swords and guns" and adopted full bullet-proof glass, which was cautious, but fortunately, it remained intact after it was built.

  In this life, it's Wu Guangyao's turn to break this game!

  As the saying goes, there is no room for two tigers in a mountain unless there is one male and one female.

  Everyone is a wealthy owner, gathering in a small place in Central, Hong Kong, it is natural that there will be a lot of battles.

  The Hilton Hotel is sandwiched between the HSBC and the Bank of China Tower. If the redevelopment is not good, take a look at Feng Shui, I am afraid that it will have some impact on the Wu family (worry), although it is only an industry of Hutchison Bank!

  At the same time, the Hutchison Building was planned to have only 22 floors in the era of Chi Dezun, which is a waste of good land (in front of the Bank of China);

  So in the 1990s or the beginning of the 21st century, it must be rebuilt;

  The reconstruction of the two buildings is closely related to the Bank of China Tower!

  The Bank of China Tower is 70 stories high and the HSBC Bank is 46 stories high. How high should the Hilton Hotel be rebuilt?

  The previous headquarter building of Yangtze River Center was 60 stories high, and Li Chaoren did not dare to surpass the Bank of China Tower;

  So, does Wu Guangyao dare?

  Surely dare!

  Even if the reconstruction of the Hilton Hotel is not higher than 70 floors, the reconstruction of Hutchison Building will also be higher than 70 floors;

  One of the two buildings must be taller than the Bank of China Tower!

  It's about the Feng Shui of the Wu family, so I can only do my part!

  (End of this chapter)