[AGL] a Chinese mystery

[Madeleine Villatorro]

Why not house the homeless in some of those apartments? That would be a
useful solution. MADELEINE

On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 1:33 PM Frances Morey <frances.morey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Wow! That looks like the Pente tower in Austin. I believe it is!
> There is an international site, Emporis.com, that keeps an inventory of
> all highrise buildings worldwide. It might be on there already. They have
> lots of details about the construction of such buildings, the names of the
> architect, the builder, and lots more stuff.
> The Chinese built a huge pipe factory here in Corpus Christi. Yes, money
> is being spent as though there are no borders. I heard that with all the
> profits pouring into Mexico due to our misbegotten War on Drugs that they
> are experiencing full employment in Mexico. I heard this from a woman who
> was recently back from an extended stay in Mexico.
> Best,
> Frances
>
> On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 1:21 PM Michael Eisenstadt <eisenstadt0 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> a Chinese friend told me that the 45 storey skyscraper pictured here was
>> built by/is owned by Chinese money. it was finished about 5 months ago
>> and to this date has NO tenants. Note the absence of balcony furniture
>> on all the hundreds of balconies. Driving by recently I saw 2 window
>> washers hanging half-way up the building like house flies. I suspect the
>> architect sold them a bill of goods - imagine the acres of glass to keep
>> clean for the tenants if there ever are any.
>>
>> My theory is that it is another example of Chinese money fleeing abroad
>> - Chinese business men who have made fortunes in the usual Chinese way -
>> by every crooked means possible which is SOP in China - yet know that
>> their freedom hangs by a thread: fall out of favor with the local
>> government crooks to the machinations of your rivals and you will spend
>> the rest of your life in prison for corrupt biz practices at best,
>> assuming that you are not executed and your organs harvested. Put the
>> ownership of the apartments in the name of your children and make every
>> effort to expatriate them from Mother China. Note to self: find out the
>> street address of the building and look it up in the property ownership
>> rolls of the county which is online. See if the owners of individual
>> units are listed whether by name or in the name of a trust.
>>
>
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