[AGL] a Chinese mystery

[Frances Morey]

Ha! All the better to end it all? I get vertigo just looking at it.
Yet if it were to get taken over by low-cost-housing-for-the-elderly I'd be
first in line to live there.
Wait a minute, I may no longer qualify.
Best,
Frances

On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 8:24 AM Madeleine Villatorro <catzen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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