[AGL] a Chinese mystery

[Byron Allen Black]

Good thing there are no earthquakes in central Texas. HA, there are
earthquakes *everywhere*. I remember a few years back where they had a
sharp tremor in Saskatchewan, which has to be about the most geological
boring part of north America. This structure could have been built like any
other decent normal tower but they had to have that offset. Go figure.

Fracking is also supposed to give frequent surprises from down below. What,
800 a year in some parts of Oklahoma? Waking up those torpid Okies.


On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 at 01:33, 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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