Rebirth 79: I opened a bank in the United States

Chapter 1012 Prerequisites for Acquiring the Concert Hall
Find a weekend, Carter went to Ohio.

After all, living in Maryland is much more convenient than Georgia in the southeast corner of the United States or California in the southwest corner.Especially when you go to those old industrial states, even if you drive, it will not take a few hours.

The Cincinnati Music Hall is located in the Upper Rhine District of Cincinnati, on the street No. 1241 Elm Street, which is the name of the street that reminds Carter.When he was at Yale, Carter's most frequent path was Elm Street.

Although Carter also understands that in every city in the United States, the street called Elm Street is almost the same as BJ Road in China. It can be called a bad street name, and almost every city has it.

But the orchestra and concert hall that I want to buy happen to be on this street. From a metaphysical point of view, it seems a bit predestined!
With this kind of emotion, the subsequent negotiation process will be much easier!

It is now 1991. At this time, the division of the Soviet Union and the East has not yet been completed. Even with the start of the Gulf War, a large amount of federal funds have been invested in foreign wars.In terms of domestic economic construction in the United States, it can almost be described as no investment!
Originally, after 87, everyone's life was not easy, and now there are two more battles, which simply makes the poor American people even worse.The citizens have less money, and the life of the Cincinnati city government is also sad.

Hearing that a rich owner wants to buy the Cincinnati Music Hall, the attitude of the Cincinnati City Government is quite enthusiastic.

"With regard to the sale of the Cincinnati Music Hall, we have only one condition: permission, and at a preferential contract price, to lease the concert hall to the Cincinnati Pop Orchestra for rehearsals and performances. This orchestra is a cultural card of our city. Since 1895, the orchestra In the past 100 years, they have never left this concert hall. It can be said that they know every corner of that landmark concert hall better than any of us!"

In the conference room of the Cincinnati City Hall, the deputy mayor who is in charge of negotiating the sale of the concert hall proposed the preconditions for the sale of the concert hall.It can be said that when this condition was put forward, Rick's idea of ​​using the concert hall to threaten the orchestra to agree to the acquisition went bankrupt directly.

People are not stupid!
In the entire city of Cincinnati, in the field of music, the most beautiful star is the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra.Because of their existence, the status of this concert hall in the hearts of music fans has gradually been forged.With frequent music fans and traffic, this concert hall can also be rented out to hold some fashion shows, etc. during the time when there is no orchestra performing
Even when visiting the concert hall, Carter also noticed that the side hall of this concert hall has even been converted into a convention and exhibition center and an expo center completely used for exhibitions.They are all concert halls in name, but the real music performances, opera performances, etc. will not use all of this building.

As far as the building itself is concerned, it is not a bad asset.For the sale of the concert hall, although the attitude of the Cincinnati city government is enthusiastic, it has not reached the point of eagerness to sell.

If the price is right and it won't affect the city's planning and layout, then selling the future income rights in exchange for a liquid fund to improve people's livelihood and increase voter support is of course very good.But if Carter's idea of ​​buying it will damage the image and planning of the city, then I'm sorry, I won't sell it!

"I agree! Mr. Braga can rest assured that I want to buy this concert hall out of pure love for music. I am a musician by training, of course, I only played in the orchestra during college, and the Cincinnati Orchestra Compared with the musicians in the troupe, I am the younger brother. But our enthusiasm for music is exactly the same!"

"I will not drive them out, and I will even give them the concert hall for free. Not only that, but I will also bring more changes here, such as the upgrade of musical instruments? I can take the rare musical instruments in my collection Come out and let the guest masters use it, so as to bring the audience more extreme audio-visual enjoyment. Although with the contacts of the masters, you can definitely borrow them if you want, but it’s not as convenient as mine, isn’t it?”

Carter smiled and said slowly.

He did have plans to give the concert hall to the orchestra for free, anyway, he would eat the orchestra in the end.It's free here, wouldn't it be good to get the money back from the ticket later? !
As for the conditions for acquiring the orchestra, Carter already had a rough plan in mind.

But now, we still have to win the concert hall first!
"My collection is not that big, but it should be quite a lot. I have the most violins. After all, I learned this myself. I basically have everything from Guarneri to Stradivarius. Especially Guarneri, at the beginning of my piano learning, I used It’s Guarneri’s violin. Maybe because I’m used to its tone, I basically saw Guarneri’s violin for sale in the later period, so I’ll buy it until now.”

"From 1626 to 1762, I have basically collected the works of the five top luthiers who have run through the three generations of the Guarneri family. If I succeed in buying this concert hall, I will notify my assistant and more Keep an eye out for Stradivari violins that appear at auctions, Stradivari are more suitable for use in concert halls than Guarnelli."

When I visited the concert hall just now, the other party's narration when introducing the acoustic design of the concert hall sounded clear and logical.Why is the acoustic design of the concert hall world-renowned, what is the use of Portland cement concrete instead of steel structures to build this building under the auspices of architect Theodore Thomas and structural expert Christian Gilke, what The entire stone walls of the building are lined with acoustic isolation materials that absorb noise and prevent echoes for more extreme acoustics and more
Hearing this, Carter was stunned for a moment. In terms of music, Carter thought that he had at most passed the level of a ruthless staff translator, barely reaching the threshold of a musician.You can't even call yourself a performer, let alone study the propagation of sound and the further things such as acoustic design.

But when talking about the collection, Carter became interested.He has to understand these things. After all, at critical moments, these things can not only save taxes, but also become his "backup hidden energy source".For example, if one day I collapsed, I took out one of them and sold it, maybe it became the capital for my comeback? !
Even if you don’t consider these, if you want to use it to save taxes, it is reasonable to report the specific number. In other words, when you face the IRS inspection, you must be able to say something to drive up the number. Its value to allow the other party to recognize it? !
Just talking, Carter realized that the other party had nothing to say.It seems that the introduction they just made was just reading the information. They don't know these violins, or even which luthier they are, such as Guarneri Del Gesu or Antonio Stradiva. How good are the pianos in different periods, or how attractive they are to top musicians!

It seems that this trick of using masterpieces to go fishing still has to be used for orchestras, for these government employees:
"Let's talk about money, how much are you going to sell for?"

(End of this chapter)