1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 230 New York Business District
"Boss, Stuart rejected our offer."

When Fan Daze held a family meeting, Kony brought some bad news to Liang Yao.

When Stewart opened the first store in New York in 1848, the Irish owner of the original Broadway Textile Store became one of New York's richest men.

Of course, before opening a shopping mall, Stuart had merged hundreds of small shops, and only then did he have the ability to open a shopping mall.

"Give him a chance and he won't hit."

Liang Yao was also very helpless, since he couldn't cooperate, he could only be a competitor.

Liang Yao put a map of downtown New York on the walnut desk and unfolded it. His gaze fell on the junction of West 42nd Street and Broadway in Manhattan on the map.

This place has a name familiar to people all over the world in later generations: Times Square in New York.

"You want to buy land in New York? Do you also want to be a real estate tycoon?"

Kony guessed Liang Yao's thoughts.

"Building a shopping mall always requires land. Isn't this land owned by Backhouse?"

Liang Yao took out a pencil from the pen holder on the table, and drew a circle at the intersection of West 42nd Street and Broadway Avenue in Hatton, where he planned to acquire a piece of land to build a New York commercial district.

Even if the Van Daze family fails to cooperate with him in the end, he himself will be a business district in New York and make it a city card of New York.

This is not because he wants to contribute to the urban construction of New York, but to earn dollars in the pockets of New Yorkers.

The gigantic pie of the retail market is so big, it's just too tempting.

"You're right, this piece of land belongs to Backhouse, and it's one of Backhouse's most fancy land." Coney said with a smile, "Buckhouse once said that this place will become the entire New York City in the near future." , and even the commercial center of the world.

Of course, there is also a lot of bragging in it. The most important land for Backhouse and Old Astor is the Fifth Avenue between 48th Street and 57th Street in New York. They will definitely not sell this land.

However, for the area drawn on your map, as long as the price can impress Backhouse, he is still willing to sell it. "

"Then he really has bright eyes." Liang Yao sighed.

These billionaires in the United States have good eyesight in their professional fields.

The rent of shops on the street of Fifth Avenue between 48th Street and 57th Street in New York is the highest rent of shops in the world in later generations, not one of them.

"Do you also think this piece of land has great potential for appreciation?" Kony looked at the circle drawn by Liang Yao on the map of downtown New York.

Not only does it have great potential, but as long as New York does not weaken and hold this piece of land, children and grandchildren can live a happy life of lying down and collecting rent.

Half of the top ten commercial streets with the most expensive rents in the world are located in New York. Even when Japan’s real estate bubble was at its worst, Tokyo failed to shake the status of the New York business district.

After Japan's real estate bubble burst, only Ginza in Tokyo could barely make it into the top ten.

The old Astor was fond of real estate, and it made sense for his descendants to be deeply involved in the real estate industry.

"How much does it cost to take this piece of land?" Liang Yao asked Coney.

Kony grew up in New York. Even if he doesn't know the specific low prices in Manhattan, he at least has a general understanding.

"I don't know the specific land price of the circle you drew, but the land price in Manhattan's business district will not be less than 20 U.S. dollars per acre."

US$20 per acre of land is indeed a sky-high price. Liang Yao bought a 50-acre piece of land along the Hudson River in the suburbs of New York to build a manor, and it only cost less than US$10. The price is less than $2000.

"So expensive?"

Although he was mentally prepared, Liang Yao was still a little surprised after hearing the price.Land prices in New York were already so high in this era.

"It wasn't so expensive, it's all thanks to the Astor family." Coney laughed, "Before the old Astor entered New York real estate, although the land in Manhattan was expensive, the unit price per acre would not exceed 10 US dollars , At that time, the land price in New York was not so exaggerated.”

"How many deposits has the Bank of America taken?"

Bank of America's New York branch has been open for more than a month, and Liang Yao wants to know how much deposits the New York branch has absorbed in the past month or so.

"Thanks to your good reputation and high prestige, New Yorkers are particularly confident in your bank, which has attracted deposits of more than 200 million US dollars in more than a month." Kony said after thinking for a while.

Bank of America has already absorbed $200 million in deposits, so it seems that as long as you bite the bullet, you can still buy a piece of land in the Manhattan business district.

In the evening, Fan Daze brought news to Liang Yao. He persuaded other family members to cooperate with Liang Yao at the family meeting.

This is good news for Liang Yao.

With the resource channels of the Van Datze family in the industry and the reputation accumulated by the three generations of the Van Datze family in New York, it will be much easier to build a New York shopping center and a New York business district.

"It's still early, let's go to the New York shopping mall. Stewart rejected my olive branch. We are going to open a shopping mall in New York. Stewart will be our biggest opponent."

Liang Yao put away the map on the walnut desk and said that he had asked Kony to inspect Stuart's shopping mall, but he hadn't seen the first large shopping mall in New York with his own eyes.

He has not seen the extent to which Stuart has made the shopping mall, and he is also full of curiosity about Stuart's mall.

"Are you going to the mall? I'm going too."

Elizabeth said very excitedly when she heard that Liang Yao was going to the shopping mall.

"Let's go."

Liang Yao agreed, asked the servant to prepare the carriage, and then drove to Stuart's shopping center.

Stewart's Mall is located on Fifth Avenue between 48th Street and 57th Street in New York, one of the most prosperous areas in New York.

Of course, the rent is also the most expensive. According to the information Liang Yao learned, Stuart originally planned to acquire a small piece of land from Buckhouse.

It's a pity that Stuart's bid failed to impress Backhouse, and Backhouse himself didn't really want to sell the land, so Stuart had to give up in the end.The only option is to rent a piece of land from Buckhouse and build the first large shopping mall in the United States on the land.

"This mall is really big."

After arriving at Fifth Avenue between 48th Street and 57th Street in New York, Van Dazer looked at the luxurious marble-decorated building in front of him and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

This brand new shopping mall is even more luxurious than New York City's municipal building from the outside.

Competing with such an opponent made Fan Daze feel a little apprehensive.

It was obviously not the first time for Elizabeth to come here, and she was no stranger to shopping malls.

"Have you ever seen a mall bigger than Stewart Mall before?"

Coney looked at Liang Yao with a calm face, and asked curiously.

"I have seen."

Liang Yao said calmly.

The Stewart Shopping Center in front of us is very magnificent in the eyes of natives like Van Daze and Kony.

But in Liang Yaoyan's eyes, this shopping mall is not as good as the shopping malls in some counties in the Pearl River Delta region in later generations.

Of course, it would be unfair to compare a modern mall 171 years later with a mall from 1851.

In the middle of the 19th century, it was already remarkable to be able to invent the business model of urban shopping malls.

The model of Stewart's shopping mall in New York was later learned by major cities all over the world.

"It turns out that the commerce and trade of the Qing Dynasty are so developed." Kony couldn't help but sighed, "No wonder you are so calm, it turns out that you are well-informed. When I saw this shopping mall for the first time, I was shocked and said no. Speak up."

Liang Yao just smiled and said nothing more.

(End of this chapter)