Grand Island is located in the northwest corner of New York State, in the middle of the Niagara River between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie.
Accompanied by his real estate agent, Yang Jing flew to the river island from Buffalo by helicopter.
Grand Island is the fourth largest island in New York State, located in the middle of the Niagara River and surrounded by the Niagara River on all sides. Strawberry Island at the southernmost tip of Grand Island divides the Niagara River into two channels, embracing Grand Island like two arms.
The island is not very large, only 33.3 square kilometers in area. It belongs to Erie County and faces Canada across the West Niagara River.
Grand Island is only seven kilometers away from the famous Niagara Falls. When the weather is fine, you can even vaguely see the rising mist above Niagara Falls.
If you take a yacht from Grand Island and go upstream, you can enjoy all four of the Great Lakes except Lake Ontario at once.
At first, Yang Jing didn’t know that there was such a small island next to Niagara Falls. He also accidentally found a real estate brochure and learned that there was such a paradise island in the middle of the Niagara River.
Yang Jing knew that Gege loved natural scenery, and she loved Niagara Falls very much. She had been here twice, but still felt unsatisfied.
In this case, it would be better to just buy a property next to the waterfall. In the future, you can bring your princess here for vacation. After enjoying the waterfall, you can also go boating on the four major lakes.
Although it is impossible to reach Lake Ontario directly via the Niagara River, there is a waterway in Tonawanda, a small town east of Grand Island, that connects to Rochester, more than 100 kilometers to the east. This waterway starts from the Niagara River and eventually connects to the Genesee River that flows into Lake Ontario.
In other words, although you can't enter Lake Ontario via Niagara Falls by yacht, you can eventually reach the middle of Lake Ontario through this waterway. If you want to continue moving forward, you can enter the St. Lawrence River from the east end of Lake Ontario and directly reach the Atlantic Ocean...
In other words, theoretically speaking, as long as Yang Jing and Gege are willing, they can set out from Grand Island, take their own yacht to first travel around the Great Lakes, then travel around the world, and finally return to Grand Island.
This is obviously a pretty good place, and the population on the island is not very large. The main industry is animal husbandry, and it has the charm of a paradise.
If the New York State government had not refused to sell the island, Yang Jing would have really wanted to buy it directly.
However, although the island is not for sale as a whole, the ranches, farms and real estate on the island can be sold. Therefore, Yang Jing contacted the real estate agent according to the contact number marked on the brochure.
"Mr. Smith, this is Alfred Manor, which includes a main building with a construction area of 13,000 square feet and four ancillary buildings, with a total construction area of 29,000 square feet. In addition, the total area of the manor is 35 acres. Outside the manor is a 150-acre farm and a 120-acre vineyard." Seeing Yang Jing staring at the farm below for a long time, the real estate agent explained the situation of the manor at the right time.
Yang Jing turned his head and asked, "Alfred? Is he Irene Dupont's son or his great-grandson, Alfred Irene Dupont?"
"Sir, it's Alfred Irene du Pont, one of the three brothers who revived the du Pont business. He is also the great-grandson of Irene du Pont." The real estate agent answered respectfully.
When meeting with the real estate agent before coming, the real estate agent, in addition to promoting the properties of their real estate company, also promoted a manor that was for sale to Yang Jing.
This manor is Alfred Manor, which is the property of the DuPont family and was built in 1918. Because there were two Alfreds in the history of the DuPont family, Yang Jing asked such a question. However, the question Yang Jing asked was a bit wrong. Although there were two Alfreds in the history of the DuPont family, there was a difference of several decades between them. Old Alfred died as early as the 19th century, but this manor was built in 1918. It was obviously built by Little Alfred.
However, when Yang Jing asked this, the real estate agent did not dare to say anything else, because after meeting Yang Jing and when Yang Jing expressed interest in Alfred Manor, the real estate agent immediately contacted the DuPont family and said that someone was interested in purchasing the Alfred Manor on Grand Island.
The DuPont family immediately looked up Cole Smith, and found out that Cole Smith was actually the big boss behind the recently popular KY Investment Fund.
It just so happens that KY Investment Fund is a major shareholder in two companies controlled by the DuPont family, one is Dow Chemical, and the other is General Motors, which is jointly controlled with the Morgan family.
Therefore, the man from the DuPont family immediately instructed the real estate agent to make sure to treat Mr. Cole Smith well.
Seeing that his big client valued Cole Smith so much, the savvy real estate agent immediately realized that the middle-aged man in front of him was definitely not ordinary.
Alfred Manor is located in the northwest corner of Grand Island, so across the more than 500-meter-wide river, you can see the small island called "Navy Island" in the middle of the Niagara River. Yang Jing asked the real estate agent: "Is the island for sale?"
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