Chapter 97 Resolving the Urgent Problem
Feng Qiang and Xin Qin had already found out the arrangements for the event and the heads of the companies invited to participate.
The event, titled "Connecting and Jointly Building the CY District," focused on the committee's presentation of the CBD's eastward expansion plan. We hope that the influential businesses present will take a look at the plots and projects recently launched online. Most of these plots are commercial, not residential, and are large, with prices starting at over 100 million yuan.
Of course, there are some small plots that are more difficult to get, such as the large green parks and educational land that planning experts insisted on adding.
Companies that develop office buildings, hotels and large shopping malls naturally focus on commercial plots that can make money. As for the others, they just look at them unless the district has a strong match and forces them to "claim" a piece.
Lin Ruoyan calculated the funding needed for the future luxury housing project. She realized the remaining funds wouldn't be enough to buy hundreds of millions of dollars worth of commercial land and build a large commercial building. Purchasing land on this key development route and not developing it would certainly not meet the expectations of the CY District. So, she was just joining the crowd, exchanging business cards with other large corporate executives, and getting to know them. What if there were any potential opportunities for collaboration down the road?
The only thing that attracted her was the land for education.
Unfortunately, the district did not invite any education-related companies, and the district education bureau official became a supporting role, sitting alone in a corner with a sad face, out of tune with other business celebrities who were talking about building office buildings and large shopping malls.
Lin Ruoyan asked Feng Qiang to confirm that this person was indeed someone who had some say in the Education Bureau, and then she walked towards the man with the project site introduction map in her hand.
After a chat, Lin Ruoyan learned that this educational land was only rented, not sold, for a period of twenty years, with the option to renew it later. While the rent was cheaper than buying the land, it had to be used for educational purposes, such as building a school or a training base.
Nowadays, large enterprises have locations all over the country, and even the beautiful city of Beijing has its own corporate training centers. No one would set up a training base here, so to build a school, you need to have the ability or connections to run the school properly.
Large enterprises seem to be strong and have no shortage of resources, so it is possible to contact relevant education groups. The problem is that the development cycle is relatively long. It takes a long time from decision-making to final realization. It is considered fast to build a building in one year and enroll students the following year.
The Education Bureau official is worried about the assessment indicators at the end of this year.
This was not his personal assessment, but an assessment of the district's education system by the city, requiring the district to add some new private schools, or to upgrade and expand public schools to meet the number of students required.
District Cy's educational resources weren't as good as those in the core districts of D and X. While there were a few international and private schools, given the district's vast territory and large population, the average was nowhere near meeting this year's targets. They urgently needed to find a contractor for the educational land. It was already July, and they were eager to have the school building completed and enrolling students by September.
"Is there a teaching building on that plot of land?" Lin Ruoyan couldn't help but ask, thinking that if the building was renovated, it might be useful.
"No, the dilapidated buildings were demolished before, and now it's just leveled ground." The official replied dejectedly.
It is simply not realistic to build a building on flat ground in two months. Lin Ruoyan originally wanted to discuss whether she could rent the educational land for a long term, and then invest in building a school building and introduce teachers from Thomas International Education Group. However, she did not expect that the time required would be so tight.
So many of the companies here are in the real estate business, and everyone knows that building a building isn't something that can be done quickly. And without a school building, how can we enroll students? Is this a joke?
If this piece of land cannot be acquired, we will have to make arrangements for existing schools elsewhere, and the coordination of resources with public schools is actually more troublesome.
This official was gloomy, as even if someone rented the land, he wouldn't be happy. Furthermore, the heads of the major companies participating in the event clearly had no interest in educational land, so they could only force this piece of land onto someone else when other land was sold. However, forcing someone to build on a piece of land against their will wouldn't lead to rapid progress.
Lin Ruoyan took note of this matter and had a vague idea in her mind that it might be able to solve the urgent problem of the Education Bureau, and at the same time she would have a controllable way to spend money.
But she didn't dare to promise to take on this porcelain job on the spot. She left her contact information with the Education Bureau and just mentioned it briefly to a good friend from the district committee to pave the way.
She planned to first ask the professionals in the company and Thomas if they were interested. Only if the education group Thomas belonged to was willing to join in the effort would things be possible.
The next day, Lin Ruoyan rarely showed up at the company and called a meeting with the company's top executives.
The CEO's office was full of people, except for the driver and the receptionist, who didn't have to attend. The department directors, pens and notebooks in hand, waited solemnly for the boss to speak. The probation period was about to end. Was the boss planning to identify the unqualified individuals and clean up the team?
Lin Ruoyan had no idea that these employees were thinking about that matter. In fact, she had no intention of firing anyone. Now the labor cost is a fixed expense every month, and it would be troublesome to recalculate if someone was fired.
She started by introducing the educational land in the CY District and the difficulties faced by the Education Bureau, and proposed to cooperate with Thomas's education group to take over this project.
Without the design department having to speak, the director of the engineering department, Lao Jiao, jumped in first and intervened, saying, "The land is so vast, and we have 36 classes in both primary and secondary schools. Two months is too tight a timeframe. Even if we immediately start leveling the land and building bungalows, we won't be able to complete it that quickly. Without school buildings, we won't be able to enroll students, right?"
Zhao Xingxing from the Design Department also said, "Forget construction. It takes two months to get the green light for all the necessary procedures. Then we have to draw up plans and construction drawings. Education groups must have school building standards. They can't just build a bungalow casually."
Lin Ruoyan knew this was a difficult matter, otherwise she wouldn't have gathered everyone to discuss it. She asked Hua Mengmeng, "How many campuses does Thomas have in Beijing now, and how big are they?"
Hua Mengmeng had already investigated this clearly and introduced the situation of the international school in Beijing. Currently, there is only one campus in a large villa area in the suburbs near the airport in the north, covering all stages from kindergarten to high school. There are more than 400 students on campus, and the maximum capacity of the school building is only 700 to 800 people.
This was similar to Lin Ruoyan's impression of the school. She said calmly, "Don't worry, everyone. First, calculate the expected construction period and cost of building a school on this land as quickly as possible. I have my own way to deal with the time issue."
When everyone heard this, they were shocked. They thought, "Can the boss even change time? He's really amazing!"
However, if everyone only needs to estimate according to the normal time, then everything can still be discussed. There are ways to shorten the design and construction time. Several professional directors immediately began to estimate the project land.
Hua Mengmeng was puzzled and quietly asked her boss, "Boss Lin, is two months really enough?"
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