"Um?"
Xiang Yang looked at Manager Huang in confusion.
"Manager Huang, excuse me for being blunt, but the best-located commodity building in Qinglongwan right now is that department store. It may also be the only commodity building in Qinglongwan that is located right in the center of the tourist area," said Xiang Yang.
Manager Huang smiled bitterly and said, "In the short term, there is the Binhai Hotel next to it, the food city is upstairs, and the food street is behind it. If we open a KFC store there, business will be very bleak."
"After sending people to investigate, the company provided me with a site selection plan and arranged for professionals to investigate and evaluate the comprehensive market in Qinglongwan."
"After comprehensive analysis, the company decided not to open a store in a department store in order to ensure sufficient foot traffic around the selected store."
"In addition, there should usually be parking spaces at the entrance of our restaurant to facilitate customers to park. It is obviously not convenient at the department store," said Manager Huang.
Xiang Yang pondered for a moment, and combined with what Li Chao had said before at Qinglongwan, that as long as no restaurant was opened on the fourth floor of the department store, Xiang Yang could do whatever he wanted with it, Xiang Yang immediately realized that there was an upper floor of the Qinglongwan department store, which should be a special food city.
The Qinglongwan Department Store is indeed not suitable for opening a KFC store.
Next to the Qinglongwan Department Store is the Binhai Hotel, a seaside concept hotel that was built at great expense. It has a full range of delicious food, and KFC is definitely not able to compete with those wealthy high-end customers.
As for ordinary tourists with tight finances, although they will not go to the Binhai Hotel to spend money, there is a food court upstairs in the department store.
There are a wide variety of snacks in the food city, and the overall price is definitely not higher than KFC. Add in some special dishes, and KFC will definitely not be able to compete.
However, Xiang Yang was still a little confused. "Manager Huang, what is the food street you are talking about? Why have I never heard of it?"
“The food street is where you live. Although no one has opened any restaurants now, we all worked our way up in the shopping malls. It’s a street close to the tourist area. What else can we do in the future if not food?” said Zhang Qicheng.
Xiang Yang heard this and thought carefully for a moment. Indeed, the villagers did not have any other skills, but everyone knew how to cook. With so many villagers, each with one or several storefronts near the tourist area, it would be strange if they did not open restaurants in the future.
"So that's the place you've set your eyes on?" Xiang Yang asked.
"There are three places. One is the entrance of the Ocean Exhibition Hall, one is the entrance and exit of the bus station, and one is the entrance of the Internet celebrity incubation center. All three places will do, please." Manager Huang requested.
Xiang Yang heard this and shook his head without even thinking: "It's no use for you to come to me for this matter. I can't help you with this matter."
Are you kidding? The Internet celebrity incubation center and the sea exhibition hall where the Mongol warship is stored are both projects planned by Longcheng. They are willing to locate the project in Qinglongwan, which is a strong support for Qinglongwan. How could Xiang Yang agree to build a commercial district next to it
As for the entrance to the bus station, although the Qinglongwan road was originally built with Xiang Yang's own funds, Longcheng later funded its expansion. The location of the bus station was also planned by Longcheng. There are basically no buildings there now, which is also unsuitable.
"Mr. Xiang, we are willing to pay more rent." Manager Huang said immediately.
As he spoke, Manager Huang took out a red box from his arms, handed it to Xiang Yang, and said, "This is a small gift from me to you, Mr. Xiang. Regardless of whether this thing succeeds or not, let's just consider it as us making friends."
Xiang Yang opened the box and saw a ring made of pure gold, inlaid with a piece of transparent and clear emerald green jade.
Xiang Yang snapped the box shut and said, "Take back the gift. It's not that I don't want to help, nor is it about the rent. Let me put it bluntly. There can't be any commercial buildings around the Internet Celebrity Incubation Center and the Ocean Exhibition Hall. The bus station will indeed be used, but that's not something I can decide. I have to discuss it with the village. It's even possible that the village will rent out or sell the entire piece of land."
Zhang Qicheng said with a smile: "It's impossible to sell it in bulk. Now everyone knows the price of that piece of land. If the price is low, even if your village agrees, Huhai Town will not approve it. If the price is high, no one will dare to gamble. After all, there are only about 300 tourists in Qinglongwan every day."
Xiang Yang nodded. Indeed, the bus station involved a large number of rural residential land and large tracts of farmland. Even if it needed to be dealt with, it would definitely be handled by the village itself.
Before Xiang Yang developed Qinglongwan, he contracted a large area of coastline in Qinglongwan.
But now that Qinglongwan has developed, it is not so easy to contract other land.
"In short, Manager Huang, you should take back the ring. I am not very interested in gold. I cannot give you an accurate answer about what the situation is like next to the bus station in a short time." Xiang Yang said.
"There is no reason to take back a gift that has been given away. I said that this is a small gift from me personally to you, Mr. Xiang. Just consider it as us becoming friends." Manager Huang said with a smile.
Zhang Qicheng also chimed in, "Mr. Xiang, you should accept this ring. Although it is not a valuable item, jadeite of this quality is still rare."
"Jadeite?" Xiang Yang raised his eyebrows. "I thought it was jade. Could this kind of jadeite without a single color be ice glutinous?"
Xiang Yang didn't foolishly ask if it was pure ice type.
Ice jade is too valuable, and Xiang Yang doesn't believe that the other party would give him such a good thing.
The ice-glutinous jade refers to the texture of the jade material. The ice type generally refers to the visible internal interwoven fiber structure. The microcrystalline part is indistinguishable to the naked eye. It has good transparency, and the cotton and structure are clearly distinct. The ice type is relatively popular, but the appearance of the ice-glutinous type is equally good.
"Hey, you even know about ice-glutinous jade?" Zhang Qicheng said with a smile, "It seems that you, Brother Xiang, are also familiar with jadeite."
Xiang Yang shook his head and said, "I've only heard that if the texture of jade is fine, it means the species is older or old, and if the crystals are coarse and loose, it is called tender. Because jade is a combination of multiple crystals, the species are vividly divided into glass species, ice species, egg white species, glutinous species, bean species, oily green species, etc."
Among these types, the ice type is the most famous, and even people who don’t know much about this industry have heard of it. But in fact, among these types, the glass type is the best, the bean type is the worst, and anything below the bean type is too bad to be desirable. The fine glutinous type and above are pretty good.
Most of the materials used to make B-grade goods are coarse bean or lower grade.