Chapter 741 A 'bad place' where you can make a fortune
After completing the work of connecting emotionally and maintaining connections, Long Zhan devoted himself to formal work and went to the location chosen by Tucker.
The standard given to Tucker at the beginning of Dragon War was to take Colorado Island in San Diego as a point and extend a standard driving distance of 5 hours to the surrounding area.
Then select a suitable site within the selected circular range.
Building a base on an offshore island has inconvenient transportation, encounters typhoons from time to time, and the environment is very harsh. The semicircle of the sea is directly lost.
There is only one piece of land left!
The land Tucker selected did meet all the requirements for Dragon War.
It is located in a small town northeast of San Diego, far away from the city. It can reach Coronado Island in less than 4 hours at a speed of 70 kilometers per hour.
There is already a relatively complete transportation system around, so there is no need to spend extra money to build roads.
The residents of the town and the local government also support the construction of a large training ground here and agree to provide various conveniences in the construction procedures.
The only drawback is that the land price is too expensive.
There seems to be the same phenomenon around all developed coastal cities around the world, that is, land prices are much higher than elsewhere.
A "famous city" on the West Coast like San Diego falls right into this category.
Even the piece of land Tucker chose is more than 300 kilometers away from the nearest coastline, and the location is actually mountainous.
It stands to reason that in such a remote mountain village, it is impossible to calculate based on city prices, or even use agricultural prices in the mountains.
The price is definitely lower than the average agricultural price in the United States.
That is not as good as $4,100 per acre!
But when Long Zhan, as the representative of Jushen Company, negotiated with the owner of the land, the owner of the land actually gave a very high quotation of US dollars per acre.
Nearly 4 times the average price.
The headquarters of Jushen Company is near the state capital, and the land price is less than half of his.
In this remote mountain village, the price is indeed a bit exaggerated.
The comprehensive training center that Long Zhan wants to build has a minimum starting area of 3,000 acres, and at this price it will cost US$45 million.
Use 45 million U.S. dollars, exchanged for nearly 300 million yuan, to buy a barren mountain where birds don’t poop?
Long Zhan just wants to say...
Are you crazy about money?
Or do you think I'm a fool?
Private sales of land in the United States are allowed, and domestic land has basically been divided up.
The landowner's quotation means everything.
Even if the local people and the local government agree and can provide the best discounts during construction, it will not affect the landowner's decision at all.
After two days of bargaining with Long Zhan, the final price did not change much.
That’s a loss of US$1,000 per acre.
For this sinister landowner who wants to slaughter himself like a pig and make a fortune from this piece of land, no matter how satisfied Long Zhan is with this piece of land, he can only turn it into a second choice.
There were still two plots of land that had been selected, and Long Zhan decided to look at those two plots before making the final decision.
Long Zhan’s second trip came to North Carolina, where there is also a hometown that Long Zhan is familiar with, “Camp LeJieen” where he spent many years of his Marine Corps career.
This is the base of the 2nd Marine Division, 2nd Expeditionary Force, and 2nd Marine Logistics Regiment.
There are also some small bases of other three armed forces and a National Guard camp nearby.
After seeing such a good location in San Diego, with various famous military bases nearby, when I came here, I felt that the quality had dropped by more than one level.
Long Zhan thought it was okay here before, so he asked Tucker to send people here to look for it.
But now that his vision has been sharpened, Long Zhan has no interest in this place at all. He doesn't even bother to look at the location, let alone ask about the price.
There are too few military bases nearby, and there is simply no room for Dragon War's large-scale comprehensive training center.
If you really want to build a training base here, it would be equivalent to building a swimming pool and then letting a small crucian carp swim in it.
It's impossible to make money!
Long Zhan, who had the ambition to build a 3,000-acre training ground, took the earliest flight without looking back and arrived at the last and most familiar place——
Virginia!
In the past four years or so, Long Zhan's life circle has basically never left Beach City, so he shouldn't be too familiar with this area.
Naturally, I have the greatest expectations for this place.
If we can really buy a piece of land at a qualified price and build a comprehensive training center here, the various benefits it will bring can even far exceed those in San Diego.
Let’s not mention anything else.
Just because Long Zhan now has an official establishment of DG and belongs to the elite of the 6th special service group of the black team, he can get a contract from DG.
As long as Long Zhan does his best to operate it, even if the entire new training camp of the green team is moved to the training center, it is not impossible.
After all, DG itself does not have its own training ground, and all training resources are competed with the East Coast SEALs.
Even for many of these projects, you have to take a plane or car to train at bases in other cities.
If there is a standard training center nearby that can provide "one-stop" training venue services for the green team, the green team itself will definitely be willing to move in.
Under the expectation of this strong favorable impression, and the disgust of the black-hearted landowners in California asking for exorbitant prices.
Long Zhan didn't go home even when he arrived at his house. He immediately arrived at the land Tucker selected and inspected it from all angles.
pity.
After nearly two days of inspection, Long Zhan was not very satisfied with this place.
Not satisfied with the price or location!
In order to find the most perfect address in his mind, Long Zhan decided to take matters into his own hands. In the next period of time, he devoted himself wholeheartedly to the work of site selection.
This morning lasted three full days!
In the end, all the hard work paid off, and Long Zhan finally found the perfect spot.
The most primitive and most effective method adopted by Dragon War is a map measuring ruler in the left hand and a compass kettle in the right hand, driving into the mountains in person to check out the points on site.
The method of stepping on points is not aimless, but centered around three points.
The first point is the place that Dragon War is most familiar with - Beach City, where SEAL Teams 2, 4, 8, and 10 are stationed, as well as many other units such as DG, and there is a large demand for training venues.
The other is that Long Zhan has already made a trip, but he is not satisfied with the spot Tucker chose, which is his former hometown of Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
I went to his northern side before, but now I went to his southern side.
The third point is the Army's Fort Bragg.
Located outside Fayetteville, it houses the Army Special Operations Command, Delta Force, the 82nd Airborne Division, and more.
These are special forces-level entities and must have a large demand for training venues.
besides.
Washington, D.C., the CIA's "Farm" agent training center and the hub of federal military and law enforcement agencies, is also nearby.
The agents, spies, police, armed law enforcement forces, etc. of these two agencies all need to find venues for training.
The market space is very large, and you are not afraid of running out of business.
Long Zhan selected the three points he selected, and each point was circled on the map with a radius of 5 hours' drive.
Then connect all these circles and find the point where they meet in the middle.
This point suddenly says York Town!
"This is it."
Long Zhan, who had been running around a lot, saw this perfect location and excitedly slapped his hand on the map, making a decisive decision.
The reason for such a decisive choice is that the location is perfect and there are a lot of military bases around it, so there is no need to worry about lack of customers.
The most important thing is that this place is located on the edge of a swamp, a veritable "bad land".
There is no way to use the swampland as a farm, let alone a forest farm, or to develop and build buildings, and there are no waste resources nearby.
For this kind of land that has no value, profit-seeking capitalists will definitely not develop it.
As long as there is no capital entering this market, it is destined that the land price will never be very high and will most likely be lower than the average agricultural land price.
on the contrary.
This land does not have any development value, which does not mean that this land has no use value.
Nothing is absolute waste. As long as it finds the direction that suits it, the original waste can immediately become a treasure.
This uninhabited swamp edge with sparsely populated areas is a perfect fit for a military base.
It can save a lot of trouble in terms of security!
Long Zhan has set up the training center here. Let’s not talk about whether it can make a lot of money after opening. At least it can save a lot of money when acquiring the land in the first step.
After painstaking efforts to choose a perfect place, Long Zhan drove straight through the night to a small town with only a few thousand people in order to avoid long nights and dreams.