Roskov, book 23 by Wolak Geoff

Author:Wolak, Geoff
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-10-02T00:00:00+00:00

Over at the property business I called a planned meeting, men and lady soon settled, new man Smythe in on the meeting.

I faced our EU lady, Emanuele. ‘How’s Belfast?’

‘More small companies now apply for EU loans, and we receive the monthly statements from them - how many people employed. And this new mobile phone business has created many jobs.’

I turned my head a notch to my Northern Ireland guy. ‘How’s your progress there?’

‘We bought shares in the mobile phone company and then made a loan in, and now they’ve greatly accelerated their building programme, cable laying and towers, four towers up around the outskirts of Belfast, tall buildings being used in the city – not least our towers in the docks.

‘They now employ a hundred and sixty men in the province, and that will double each month as men are trained. We partnered with a mobile phone shop in Belfast, and six weeks from now Belfast may have a signal.’

‘And a signal for the rest of the province?’ I asked.

‘Eighteen months, at least, it’s a lot of work. And the Government and the EU have handed them money for the towers.’

I nodded. ‘Good, some progress to go with their indoor plumbing. And house buying and building?’

‘Many run-down old houses are now ours, rented out, several old Belfast buildings converted to apartments, several old buildings converted to Phase One pensioner places.

‘We now own and operate three hundred rental houses, and we’re building a total of almost six hundred new houses around the province, most to be sold not rented.’

‘And the shit old concrete towers?’

‘Several have been condemned, and we’re assisting to move residents out. They know that new apartment blocks will be built, but just two floors.’

‘Soft prison there?’

‘Will be ready around February and could hold two hundred people, and it will have a medical bay.’

‘Our extra tower blocks?’

‘Will be ready next September they think, plenty of demand.’

‘Good. Any stats from over there?’

‘Unemployment is at a record low, wages are rising, and inflation is ticking upwards. House prices are up at least ten percent across the board, more in some areas.’

‘And the mood?’

‘Is better,’ he commended, Emanuele nodding. ‘The referendum on the Peace Accord was seventy-two percent in favour, higher than expected, Blair will sign it next year.’

‘Peace in our time,’ I quipped. I faced Glen, ‘Your mate at the Belfast computer outlet?’

‘Is busy, and tired, but they’re selling or renting out a shit load of computers.’

‘Wine bars there?’

‘Seven running, six planned, all busy, no trouble yet.’

‘Your mate in London?’

‘Also tired, and also busy, a shit load of fifty-percent mortgages placed, one deal being twenty million quid - prestigious offices. He’s doing a lot of posh apartments as well.

‘His first street, we now have six buildings and sixty apartments renovated, all full on day one, good rents collected. Around the corner we got a shitty building and we renovated the apartments, now all full but at a modest rent.

‘First café is open on the ground floor of one of our buildings, new pharmacy next door, new shop next to it.

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