"Wonderful, really wonderful."
In response to Barron's praise, Viscount Bute smiled:
"So our King's Cross renovation plan will definitely start this year, and it is expected that the first phase of the renovation plan will be completed in a year. Our plan is to divide the area into two districts, north and south, with the Regent River as the boundary. The two districts will be mainly office and residential. A large number of commercial and service industries will be set up on the ground floor of the buildings to make them well accessible. In the end, these areas will have functions such as office, retail, residential, education, theater, hotel, and comprehensive transportation. Each functional sector will interact and complement each other."
Just like the original gas tank area, it will be transformed into three high-end residences and will be close to the future Central Saint Martins College, forming a high-end residential area there - including the two plots originally held by the Kent family, which will also be built in coordination, and these areas will be connected by green spaces and parks.
The land exchanged from Central Saint Martins College is located on the south bank of the Regent River, close to King's Cross Station, where a high-end office building and commercial area will be built.
The three plots of land that Barron later purchased are all located in the office area and will also be built according to the plan of Argent Real Estate Group.
This time, Barron came to see Viscount Bute, not only to ask about the minor troubles encountered by Argent Real Estate Group in its planning for King's Cross, but also about matters concerning the Cavendish Hotel Group.
The first phase of the King's Cross renovation project will be completed in a year. By then, several buildings will be built on one side of King's Cross Station to be used as office buildings.
Barron plans to rent one of the buildings and use it as the Cavendish Hotel in King's Cross.
Currently, the Cavendish Hotel Group's luxury hotel in Chelsea has begun renovation and decoration, which is expected to be completed in two months.
When Barron went to the Cavendish Hotel, he told the hotel manager that there would be a transition plan for the hotel.
His transition plan is to first prepare to complete the renovation of the new luxury hotel, the Devonshire (Chelsea) Hotel, and then transfer the staff of the Cavendish Hotel in Soho to this luxury hotel after training.
At that time, the original building will be demolished and a new building will be rebuilt on the site of the original Cavendish Hotel in Soho.
The new building in Soho will be designed to be around 30 stories, half of which will be used for the renovated Cavendish (Soho) Hotel and the other half will be temporarily used by the Independent Newspaper Company.
The Independent Newspaper Building in Canary Wharf will be demolished and a new building will be built.
Once the building is completed, the Independent Newspaper will move back.
After the Cavendish Hotel in King's Cross opens, there will be three hotels in London belonging to the Cavendish Hotel Group, including the Devonshire luxury hotel and two four-star Cavendish hotels.
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"Welcome aboard, Mr. Nutt."
"I think it's a big challenge, but I like it."
As Barron shook hands with the 40-year-old man named Nat Ford in front of him, it also meant that he had completed this recruitment.
After registering the copyright of "WhereWolf", Baron also established Halo Company to manage and promote the copyright he owns.
He has now placed the copyrights of "Werewolf" and "Downton Abbey" into Halo. The next step is to find a suitable manager for the company.
To this end, Barron specifically found a headhunting company to search across Europe. His requirement was that the other party must have relatively senior experience in copyright operations, and it would be even better if they had work experience in the gaming or media fields.
Eventually Nat Ford came into Barron's sight.
Nat Ford previously worked for Endemol, a copyright giant headquartered in the Netherlands, which owns the copyrights of programs including very well-known variety shows such as "Big Brother", "Deal or No Deal" and "Go Go Squid".
If you haven't heard of the others, then "Brave Forward" is the originator of programs like "Happy Forward" in China.
"Hello everyone, I am a little demon from the Qiang tribe. Qiang Qiang Qiang Qiang Qiang Qiang..."
Well, back to the topic, Nat Ford was previously in charge of copyright promotion and acquisition at Endemol's London branch. What's more interesting is that before joining Endemol, he also worked for a long-established French board game company. He can be said to be the candidate who best meets Barron's requirements among the targets found by the headhunting company.
So today, Barron met with the other party.
After learning that Barron would hand over the management of Halo, the company that owns the copyrights to "Downton Abbey" and "Werewolf", to him, and hoped to promote the two and other copyrights held in the future globally, Nat Ford finally accepted the job.
Although Nat became the manager of Halo Company, he was the only employee in the company...
Next, he needs to form a team himself...
But this was not a big problem for Nat. According to him, he was confident that he could poach some of his former subordinates... uh, directly poach a team from Endemol's London branch. Baron was a little embarrassed about it.
So he readily agreed and let Nat do it.
"I think the first thing we should do now is to find a factory as soon as possible to cooperate with us to launch the Werewolf game package. Although you have customized 100 sets of high-end game packages from Smythson, these can only be used to promote the game among the upper class. If you want to have a broad mass base, you still need to provide cheaper games. Well, I suggest that the price of the regular version of the game should be 29.9 pounds. At present, most board games like Werewolf are priced within this price."
As someone who once worked for an established board game company, Nat immediately found the key point to promote Werewolf:
"And Your Highness, I can see that Werewolf is suitable for more than 5 players, preferably more than 9 players. It also requires the role of 'Judge'. Although the judge does not participate in the game, it is crucial to the game. Therefore, in addition to playing at parties, this game is also very suitable for promotion in board game clubs. There will be special people who can act as judges for players, thus avoiding the situation where players cannot experience the game because of acting as judges."
"I have actually thought about this, Mr. Ford. The first thing you need to do now is to build up a team for Halo. Then, find an artist to complete the design of the character cards for the regular version of Werewolf. Smythson's designs will only be used in high-end game gift packs."
Listening to Barron's words, Nat nodded:
"That's no problem, Your Highness. I already know a board game artist in London. In fact, I am also a board game enthusiast, so I guarantee that I can complete the design of the regular version of Werewolf in the shortest possible time and start production."