Twenty-Four
“But if you sell the building, our regular clients, the ones who we rely on for the business’s foundation, will get annoyed and confused that they have to find a new place.”
“That’s what GPS is for, Gabriel,” my father says. “That real estate is worth a fortune, way more than the cumulative value of the business itself.”
They’ve been arguing about this for an hour. The lawyer has detailed reports about what we could get for the building, as well as the card of his most trusted real estate agent (read: his wife) ready to list it as soon as Monday.
“It’ll sell within a week, I can almost promise you—in this area of downtown? If you were interested in redeveloping it yourselves, you could easily get the zoning permission and remodel the existing structure into high-end loft ho
