[AGL] 301 West Ave. Austin TX 78701

[Charles Loving]

*Don't the Chinese build cities in places where there are no people? I saw
a video of one in Mongolia, airport, hotels, apartments, roads,
infrastructure, restaurants, statues, and no people. And there are other
ones too. Sort of build it and they will come?*

On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 10:51 PM Kdoyle <kdoyle1 at austin.rr.com> wrote:

>
> Funny story about the 60 minutes show, Mike. Glad to know there 's one
> good lawyer.
>
> When I say “Jenga Tower” do you know which building I am referring to?
>
> Yes sometimes it seems we are just another Banana Republic where big
> business and big money can come in and exploit whatever they want.. But I
> don't know if that is the case with this building.
>
> I always  do like to know the names of the folks behind something and to
> be able to call them if I want to. Ha! Increasingly real estate is held by
> acronymic anonymous no-name persons.
>
>
> On Jul 2, 2019, at 3:26 PM, Michael Eisenstadt <mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Kathy,
>
> Thanks for your sleuthing. The name of the building is as yet unknown.
> Best guess is that it is 45 or more storeys. Have you played Jenga? The
> entiy Cvi-Ecc, LLC you unearthed owns 3d & West. 60 Minutes did a
> fascinating report on how foreign money on the run can be legally set up as
> an interlocing number of trusts who own trusts who own other trusts etc.
> effectively concealing the identity of the African dictator or whoever's
> money it is. It's legal to do so. The 60 Minutes did a piece on this scam.
> They secretly taped many law office settings with complicit lawyers only
> too happy for the work. Delicious footage. For a counterweight they filmed
> a lawyer saying he didn't do that kind of work.
>
> Mike
>
> On 7/2/2019 1:29 PM, Kdoyle wrote:
>
> Michael does that building have a name? is it the one that looks like a
> Jenga tower?
> its very hard to find information about them. when i found them on Wikki
> and clicked “key People” no one showed up but they gave another business(
> Cvi- Ecc) as a partner. see link below. still no names.
> "3rd & West Lp Overview
>
> 3rd & West Lp filed as a *Foreign Limited Partnership (LP)* in the *State
> of Texas* on Tuesday, May 13, 2014 and is approximately five years old,
> as recorded in documents filed with *Texas Secretary of State*. A
> corporate filing is called a foreign filing when an existing corporate
> entity files in a state other than the state they originally filed in. This
> does not necessarily mean that they are from outside the United States.”
>
> https://www.corporationwiki.com/p/2g4a05/cvi-ecc-llc#people
>
>
>
>
> On Jul 2, 2019, at 1:06 PM, Michael Eisenstadt <mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I looked up the giant 45+ storey skyscraper on 3d and West Ave in the
> Austin Real Estate Properties database (
> http://propaccess.traviscad.org/clientdb/SearchResults.aspx). See also
> the attached spread sheet about the property.
>
> Apparently all the apartments are still owned by 3d and West LP (limited
> partners) and the property assessments are a joke, some as low as $40,000,
> about 1/5 to 1/10th of the appraised value of downtown condo apartments. As
> tax assessments are based on actual prices paid for comparable properties,
> presumably not a one of the apartments has ever been sold. As I said, as
> far as I can see, none of the apartments have residents as is indicated by
> the lack of furniture on any of the 100s of balconies. No lights on at
> night. All windows show drawn curtains. Perhaps the owner(s)' notion is to
> place a store of value offshore from China just in case the SHTF over
> there. If I understood the tax database, the overall value of the building
> is stated to be $3,999,999 which is the bigest joke of all. If that is the
> case, the property tax on the building is derisory and there are no other
> costs than to keep the electricity turned on. As I mentioned, a Chinese
> friend of mine told me it was Chinese money that built it.
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Charlie Loving
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