Chapter 24

            Five days later . . .

            Christopher and the VP of the architectural department had gone to Carlyle Enterprises to take a serious look at the building. According to Christopher, the building needed almost everything. It was thirty years out of date. The estimate was ninety million dollars. Christopher had padded the estimate because the plumbing was so old that it didn’t meet today’s building code. If they were going to renovate the building they were required by law to update the plumbing whether it was still worked or not. He had also taken the wiring into consideration.

            “I can’t believe he let it go this long,” Bruce said.

            “And I can’t