The Old Factory Street was extraordinarily bustling over the weekend.
Electric scooters buzzed through, weaving in and out of the gaps in the crowd.
Fang Cheng led a middle-aged man with black-framed glasses into the tubular building, climbing the cement stairs.
This man's last name was Liu, he was a senior designer at a well-known architectural firm in East Capital.
"Mr. Fang, I've checked the relevant information. This building is over thirty years old."
Designer Liu adjusted his glasses on the bridge of his nose, his gaze sweeping over the overhead black wires that were intertwined like a spider's web in the corridor:
"If you want a complete renovation, aside from the surface repainting, the most crucial part is that the water and electricity pipeline must be completely redone. Especially the drainage pipes; the cast iron ones have mostly deteriorated and all need to be replaced with high-quality PVC pipes."
