A Voss and Pike Casefile: The Early Days

Problems, Problems

Section 17: Cormac Dell

17

Cormac Dell

Harborline Group's headquarters was a converted warehouse with exposed brick, a barista, and a scale model of the Global Quarter lit like a jewel. Cormac Dell was forty-five, in chinos, and pitched in complete, friendly paragraphs.

"Saltmarsh is three hundred years of people arriving," he said. "All we're doing is giving arrival a postcode." On the wall, a board of investors: Harborline Capital Partners, Blackwood Holdings, and, under COMMUNITY & CULTURAL PARTNERS, the Fairweather Foundation.

"Marian objected to the Quarter," you said.

"Marian objected to the idea that culture is something you can put in a building. I think it's the best thing you can put in a building." He smiled. "Would you like the prospectus?"