![]() Sure, the globe’s largest corporations may eventually lure away some of his students, he conceded, but “we’ll make them donate 2 percent of their incomes for their lifetimes,” to help fund the project. Revel, which cost $2.4 billion to build and opened just two years ago, closed September 2 after failing to draw bids at a bankruptcy auction. “We want people who will cure the world of its hiccups,” said Straub in an interview, his ideas for Atlantic City spilling out in his rapid-fire manner. The businessman, who owns the Palm Beach Polo Golf and Country Club, would then convert the complex into a university where the best and brightest young minds from across the world could work on the big issues of the day. First, he would add a second tower to the 57-story structure, completing the original vision of the casino-hotel’s developers. ![]() Glenn Straub’s plan is ambitious as it is high-minded. (Reuters) - A Florida developer who made a $90 million offer for Atlantic City’s shuttered Revel Casino wants to use the site to help end world hunger, cancer, and resolve other pressing issues like nuclear waste storage.
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