Michael Hershman is the CEO of the Soloviev Group, a company hoping to build a casino and park where many wouldn’t expect: next to the United Nations.
But Hershman is less interested in discussing the nuts and bolts of the site – the 8,000 permanent jobs it would potentially generate, the residential towers that would overlook the East River, the casino itself – than in an attraction he said would define the $10 billion project: a Museum of Freedom and Democracy, at a time when he said democracy is under threat.
“ I just don’t think some of the folks in this country are appreciative enough of what we have,” Hershman told Gothamist in an interview.
