If someone was serious about this, I expect there’s a good chance they could raise $10-$50m for it.
A donor could treat it as an investment with ~0% real yield. The main cost is the donor would be the opportunity cost of the investment returns that could have been earned otherwise (~5% per year?). This means it’s ~20x cheaper than making a donation of the same amount, so equivalent to a donation of only $0.5 − 2.5m.
If you were also happy to run it for a social purpose without the expectation of profit, then you should be able to outbid Waterstones etc.
If someone was serious about this, I expect there’s a good chance they could raise $10-$50m for it.
A donor could treat it as an investment with ~0% real yield. The main cost is the donor would be the opportunity cost of the investment returns that could have been earned otherwise (~5% per year?). This means it’s ~20x cheaper than making a donation of the same amount, so equivalent to a donation of only $0.5 − 2.5m.
If you were also happy to run it for a social purpose without the expectation of profit, then you should be able to outbid Waterstones etc.