Billionaire Developer and Philanthropist Eli Broad Dies: 'He Saw the Potential in Each of Us'
Eli Broad.Photo: GettyBillionaire developer and philanthropist Eli Broad has died. He was 87.The entrepreneur died at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Friday “after a long illness,” Suzi Emmerling, a spokeswoman for the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation,confirmedto the Associated Press.“As a businessman Eli saw around corners, as a philanthropist he saw the problems in the world and tried to fix them, as a citizen he saw the possibility in our shared community, and as a husband, father and friend he saw the potential in each of us,” Gerun Riley, president of The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, toldThe New York TimesFriday....