The property developer behind a startling proposal to build a Trump Tower on the Gold Coast is a businessman who has gone bankrupt twice, the ABC can reveal.
David Young of Altus Property Group this week stunned the Australian property scene by unveiling he had signed a deal with the Trump Organization for a 340-metre tall, six-star luxury complex in the heart of Surfers Paradise.
He even posted a photograph on LinkedIn of him shaking hands with Trump Organization’s Eric Trump, the second son of US President Donald Trump, after signing an agreement at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Valentine’s Day.
Altus CEO David Young with Trump Origanization Executive Vice President Eric Trump. (Supplied: Altus Property Group)
He described the…