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Podcast: Beyond The Fog Radio
Episode: Redeveloping Van Ness and SoMa w/ Oz Erickson
Description: Oz Erickson is the Founder and Chairman of the Emerald Fund, a San Francisco-based real estate development company dedicated to transforming entire neighborhoods. Since 1979, Erickson and his company have turned abandoned warehouses into livable communities and commercial office buildings into residential homes, totaling over 8 thousand housing units.
Oz also sits on several non-profit boards, allowing him to approach his work from a humanitarian point of view. He understands deeply what it takes to build something in our city, and cannot imagine doing anything else in life. Though his humility and honesty have gotten him far, Erickson’s true success lies in...