Weekend Interview: CA South Founder And CEO Meg Epstein This series gets into the heads of the decision-makers of CRE, the people shaping the industry by setting investment strategy, workplace design, diversity initiatives and more. Meg Epstein launched development firm CA South in 2016, when she was 28 years old. She started out buying residential projects in Nashville in 2014 and since founding CA South has expanded to industrial, residential, office and mixed-use development across Tennessee. The firm has $1B under development across 10 projects topping 1M SF. Still, CA South's primary focus has remained on Nashville, in particular reimagining residential projects along the waterfront to appeal to the influx of people to Nashville from the coasts. Epstein can bring her own experience to bear in this strategy; she grew up in California and began her development career there before moving to Nashville. She is driven to build unique buildings with a focus on creative architecture and said too many institutional investors “crank out the same unimaginative buildings over and over.” Though her work keeps her busy on land, Epstein also loves to take to the skies and seas through her private pilot's license and bareboat charter sailing certification. The following has been lightly edited for clarity and style. 
Bisnow: Tell us about your leadership philosophy and what experiences, words of advice or mentors shaped it along the way. Epstein: My leadership philosophy can be summed up as wanting to create a “super meritocracy.” That means we reward results alone and not how many hours you work, popularity or how…  Read the full story here. | 
