George Koster

George has worked in the areas of green building, green finance, affordable workforce housing and real estate auctions as well as his extensive community organizing over the past seven years. He has extensive real estate services knowledge through his startup and co-operation of a Century 21 real estate brokerage in North Lake Tahoe.

George is a Certified Green Building Professional through Build It Green, he serves on Build it Green’s Green Point Rater and Green Realtor Council Advisory Committees, and he is a member of the Green Affordable Housing Coalition, a joint project of Build It Green and Bay Area Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC).

George worked with Sustainable Capital, LLC, Modern Earth Finance, NorBank and Princeton Capital in the development and launch of a green mortgage product. George has developed a network of subject matter experts to leverage the various tax credit programs for the development of affordable housing, job creation.  Additionally George and his network of experts provides real estate services in the adaptive reuse of historic buildings, as well as Brownfield redevelopment for the reuse of land for mixed-use green development and community revitalization.  In addition to this expertise in green building, George is also a graduate of the Presidio Graduate School in Sustainable Management.

As a community volunteer in recent years, George launched the Squaw Valley Museum Foundation and secured seed funding for the development of an official Squaw Valley Olympic Museum. George and his wife Carol were Awarded the Citizen’s of year in 2008 for their extensive work in the North Lake Tahoe community to revitalize and reinvent the community.  The first Affordable Housing Project is being developed in North Lake Tahoe through George’s efforts in tandem with Domus Development and Placer County Redevelopment Agency.

Prior to his work in the green economy and sustainability, George was Senior Manager of Business Development and one of the founding architects of building brand and community at eBay Inc. He planned and implemented some of eBay’s most successful entertainment marketing partnerships, including eBay’s sponsorship of PBS’s Antiques Road show and development of entertainment marketing auction programs with Warner Bros., Court TV, Cartoon Network, History Channel, Universal Studios, National Geographic Channel, Fox and PBS Video.